Lift For Chain/Drag Harrow

[jeff9366]

BOOM POLE As Lift For Chain / Drag Harrow?

At age 69 years I do volunteer scut work in a small organic Blueberry patch, approximately 250 plants.

The 80 year old owner periodically runs a Tool Bar Cultivator and Chain Harrow (individually; not linked ) down the rows for organic weed control behind a Kubota BX.

It is too much for me to shake out debris from the Chain Harrow at the end of Blueberry rows.

The sole manufacturer of a Frame/Lift kit to convert a drag Chain Harrow to Three Point Lift is PRIEFERT. I am sure the PRIEFERT/ABI quality is good but the cost is $449 delivered, from any of several venders, for the 88 pound frame. Same price delivered to my Rural King stores for local pickup. (( Free local pickup may be available in Rural King stores closer to Texas.)) Frame does NOT include chains and other bits to suspend the Chain Harrow from the frame. Frame is just the Three Point Hitch components.

Priefert Lift for Chain Harrow Kits - PICHLB | eBay


I wonder if a Three Point Hitch Boom Pole could be used for provide Chain Harrow lift, stock or with simple modifications? Tractor is a Kubota BX with Cat 1 size Three Point Hitch
(( We have applications for a Boom Pole beside potentially lifting the Chain Harrow. ))

King Kutter 500 lbs. Lift Capacity Tractor Boom Pole

CountyLine Heavy-Duty Boom Pole - For Life Out Here Note center bracket with three attachment holes.

tractor boom pole - Google Search

I am zero as an engineer. I am hoping T-B-N readers with design/improvisation talent will help us out.

 

[Egon]

Add two short booms and you are all set.

 

[jeff9366]

EGON: I don't get it. Please expand on your suggestion.

 

[Egon]

EGON: I don't get it. Please expand on your suggestion.

[video]http://www.farm-king.com/Region-US/landscaping/drag_harrow/dh_options.php[/video]

 

[Spindifferent]

Could you disconnect it from the 3 point and then lift it with a loader configured with grab hooks? (Assuming that the BX has a loader and that the harrow is not longer than the lift height of the loader).

While more work, this may be the most economical solution.

 

[snonut]

I use a 3-point carryall from TSC hooked to a spike harrow with short chains and beam clamps. Works great

 

[MF283]

Jeff, don't see why the boom pole wouldn't work. I'm assuming your pulling harrow off the hitch?

Ronnie

 

[jeff9366]

I have sent this to travis@everythingattachments.com, who has been helped me size several ETA implements:

"I know ETA is not producing Boom Poles at this time but consider this:

If one or two flat plates were welded to the boom pole, pre-drilled for U-bolts, it would be easy to mount/dismount a spreader pipe as wide as a Chain Harrow, with grab hooks on the ends of spreader pipe for mounting and adjusting spreader-to-Drag Harrow chain length."

 

[jeff9366]

Jeff, don't see why the boom pole wouldn't work. I'm assuming your pulling harrow off the hitch?

Yes. Pull Ring on Chain Harrow goes over trailer ball on Handi Hitch. We could easily pull the Chain Harrow from the center drawbar, rather than the Handi Hitch, freeing the Three Point Hitch for a Boom Pole.

Any suggestions on rigging?

 

[jeff9366]

Could you disconnect it from the 3 point and then lift it with a loader configured with grab hooks? (Assuming that the BX has a loader and that the harrow is not longer than the lift height of the loader).

While more work, this may be the most economical solution.

At our ages of 69 years and 80 years, backing the tractor down the rows, with the Chain Harrow attached to the FEL is not practical. Inevitably the Blueberry plants would be run over.
(( We have BB plant run over incidents with the tractor going forward, occasionally. ))

Neither of us retain the strength to lift the debris laden Chain Harrow often, to shake out detritus.

 

[jeff9366]

Re: Lift For Chain Harrow / Drag Harrow

I use a 3-point carryall from TSC hooked to a spike harrow with short chains and beam clamps. Works great

SNONUT: PICTURES PLEASE.

 

[jeff9366]

LIGHTWEIGHT $149 COUNTYLINE BOOM POLE: CountyLine Boom Pole - For Life Out Here

Any reason I could not attach two slip hook fittings on two 1/4" chains to summit ring, then opposite end grab hooks to Chain Harrow mat, with or without supplementary chains on drag mat?
Alternately, CLEVIS SHACKLES, available in multiple sizes, could be used for mat-to-chain attachment.

Seems like one chain threaded through summit loop might shift at inopportune moments, or would one chain, slipping, be a useful equalizer?

 

[Redlands Okie]

LIGHTWEIGHT $149 COUNTYLINE BOOM POLE: CountyLine Boom Pole - For Life Out Here

Any reason I could not attach two slip hook fittings on two 1/4" chains to summit ring, then opposite end grab hooks to Chain Harrow mat, with or without supplementary chains on drag mat?
Alternately, CLEVIS SHACKLES, available in multiple sizes, could be used for mat-to-chain attachment.

Seems like one chain threaded through summit loop might shift at inopportune moments, or would one chain, slipping, be a useful equalizer?

No pictures provided of your chain harrow that i saw but it seems that the boom pole you listed would work with chains as you are thinking. Might need a spreader bar or something to keep it from folding in half or sagging in the middle. Might need two such sets depending on how your harrow it built or its size. Seems you have a good economic option there that also provide you other uses for it later.

 

[jeff9366]

It seems the boom pole you listed would work with chains as you are thinking. Might need a spreader bar or something to keep it from folding in half or sagging in the middle.

Seems you have a good economic option there that also provide you other uses for it later.

The TSC 4' X 4' Chain Harrow is at the Blueberry Patch, seven miles distant.

Here is TSC's info: Loyal Multi-Use Harrow, 4 ft. x 4 ft. - For Life Out Here


My Ace Hardware has a large assortment of various strength springs. Perhaps I can use springs or HD bungee cords to provide some suspension, while still permitting mat lift to shake out detritus.

Also see Post #8.

 

[bcp]

Boom pole style chain harrow lifter:

Carryall style-extended

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...emade-3-pt-hitch-post1749120.html#post1749120

Bruce

 

[Egon]

Lots of different ways to raise harrows with a three point hitch. Goggle search !

[video]https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Supplier-of-HRP120-farm-tractor-3_1666266929/showimage.html[/video]

 

[jeff9366]

I prefer your solution in Post #4, or the $149 TSC/CountyLine/Tarter, made-in-Kentucky, Boom Pole solution. With coal in rapid decline, Kentucky manufacturing businesses need every sale.

jeff9366

 

[jenkinsph]

I would use a 3 point harrow instead, easier to manage and works very well. I built this one years ago but it would be very easy to make a smaller one for the row spacing you need. This one cost about $250 to build in an 8 ft. width.

 

[jeff9366]

The Blueberry patch has used a TSC 'Loyal' (brand) Chain Harrow in size 4' X 4' for three years. Teamed with a Woodward Crossing's (brand) Tool Bar Cultivator for deeper rooted weeds, the two implements have served well for organic weed control in the rows. All we need is a mechanism to lift the Chain Harrow so we can shake out accumulated weeds and Blueberry trimmings with less human commitment.

I power a Korean Hoe for close-in weed control. We sow Buckwheat near the plants in the Spring to shade/crowd out weeds. This is pretty effective March-June, when the Buckwheat has cycled and dies. Then back to the Korean Hoe.

Based on the contributions to this thread, especially BCP's video in Post #15, TSC's CountyLine (brand) Three Point Hitch mounted, lightweight Boom Pole appears a practical solution: inexpensive and two functions, mat lift and 1,000 pound capacity crane. As the Chain Harrow mat is only 4' wide, with the boom in the middle mat overlap will be scant 2' on each side of the boom, so the boom-to-mat mounting chains will be close to vertical.

Fortuitously, TSC sent me a 10% OFF coupon last week.

Fine fabrication evident in your two photos. :construction:

 

[N2DFire]

Shouldn't be too hard to convert a simple boom pole into something like this.

3 Point Hitch Lift Frame | "Bridge" Chain Harrow | May-Bridge Harrows (ON)