I've found some makes more HP hungry than others. Anyone else found this ?
3M plenty IMO.
3M plenty IMO.
Power harrows
- Thread starter Buxtondairy
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
We run a 4 metre Kuhn on a Claas Axos 340 CX at times not deep but levels ploughing fine. In England we run a 3 metre Maschio and KRM drill on a Ford 7810.
Ducati899
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- north dorset
never spannered a tractor ?? Back 1999 I was tugging round a claas 50ft rake on a deere 6300 on some fair slopes,now you ain’t the boy unless you’ve a 724 ?
Dave W
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- chesterfield
Can't believe what i read on here sometimes.
If that massey doesn't play with a 3m power harrow it wants selling
Why does everyone need a thousand hp to do everything these days
If that massey doesn't play with a 3m power harrow it wants selling
Why does everyone need a thousand hp to do everything these days
Yeah, but it's modern, and 4 cylinder....
It’s probably near 20 years old
Modern.
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
If there is one thing I hate it's people moralising over their or someone else's choice of cultivation. We use power harrows or powered cultivation on every acre of land we have and the land gets better not worse. There are so many factors involved. For me power harrows are brilliant. To say they ruin your soil is a bit like saying if you drive your car at 70 mph you will kill someone. Obviously you will if you do it in a 20mph school zone at 3.30 in the afternoon unlikely at midnight on the Motorway.
I wasn’t moralising just stating a fact. The op asked what size power Harrow a 4355 would handle and I said 3m would be fine and I guess his soil will be good coming out of grass. But now you mention it going over it with a power Harrow 2 or 3 times a year for a generation will knacker it on clay soil that is fact. Weather or not a power Harrow enables you to grow a good crop is a different discussion altogether
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Life is too short to argue however in my experience they have not harmed my soil in the long term and some of it is pretty heavy. What i will say is misuse can cause soil damage something which I have been guilty of at times. All cultivation machines will damage the soil when used wrongly be it because the soil is too wet, too dry or because the machine is operated wrongly. I am sure if you put 180 hp on a 3 metre power harrow with the tines spinning as fast as possible it's going to hurt the soil and we've all heard stories of people power harrowing ground 5 or 6 times to force a seedbed. My philosophy is if you can't do it in once pass it's probably not fit. But don't blame the machine it does n't have any choice in it's use.
After using a Leyland 272 to pull a 3m ph for years in the "good" old days, I couldn't agree more. It was slower than using a 150hp tractor of course, but if you want a fineish seed bed it's no good going too fast.