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[NSBound]

A chain harrow and a spike tooth harrow are two very different things. For a spike tooth harrow to do any smoothing, the worked/loose soil needs to be at least the depth of the spikes. More often than not, a chain harrow is much more useful when seeding a lawn.

Well, the yard has been tilled, bladed and will be tilled again once the manure gets delivered, so it'll have been worked to more than the depth of the spikes! Anyway, spikes down or spikes up, it is going to be given a go!!

 

[NSBound]

Well, the yard has been tilled, bladed and will be tilled again once the manure gets delivered, so it'll have been worked to more than the depth of the spikes! Anyway, spikes down or spikes up, it is going to be given a go!!

One more update - see attached pics of the manure, spreading of it, and then the harrow that I had to improvise a connection to the tractor for. I was surprised how well the spike harrow worked. I used only 3 of the 4 sections as it would have been 8 feet wide with the 4 sections and awkward to maneuver through some trees along one side of the yard. I did use it teeth down this time. Today I'll turn it over and drag it around teeth-up, and add fertilizer to the yard and then add the grass seed! The spikes didn't catch on roots at all, I had thought it might. And it popped out some good-sized rocks. I ended up chaining it to the trailer hitch ball on the drawbar and it worked out perfectly. So, never say never, or can't, or won't!!

The manure ended up not being 4-year old stuff - they figure it's more like 25-years old - it looked as broken down and composed as the stuff you get in plastic bags! I had dropped it around the yard with the FEL first, then tilled it in, and then did the harrow dragging. It brought EVEN MORE ROCKS to the surface which I had to keep jumping off the tractor to throw into the loader. Who says working a tractor isn't work??

 

[Scooby074]

Looking good. I had the same problem with the drag bringing rocks to the surface.... Sure is frustrating Near the end of it i was so tired of getting off to pick them up i just left the smaller ones there and picked them up after the seed was down and dragged.