[CRToney]

I just put a set of their levelling shovels on our old 39ft IH 5500 chisel plow. They perform as advertised. They level ruts really well. Level ground great after burying rock piles. They did a very good job smoothing out mole hills in our hay fields as well. Easy to install and easy to use. I believe it performs better than a "Molehill Destroyer" it doesn't leave ridges like the "V" hay floats. We should have put these on years ago.

 

[tc]

always nice when something outperforms expectations how wide are the shovels? how much overlap is what i was after i guess does it take out old mole hills and ridges( where the sod has formed)?

 

[snapper21]

If you go over it twice perpendicular to each. It works better. I rigged a 32'x8' chain harrow behind my molehill cultivator. That got fairly aggressive on the old sod but a little hard on alfalfa. Most times we run the shovels on the ground. I know you're supposed to run a bit off the ground but if it's bad dragging like a float will help on those sodded over gopher mounds. If you have really hard stuff a deep tillage with big sweeps might slice it off better. I took on some horrendously rough hay that still produced good in severe hills. My dad floated it twice and it made a heck of a difference. I think I should hit it again before green up to see if it will smooth it down more. My bush land I made a float from a cat rail and uke tires. Boy if I put that on hay land that would shure drag out those humps but it would be a pain to transport.

 

[CRToney]

always nice when something outperforms expectations how wide are the shovels? how much overlap is what i was after i guess does it take out old mole hills and ridges( where the sod has formed)?

They overlap the same as 16" shovels on 12" spacing. No mound is missed. The walking axles on the cultivator lift it off the ground too much to level big mounds if they hit it straight on. Snapper has it correct in that if you hit it at 90 degrees you do a really good job. I'm doing some 20 yr old CWG fields that we sprayed out and had seeded to rye 2 years ago too. The moles were still in them hard at work last year.