I found this heavy piece in our backyard woods. Does anyone know what it is? There's a piece broken on it. The cross bars move together as one.
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What you have there is called a "Spike Tooth Drag Harrow". The first ones were made to be pulled by horse, mule, or oxen. The later ones were pulled by tractors. That 1/4 circle with all the notches, and the handle, were to adjust the depth that the spike teeth dug into the soil. It was used to break up clods of soil, and ready the ground for planting.
Looks like you have a Spike Tooth Drag Harrow that was either horse drawn or maybe by a tractor.
The first picture looks like horse drawn.
'official' description for using this equipment:
You can Google Vintage Spike Tooth Drag Harrow to find pictures of similar equipment.
Farming equipment was/is expensive and I can remember when some farmers would take old metal bed-springs, weld pieces of iron to the bottom of the springs for spikes and use this to break up hard ground.
Sometimes they tied logs on top of the springs to make it heavier so the spikes would go deeper into the ground.
This is probably sellable but you would need better pictures as your present pics can be confusing.
Thank you for the information. Very interesting!
Thank you for this information! So helpful. I will take better pictures of it as soon as I get help moving the heavy beast!
Maybe something to dig holes for planting or go aerate the soil?
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