Which Recreational Tillage Machine? (Mat or Tine harrow)

[IOW91]

Evening all, I know it's been asked on here alot so please forgive me.

I am going to be getting some sort of recreational Tillage device for spring grass maintenance.

I will be using it for removing old thatch and spreading the lumps of FYM/ sheep dung around.

Removing poaching from cattle land would be a bonus but not as important as the other two things as I have a ring roller that does a good job of that.


So the main question am I better off getting one of these (mat harrow)

Or one of these (tine harrow)

I have used a tine harrow on a dairy I worked on a few years ago, but that was ok new/newish rye grass leys. Mine would be used on old permanent pasture.

Also not forgetting the most important question.... which will leave the best lines to make the neighbours think I know what I'm doing .

Thankyou as always for the responses.

 

[workin f nowt]

Tine as you'll know can alter severeness to suit. Neither do much on poached up land from cattle

 

[Pan mixer]

Chain harrows just fill with rubbish after the first row and then stay that way until the end of the field.

 

[David.]

Tines if you want to level mole heaps.

 

[IOW91]

I was probably going to go with the tines, I just wanted to make sure that there wasn't some massive advantage the mats would have over it. If it pulls thatch, scatters dung and mole hills then that's all the boxes ticket for me thanks.

 

[IOW91]

Would you run a fold out tine harrow with the spool in float? I seem to remember the ones from years ago you didn't need to as it had an accumulator.

 

[Dry Rot]

I suspect there's a difference in the price which was the decider for me, so spiked chains here.

 

[Western promise]

You need a Zocon Greenkeeper https://zocon.eu/machines/greenkeepers/zocon-greenkeeper-plus-6m/?lang=en imported by www.ryetec.co.uk . Strong levelling board for spreading muck & levelling ,10mm adjustable tines & galvanised . Don't forget with the new legislation you will be paid to put seed on !

 

[steveR]

Tine every day of the week.