Our neighbor has this piece of equipment in his woods and has offered it to us. We aren’t exactly sure what it is, or what it does, but if it tills or helps level ground, we could definitely use it!

As best I can tell, it is 2 separate pieces. The one has 2, roughly 7 foot long bars, each with a spike covered roller. Hubby calls it the “wheels of death” and says they look frighteningly evil! This piece seems to have the actual tow bar attached. The other piece is propped upright behind it, and is about 5 feet wide, with what appears to be adjustable harrow/drag teeth.

Obviously, it has wild grapevine and trees growing up through it, so we are wondering if it is worth the effort to remove it, and what it would take to get the rollers turning again. Any advice would be appreciated

It was known on the farm as "weed eater" and we used it in corn and bean to pull the early weeds. You could pull it fast and it would flip the weeds out and not affect the growing plants. Corn and beans needed to be up good and it would really do a good job.

I believe that is a rotary hoe ,I pull one behind the team to punch holes in the pasture that fill with organic matter when I drag a harrow behind it. sometimes I hook the harrow on to it. the one I have has two of those hooked together. Looks like that one is going to need a chainsaw to come home with you!

It sure looks like a rotary hoe to me. Can break crust to allow seedlings to emerge and take out any weeds that have sprouted prior to crop emergence

Those tines look like the ones on a rotary hoe. I've only seen them though in a single section. Used to break the crust on a planted field after a packing rain so the seedlings emerge easier. I guess the way it's set it would do the same thing, break the crust. Not sure if the two rows of tines would damage seedlings or not?

You have a section of zig zag harrow piled on top of rotary hoe. Rotary hoe was used to break crust so the crop could come up after a hard rain.

Just a section from a rotary hoe.

The drag section may not need much work at all. The rotary hoe has bearings and as a minimum would need to be inspected for wobble and then greased. The greasing part will probably require removing the zerks and a shot of penetrating oil at each one to soften the old grease so that it can be displaced with the new grease.

Neal

Any idea what the monetary value of a piece like this is? We have a lot of auctions around here, and I see these old "yard ornaments" going for several hundred each. In this case, the owner is happy to let hubby cut it free, fix it up, do all the work, and "use it," but I don't want him to take the time if she is going to then turn around and sell it to someone else. He'd like to offer just to buy it off her so he doesn't worry about it.

Last one I bought couple years back, $100.......and I wanted it....other than that scap metal price is it..with the exception of people making flowers out of the toothed sections

If you decide to use rotary hoe be sure to use a tongue. Unit can free wheel and run up on your horses or you even on tractor. Be safe.

Thanks for the heads up. If it works out, i will be attaching it to the forecart with the bar that is on it. Hubby said the attachment point is perfectly sized.

my rotary hoe works just fine hooked behind the fore cart. I still think of putting a tongue on it so it is shorter to turn around,we just use it and a disk to break up the ground on the shoulders of the road. then the road grader works, easier to roll the shoulders into the road.

I don't like pulling the rotary hoe, or disk behind the fore cart, it leaves you less room to escape when it all goes bad.

So what would you do? Walk behind it? It isn't set up to ride.

put A tongue on it and a seat towards the back side of it. my rotary hoe has a 200 lb tractor weight on it, the one who owned it before me put a small deck on it.