Kelly chainharrow, how does it work ?

[Acke]

How does Kelly chain harrow work in much spring barley straw?
Are there some in UK?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Do you mean Kelly Harrow Acke?

Could Like a modern lighter wider version of the old 4 or 6 axle ' rotatiller' I guess, was a good tool until the bearings and shaft s got worn .

Certainly stirred things up without going to deep unless you put them at a very steep angle to each other.

Iirc.

 

[Acke]

Yes Kelly Harrow.

 

[chaffcutter]

There are some vids of them working on YouTube

 

[Clive]

How does Kelly chain harrow work in much spring barley straw?
Are there some in UK?

if you do a search there is a couple of threads on them here in the past - a good tool for very light cultivation / trash spread for what I can tell

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Acke]

Do you us it for incorporate straw and chaff?
Im think of use it when Drill WW after SB and get straw incorporated in surface.

 

[grainboy]

Worn out set of discs, by the looks of it ,,,,!!,,

 

[Bury the Trash]

Apologies, I was thinking of a Claydon Terrastar.

 

[Dave b]

Weaving machinery had a few in their yard. Maybe worth giving them a call

 

[Mark C]

Fairly new one parked up on a farm not far from me. it hasn't moved in a few years

 

[Acke]

Fairly new one parked up on a farm not far from me. it hasn't moved in a few years

What size?

 

[deleted user 837354]

Looks a good bit of kit, moves a surprising amount of dirt yet is a relatively simple machine. Discs seem to cut and pull the soil and throw it. Seems able to cope with a bit of wet and trash as well.