Looking for suggestions and availability for a pasture drag, preferably 10-14 ft wide. We have a lot of areas that we will be hitting with a 12 ft pasture renovator, but followup smoothing will be needed. Plus some of the lesser hog damaged areas, and some pastures with an incredible number of gopher mounds..those might respond to a good drag/harrow.

A neighbor has what we need, a heavy drag, angle and tube frame, spikes that can be up or down, hydraulic lift, fold-out wings to go to 16 ft wide, but although he has not used it in 15+ years, and trees are growing through it...not for sale .

A drag unit that lifts up on tires for transport, or a 3pt setup, either could work.We can't use a standard drag harrow, as many of the areas are quite the distance apart.

We're in west Brazos county.
This type seems to be the most common, 3pt.

..another 3pt offering.

We just use a big piece of iron and chains.

Railroad rail and chains

TRL-Ag said:

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We just use a big piece of iron and chains.

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Very challenging to move something heavy enough to do some good, to the next location. Dragging something 12 ft wide down the pasture roads, across bridges, not gonna work.
We have cobbled together various drags, old gates, weights, etc. The hogs have us looking for an easier implement to move as needed.

I just used a 12' gate that has chain link fencing on it. It was made out of 2-7/8" pipe and was pretty heavy but not heavy enough to damage the existing oats we've got planted. I think it did a good job for what I needed here. I would've added some tires or other panels if I wanted more weight. I have also used I-beam or railroad irons in the past. If you really want to go cheap use a heavy cedar limb. I've seeded hundreds and hundreds of acres pulling a cedar limb behind a jeep on freshly cleared land and the cedar does a pretty dang good job smoothing things out.

A heavy pipe harrow might work. What hp is your tractor and is it front mfwd?

We will be using aerator with drag chain pulled behind it.

Hogs did some damage this year

I should've read your OP more thoroughly. I've had an idea in my head for a while now to make a drag that is easy transport but also effective. My initial idea is to take some of the railroad irons I have and cut them into 5-6 foot sections and weld tabs so that I could pin it all together easily. That way I could use a 5' drag or 10' or 15' if needed but I could easily put those pieces on a trailer or in the bucket of the tractor to transport.

I have nothing to add other than I have been looking for a tooth harrow drag since we sold the farm 12 years ago and my uncle called dibs on it and then immediately gave it away for next to nothing. If you find one in your search and don't want it let me know.

Mas89 said:

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A heavy pipe harrow might work. What hp is your tractor and is it front mfwd?

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90 and 120 HP Deere's, 4wd

I used a heavy railroad iron frame.
Two pieces of 14 foot iron with two 4 foot pieces welded in between.
Pulled with a heavy chain shackled to the hitch. I welded a D ring on my PTO disk and often used it that way. Used a rigging sling as a shock absorber.

Just run the drag - or disk the ground and drag it depending on your goals. Will leave area pool table smooth if you have loose dirt to work with.


Problem is hogs will be right back rooting unless you electric fence them out.

Middle photo is my wife planting a field that was lightly disked and dragged flat with railroad irons. Hogs had rooted it up so many times I disked it clean then planted soil building rotation. Usually planted haygrazer followed by sunnhemp followed by silver River sweet clover.

These are the type heavy pipe harrows we use in pastures and hay fields to smooth out problem areas and knock down ant hills. With the spike teeth, it works as a renovator also. The smaller one is 5x14 and your tractors would easily pull one that size and it can be easily moved by trailer/ tractor front end loader.

At a separate location, an overlooked, rather decrepit, forgotten cattleguard, not worthy of reuse in that respect, has now become my project for conversion into a drag...!
Once I move the beast to the "hog and gopher riddled" property, it can be used just with chains, then I'll see about converting to a 3pt setup.

Side note.. if pigs are causing issues. Have thermals, NV and suppressors. Will travel