Tractor Harrow | What is a Harrow?

 

A Harrow is a secondary tillage equipment and a very useful agricultural machinery used for soil preparation before planting crop seeds in a farm. It’smulti-purposes farm machinery that is used for from leveling of heavy soil to eliminate weeds and to prepare the perfect seedbed for plants. To increase the production at their farm a farmers to choose the right types of harrowing equipment depending on the soil type and crop type.




Models of Harrow- Different types of harrows are used depending on the soil type on a farm in different parts of world. Some of these are commonly usedin various parts of the world, few are mentioned below

  •         Disc Harrow
  •         Heavy Duty Hydraulic Harrow
  •         Poly Disc Harrow Or  Plough
  •         Compact Model Disc Harrow
  •         Mounted Offset Disc Harrow Etc.

How does a Harrow works?

A disc harrow includes a set of steel disks that breaks upall the clods and lumps in the soil in an easy, efficient and fast manner and provides it a smooth finish for creating seedbed. It is generally used as secondary tillage equipment after the initial ploughing is done, for providing soil the final structure for making the desired seedbed. It also completely removes the weeds and crops residue leaving the soil completely prepared to sow new crop seeds. Modern harrows are used as an attachment to the tractor that runs through the field making to make soil clod-free.

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