Recycled Tire Harows

Recycled Tire Harows TILLAGE EUIPMENT Harrows 20-6-4 Here are a couple new twists on the concept of making a harrow out of used tires. Bob Rodger, Bognor, Ontario, earned $375 in prize money for his recycled tire harrow in the inventors contest at the Out-door Farm Show at Burford, Ontario, earlier this fall. "I had more than a dozen sales leads from the show alone," says Rodger who has started building the harrows for sale. Also, unlike tire harrows for leveling corn stalks after spring disking, Rodger's is used on pasture and hay ground instead. "It's ideal for bringing up matted grass and manure in spring in one pass ," he says. "I also use it to spread out green manure during summer as I move cows from pad-dock to paddock." Rodger's harrow is 12 ft. wide. It consists of nine 15-in. recycled car tires, 5 in front and 4 in back. Sidewalls are cut out of the bottom side so they're not as aggressive as tire harrows for crop land. Tires are hooked together with eye bolts and connector links and fastened to an ash 2 by 6 with lengths of chain. Another length of chain wraps around the board and hooks to the drawbar on Rodger's Allis Chalmers WD45 with a clevis. Sells for $250 (Canadian) plus delivery. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob or Brent Rodger, Hidden Acre Farm, R.R. 1, Bognor, Ontario, Canada NOH 1EO (ph 519 794-4244).

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