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Texas | I'm needing a pull type rake or comb for cleaning up after the dozer. Does anybody make a pull type that I could use behind a big tractor? I'm imagining a "critter" that might look like a high-tech surry rake. Maybe there is a farm implement that could be adapted to this use. A pull type in-line ripper that has extremely high clearance when raised, for instance. I need to comb buried brush, limbs, posts and wire and pull it all to the edge of the field, or maybe onto the neighbors field!!!! If you remember some pull type tillage tool that raised really high, I might be able to fabricate some rake shanks to use on it. I'm also wondering if a three point caddy with an in-line ripper sporting modified shanks might be a good choice. A picture would be worth a 1,000 words here if you have one. Thanks in advance for the help. |
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Somerville, Indiana | A Brush Rake has been a farmer's dream for many years. Some were mounted on the front of bulldozers, and were intended to clear all the small limbs and roots from the clearing operation. We have a rake for on of our tractors but haven't used it since we got our first bucket Cat in 1983. Since then we have used the teeth on a 4 ft excavator bucket to rake through small limbs and roots, and also a 12 ft 3 pt chisel plow with teeth only on the rear bar and spaced 12 to 18 inches apart.
The chisel plow solves the problem of broken shanks that we had with field cultivators, and using the rear rank gave us the ground clearance to dump the piles of roots. Unless the area has been disked with a Rome type heavy disc vines and small roots will clog up the rake whether on the dozer blade or the chisel plow. We once tried a pull type chisel plow but couldn't keep tires from getting punctured. A good hard working teenager with a short handled axe has been our best root rake here although we usually have to rotate personel every month or so. I haven't been able to find two teenagers who can remain focused enough to work roots with each other. |
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sw corner ia. | if the skinner dug all his roots, all you need is to find an old kent spring tooth harrow and mount all the tines on the back bar close together. I have a 24' that I put together years ago and it really works. It will catch any loose twigs and leave dirt behind.
If the skinner used a hoe and left hooked roots sticking up you have a lot of work to do. |
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Triplett / Brunswick MO / Brookfield | My first thought would be to rent a skid steer with a root rake. I bought a root rake/grapple for mine this winter but haven't used it yet.
A neighbor had pretty good luck turning the shanks around backword on a V ripper with parobolic shanks. They drove backwards with it and it dumped well. |
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NW Ohio,near Findlay | Agree with dave on this, really I don't use brush rake anymore. With a little planning, I try to remove fence with a loader and hoe first, then use dozer. I use just a mounted chisel plow to pull up stuff and pick up. With no till, you don't have to have all roots out, will rot up in a couple of years. Just takes work picking up. |
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wilmington ohio | it has been my experience to remove trees with a trackhoe, pile them with a track loader as they can be carried, offset disc, then a harrowgator to level and sweep small stuff to the pile. the more you disturb [rip, chisel] the longer the pickin will be. dont be in a hurry to work the area as it takes quite a few years to rot those roots. i cant remember how many deadmen i have dug out of a fencerow[old stuff] that had a log attached at the bottom of the brace that was good enough to hold a nail.i guess they were 3 ft in the ground for 30 yrs. my 2 cents |
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NW Ohio,near Findlay | good advise there Nuckenfutz, just take your time and let mother nature rot up roots. |
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NC Indiana | Most take an old 3 pt chisel and move the front shanks to the rear to narrow up the spacing around here. |
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Yorktown, TX | If you want to remove the roots and burn them, this works really good. We used one like it to clean up behind our dozer when we cleaned brush for planting coastal sprigs. It worked good, but you might have to pick it just a little still. Here is a pic that is close to what we had. This one is using a cable now, but you can find converted ones that operate with a cylinder. They pretty much pull up an touch the pulley so there is plenty of clearance to dump whatever you pull out of the ground.
EDIT: It is a Holt Root Rake and we pulled it with a Case IH 7130 2wd and a 8940 MFWD.
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Texas | BINGO That's what I'm looking for. I want to pull it with my 9520T and I have a lot of acres to cover. If someone knows where to find one, I would like to make the contact. Thanks for the picture. |
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| Old guys around here used to talk about a type of heavy wheel rake for raking sticks and roots. I think they said it was made by Rome...
My prefered solution was the offset disc. A good heavy Rome will chop most of the smaller crap, get some decent soil depth and level it off, then a Degelman rock rake can clean up a lot of the smaller stumps and crap that's left over so long as it's sitting loose.
There's no real easy way. Just work...
Rod |
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Yorktown, TX | Rome Plow Equipment Co., LLC.
475 Sixth Street
P.O. Box 48
Cedartown, GA 30125 800-241-7860 - USA only
770-748-4450 800-553-2865 - USA only
Fax - 770-748-4427
I would try to call these guys and see if they make what you are looking for, or if they could tell you some dealers that might have a root rake like you want.
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Yorktown, TX | Even more, I asked dad where he got his rake, and he said it was a Holt custom engineered wheel root rake.
The number for these guys is.......800-275-4658
They're out of San Antonio
The website is....http://www.holtcat.com/Products/New/Land_Management_Tools.aspx
There you can download a brochure.
Hope that helps,
JKneese |
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SEIL | darf mfg use to make one |
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