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Apr 12, 2024
Choose Your Harrow. RiteWay 5 Bar or 7 Bar.
If you’ve heard good things about RiteWay tine harrows, and you’re thinking of buying one, you might be wondering if the HH8200 5-bar or MH7200 7-bar model is right for you. Both are designed to best serve the needs of customers but in different ways to suit different purposes. Let’s start by looking at the most important working feature of both harrows. Tines The five-bar harrows are equipped with 25 28” tines –longer than the 26” tines you usually see in competitor models. The HH8200 offers two tine thickness options – the standard 9/16” or the stouter-than-usual 5/8”. Whichever thickness...
May 6, 2022
6 Reasons to Use a Riteway 7-Bar Harrow This Year
When it’s time to get your fields prepped for seeding, there are a few different equipment options to choose from. For many years, harrows have been used to prepare fields in different capacities. Whether you are levelling off ruts, busting up hardpan, or removing trash before seeding, both the Riteway 5-bar and 7-bar harrows have a specific purpose in the tillage cycle. With low-till or zero-tillage farming practices gaining popularity in the last decade, you need a way to create ideal seedbeds for your crop. Riteway 5-Bar Heavy Harrow in use Heavy harrows, often known as 5-bar harrows, are very...
Posted by: Mitch Flaman
Category: Product Information
Tags: Riteway | harrow | 7-bar | heavy harrow | tillage | field prep | seeding
Jun 3, 2021
Heavy harrow meets high speed tillage: Why the Schulte SoilStar Disc Harrow is the best of both worlds
There are a lot of different discs and harrows on the market, but there is nothing quite like the Schulte SoilStar Disc Harrow. Whether you are cleaning up after a bumper crop or dealing with pulse residue post-harvest, properly managing the trash in your field is important prior to seeding. The Schulte DHX combines a 5-bar heavy harrow and a double row of wavy coulter discs. This unique design is engineered to properly size straw and manage it in the top 1.5” – 2” of the soil. Pictured above: 5-bar heavy harrow & wavy coulter discs Although traditional discs can...
Posted by: Mitch Flaman
Category: Product Information
Tags: Schulte | DHX | disc harrow | soilstar | 5-bar | coulter discs