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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 750965" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>If you are tearing up grass I understand your concern and reluctance to drag the manure. As I mentioned I have more that one drag harrow and the old worn one is the main harrow used. The angle adjustment is long passed working and actually I have removed the handles that were used to adjust the harrow so that I can get under the fences when I move to another paddock. The horizontal bars in the harrow are set to where the harrow teeth do not touch the ground. If you were to rotate the letter L 90 degrees clockwise and then pull the harrow right to left that is how the horizontal bars in the harrow are set. I do loose some clover leaves but the clover seems to always need suppressed to avoid it choking the grass. I rarely allow the cattle to back graze and that practice avoids a second day deposit/buildup of manure on grazed paddocks. Cattle avoid manure piles by smelling rather than visually IMO. With a good distribution of manure, the paddock seems to smell uniformly the same and when the cattle return they will eat the forage. My repeat grazing of a paddock is probably at longer intervals than those where the the cattle will not eat certain areas. In the following picture I have been moving the herd down the center of the pic. In the forefront of the pic that is an area I grazed just a couple of weeks ago and then pulled the harrow. You can see the manure is nearly gone and in the center of the pic there are very few areas that were not grazed. I will miss a few manure piles that are in depressions or are bounced over.</p><p><img src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/agmantoo/IMG00151-20100409-1739.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 750965, member: 8973"] If you are tearing up grass I understand your concern and reluctance to drag the manure. As I mentioned I have more that one drag harrow and the old worn one is the main harrow used. The angle adjustment is long passed working and actually I have removed the handles that were used to adjust the harrow so that I can get under the fences when I move to another paddock. The horizontal bars in the harrow are set to where the harrow teeth do not touch the ground. If you were to rotate the letter L 90 degrees clockwise and then pull the harrow right to left that is how the horizontal bars in the harrow are set. I do loose some clover leaves but the clover seems to always need suppressed to avoid it choking the grass. I rarely allow the cattle to back graze and that practice avoids a second day deposit/buildup of manure on grazed paddocks. Cattle avoid manure piles by smelling rather than visually IMO. With a good distribution of manure, the paddock seems to smell uniformly the same and when the cattle return they will eat the forage. My repeat grazing of a paddock is probably at longer intervals than those where the the cattle will not eat certain areas. In the following picture I have been moving the herd down the center of the pic. In the forefront of the pic that is an area I grazed just a couple of weeks ago and then pulled the harrow. You can see the manure is nearly gone and in the center of the pic there are very few areas that were not grazed. I will miss a few manure piles that are in depressions or are bounced over. [img]http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/agmantoo/IMG00151-20100409-1739.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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