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Old 10-17-2005 | 12:17 PM
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What is the best implement, that can pulled by an ATV, to cover seed after you broadcast?

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Old 10-17-2005 | 05:21 PM
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take a peace of chain link fence 4 or 5' long with a couple of 1/2 concrete blocks on top to make it heaver.
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Old 10-17-2005 | 06:11 PM
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Get a 6 or 8 foot drag harrow (depending on your ATV size). I covered 28 food plots this weekend with one and it is by far the best seed covering implement I have ever seen. We always disc before spreading the seed, but on softer ground the drag harrow might work without discing if the weeds weren't too bad.
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Old 10-17-2005 | 07:28 PM
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Ditto to the drag harrow. Works great with an ATV.
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Old 10-18-2005 | 06:14 AM
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I covered my buckwheat, oats, winter wheat, and soybeans with the "disk" harrow. Reducing the depth to 2" will bury the seed about 1" if the soil is disked fine enough. A "spring tooth" harrow might work if that is all you had. The "spike tooth" harrow I use for leveling behind the "disk" harrow. For the fine seed like clovers, trefoils, brassicas I don't bury or rake them. Their seed is so small they work themselves into cracks in the soil or rain pushed them into the soil. When a cultipacker is available you can use that to press the seed against the soil.
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Old 10-24-2005 | 10:42 AM
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This year I tried the homade chain link drag with some spikes....I had it tore up before the last food plot was finished.

The drag harrows are you speaking of disk, the rake type on wheels, spike type on wheels or the chainlink type rake that you drag.
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Old 10-24-2005 | 07:46 PM
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The "disk" harrow and "spring tooth" both have wheels (but not always). A manual crank, or hydraulic cylinder adjust the height/depth of cut/penetration.

The "spike tooth" harrow is mounted on a frame and the angle of all the spikes can be pivited with one lever to adjust angle. These are generally of the drag type. Then there is the newer chain link drag type that is not adjustable.

Clover, rape, trefoil, chicoryseed is so small, it does not need to be burried by any mechanical means. If you have access to a cultipacker roller, use it before and after broadcasting seed, otherwise, don't worry about attempting to burry tiny seed. Rain will take care of it for you. JMHO

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Old 10-31-2005 | 07:40 AM
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Cut a green cedar tree about 5 or 6 ft. tall, pull it behind your atv and the limbs will cover the seed---it works greet
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Old 10-31-2005 | 11:05 AM
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I don't have too many ceder trees around my lease. Has anyone tried the drag type that has the spikes....the new chain link type.
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Old 10-31-2005 | 02:19 PM
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There are several different brands and different designs of the drag harrows. If you google 'drag harrows' there are a bunch of pages and brands. Here are a couple of them. The Kovar is similar to the one we used, and it works great.
www.kovarsales.com/chainharrow.html

www.wingfields.com/dragharrow.htm
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