Drag Made From Old Tires Cattle Panels

Drag Made from Old Tires Cattle Panels TILLAGE EUIPMENT Miscellaneous 16-5-2 "It's inexpensive and it works," says Sandy Townsend, Chillicothe, Mo., about the soil conditioning drag he built out of wire cattle panels and old truck tires to pull behind a field cultivator. "The idea came to me and my father-in-law as a whim one day. We used a 16-ft. cattle panel - available from any farm sup-ply store - and 7 old tires which lay on top of the cattle panel. The horizontal wires on the panel lay towards the ground, which helps break up clods better. Seven 3-ft. pieces of chain attach the panel to the back row of shanks on the cultivator and 7 small pieces of chain hold the tires on the panel. Tires should be positioned towards the rear of the panel. "The drag takes little power to pull. We use a 730 John Deere to pull the 16-ft. cultivator and the drag. You can make the drag as wide - or as narrow - as you want. Can also be used behind a disk or other tillage equipment," says Townsend. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Sandy A. Townsend, 1405 McVey, Chillicothe, Mo. 64601 (ph 816 646-3851).

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