Field Harrow Made From Truck Tires

Field Harrow Made From Truck Tires SWATHERS Old truck tires hooked together make nifty field harrows says Mississippi farmer Robert Lane who pulls a 3-tire harrow behind his 4-wheeler     “It does a good job of leveling out plowed ground ” he says     He used three 16-in truck tires arranged in a triangle to form a 6-ft wide drag Cable runs from a hole drilled into the center of the front tire and back through the other 2 tires to connect all 3 tires together The cable on front of the lead tire has a loop in it just large enough to drop over a 2-in trailer ball on his 4-wheeler     “It’s easy to take on and off ” says Lane “At first I tried using 15-in car tires but they were too light ”     He also made a large harrow using seven 18-wheeler-size tires into a triangle and pulled them behind a tractor “I used them to level 29 acres of bulldozed timber ground that I converted into pasture The tires smoothed the ground really well and when they hit a tree stump they just bounced off it or jumped over it After spreading lime fertilizer and seed I dragged the tires over the ground again     “I tried hooking together three 18-wheeler tires 22 in and pulling them behind my 4-wheeler but they were too heavy for it so I switched to three 16-in heavy truck tires I used them on my yard after I disked and spread seed and fertilizer and they worked great I also used them successfully on some 2 and 3-acre wildlife food plots ”      Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Robert C Lane 4035 Hwy 902 Pulaski Miss 39152 ph 601 507-2252

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