Used Agricultural Rakes For Sale in Oregon & Washington
Looking for great deals on used agricultural tillage equipment? At SS Equipment, we carry a huge selection of used rakes for sale at our dealerships located across Oregon and Washington. Visit us today to get yours. We proudly serve all of the Pacific Northwest as your local used rake dealer!
About Rakes and Tillage Equipment
When it’s time to start planting your crops, you’ll want to do everything you can to get your soil turned over, tilled and ready for seed. Ever since the dawn of agriculture, cultivating machines and plows have been used by farmers, but they’ve gone from cumbersome, horse-drawn tools to efficient implements pulled by a motorized tractor. This removes a large portion of the labor from the equation.
There are several types of tillage equipment currently in use by farms across the United States, and three of these are disk harrows, plows and cultivators. Your local tillage equipment dealer is SS Equipment, serving Oregon and Washington, so we’ve provided this brief breakdown of what this equipment is and how it’s used.
Disk Harrows
Also called simply “disks,” these tools are comprised of carbon steel or boron disc blades arranged in rows of two or four sections and anchored to a frame. Disks are made to lift up and loosen soil as they move over it. The many blades help to ensure the ground is thoroughly and uniformly tilled through repeated slicing.
Primary disks are used before any other implements to break up virgin land for cultivating by chopping up any existing organic material and incorporating it into the soil. Secondary disks are used after an initial harrowing to break down clumps of soil and loosen up any hard-packed dirt. If you use a disk ahead of plowing, you can save yourself some effort and reduce the risk of clogging up your plow on difficult soil.
Plows
The most iconic agricultural implement is likely the plow, which has existed in some form or another for thousands of years. Plows create furrows in a section of land using their blades, improving the quality of the soil by turning it over at a depth of about half a foot.
If your acreage is heavily laden with last year’s crop residue or other organic material, a plow is needed to chop all of this matter up and distribute it through the soil ahead of planting. Plows come in a range of sizes and in several different types so you can get something that’s more specialized if your land needs it.
Cultivators
For secondary tilling, a cultivator is necessary to stir up and loosen soil in particular patterns. These machines are more intricate than the others noted here, making them excellent weed-pullers. You can find small hand-operated cultivators for backyard gardening or large self-propelled and tractor-drawn machines made for commercial agriculture.
Visit one of our three Oregon or three Washington dealerships today to check out our available inventory of new and used tillage equipment and tractor rakes for sale. SS Equipment welcomes all of our Pacific Northwest customers!