OLD Spike tooth drag

[dsterley]

hi all i pickeed up this drag and im not sure what i got it looks to be adjustable for the depth by turning the logs the brackets have little notchs in them there wood poles with spikes in the its about 4 ft wide if any body has any idea the age ore were it came from that would be great thanks again

 

[dfrisk]

DARREN - That's what is referred to as a PEG tooth harrow. Pretty common tillage tool 30+ yrs ago for the last smoothing/leveling tillage operation when seeding newly planted fields. That is a very early one because of the wooden cross bars. Probably originally horse-drawn. Later versions were all steel, the pegs or harrow teeth were either welded or bolted on. Later versions also got wider, 5 & 6 ft wide per section. To cover more ground with higher HP tractors You could pull multiple sections with folding drawbars which were a tubular steel bar the chains attached to from the tractor's drawbar. Some companies, IH included made hyd. controlled carts that lifted & folded with wheels on them for transporting those harrows down the road without having to drag them. Some could be as wide as seven sections covering 42 ft per pass. And they worked best pulling them with some speed, 6 to 10 MPH normally. They were a really shallow working tool so We always ran them with the adjustable angle teeth running straight up & down. At most they would stir the ground only an inch or two.
Dad had an old 4-sectiion 20 ft wide harrow until about 1966 then got a brand new Kewanee 4-section 24 ft harrow. It was ALL the old Super H wanted to pull in plowed ground ready to plant corn & beans in 4th gear, about 6-1/2 mph. When We planted oats with the IH endgate seeder We disced the ground once leaving a marker row every 6-8 corn rows, Oats were always seeded into old corn ground, then We sewed the seed oats with the broadcast seeder, then disced them in a second time, then pulled the peg tooth harrows over the field to smooth them because they ultimately would be either hog pasture or hay fields. We also pulled the harrow over the ground just before planting corn & beans.