Ever Seen a Power Harrow? Planting Sweet Corn in Garden!

My first experience with a Power Harrow. Let's see if it works! Maschio has been making power harrows for many years. They are quite popular in Europe. Kubota LX3310 Tractor.

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[johniac]

I want to get one, but I heard it was a harrowing Thanks I am here all day!

[ingmarfisser]

Here in the nethrerlands we use power harrows almost for evry crop.Was nice see it be used on a little tractor.

[glendonmorgan]

Harrows like that are great for regenerative agriculture. Tillers disturb the soil much deeper thus disrupting the ecosystem much more. Harrows help prevent soil erosion and also help not tear up the local ecosystems as bad as they don't go nearly as deep, yet still provide a suitable seedbed to allow for good germination rates. The organic people are really starting to move that direction. I discovered these things due to the BCS system of two wheel tractors. I will be getting one similar for my market garden operation.

[AdamSmith-uvkr]

I love your seeder. It really puts things into perspective just how big the big planter in our area are. The wheels look so big on Johnny

[Bob-vblc]

Great info and video. Thanks Tim & Christy

[Kcolby]

I’m one of many who have not seen the Power Harrow. It’s interesting what it does to the weeds and I’m sure you’ll let us know how that worked. Thanks for demonstrating some unique equipment. Blessings.

[mariouyttebroek]

I'm from Belgium and here we use a power harrow a lot. A power harrow is used for making the ground fine. You have to plow first. It is not for mixing ground or working the weed and stuff in the ground, but for making a fine seeding bed.

[chrismills]

Just love planting and harvesting videos...👍

[tinachambers]

Looks like a good way to add soil conditioners nice video Christy have a day love from TEXAS

[nielsdepraeter]

here in Belgium a power harrow gets used a lot, even on big farms, it is used here after tilling ( for gardens or small fields) or ploughing ( wich we do every year) it breaks up the big cloths of dirt and levels the field out, ideal as a seed bed. it is funny to me how some implements aren't used in the USA, but what mostly suprises me is that a lot of farmers in the USA use no till or jusst go over with someting called a VT. Here that is forbidden, we have to plough and cultivate and roll... also I see a lot of farmers do corn after corn or mixed with soybeans, here we need to crop rotate with a period of years depending on the crop. You will never see a field of corn in corn aagain the next year. Just tought this was very interesting. But as always great video Tim! I really enjoy them, coming from a owner of 2 Iseki compact tractors

[stanleynowak]

As a vegetable grower from NY I am very familiar with power harrows. It's a final finishing tool.

[jonathanbraud]

We use a power harrow on the big 8410 after spreading manure and disking. Leaves a great finish. Can also smooth out ANY ruts

[ohiofarmer]

I like the concept. it would be interesting to see how it does with rocks. Up here in Glacier country ( we have 4 glacial lakes within 5 miles) I grow rocks the size of softballs just under the surface every year we pull 10 to 15 out of the garden and hundreds if not more in the fields

[stevenhodges]

I've planted Milky Way the last 4 years, and it is one of my favorites.

[hardwareguy]

Finally, I was wondering what nickname you were going to give your little Kubota!

[nealtubbs]

That's an interesting tool. It looks like it did a great job.

[poorfatman]

Troy-Bilt said to rake the weed up when you're done you can use one of those yard sweepers I think

[TheDARJAMRAN]

allot of European seed drills are mounted on the top/back of power harrows it allows good seedbed preparation, great vid by the way. looks like a useful bit of kit for a compact tractor.

[firionrazar]

Hey Tim, at our farm we got the 4m (~39 inches) bigger brother of this machine and we don't use it often. Mostly in dry autumns on clumpy soil. As far as I learned in the university the difference between the power harrow and the tiller is indeed the fact that the power harrows doesn't chop up the soil as much as a tiller at a smaller level (soil degradation). Tillers should be used for gardening where the soil is often replaced/mixed with other components while for large scale farming power harrows are recommended. That type of spiky roller does a really nice job pushing bigger clumps down, leaving fine soil on top, again good for planting vegetables, but there are a lot of other rollers available from Gaspardo for different soils doing the opposite (spiral roller). A thing you maybe did observed but didn't mention in the video is the square tube behind the tines before the roller: it's important how fine you want the soil to be broken up. The lower you put it, the more time the soil will spend in the "working area" of the machine, also defining the working speed. If you're going too fast, with the bar set to low, the soil will be pushed in front of the machine and flowing-splashing over the square bar resulting with only fuel burned up. Working speed is dictated by soil types, weather and how fine you want the soil. You could run the machine from 1.85 - 4.7mph, but at high speeds it doesn't quite got time to work the soil. Another thing is the gearbox (on our Gaspardo on top of the machine which connects to the pto), you can change gears (optional) for different tine rotation speed contributing on matching the machine for your type of soil.

[e.cfarmphotography]

Here in England we use them all the time we have a detachable 3M one that goes I front of the seed drill and for maize and potatoes we take the drill of it and work it down like that are one is also a mashio