{"id":8034,"date":"2020-03-23T22:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.kellytillage.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:13:11","slug":"kelly-diamond-harrow-proven-by-farmers-who-demand-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kellytillage.com\/us\/kelly-diamond-harrow-proven-by-farmers-who-demand-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Diamond Harrow proven by farmers who demand performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCorn, soybean ground, sandy ground, gumbo \u2013 it\u2019s an amazing tool.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It\u2019s that kind of tool \u2014 the kind a farmer recommends to his friends and neighbors \u2014 an implement of unmatched versatility that saves time, labor and fuel and, they say, \u201cdoes a heckuva job.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what farmers tell other farmers about the Kelly Diamond Harrow. And they\u2019ve proven it themselves where it counts \u2014 in the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuane Gaither is a very good friend of mine and he told me I really needed a
\nKelly,\u201d says Ron Pigue who farms 5,000 acres of rice, corn and soybeans near Paragould, Ark.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuane\u2019s a top farmer and he knows what he\u2019s talking about, so I tried one and he was right \u2014 I did need a Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The operation now has two Kelly Diamond Harrows and although Ron and his son,
\nDavid, initially thought they\u2019d use their Kelly Diamond Harrows exclusively on rice growing in their demanding gumbo soils, they soon expanded to other applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorn, soybean ground, sandy loam, gumbo \u2014 it\u2019s an amazing tool,\u201d Ron says.<\/p>\n

Manufactured by Kelly Engineering, the Kelly Diamond Harrows Gaither and Pigue run are 45-foot models. The hydraulically-folding units feature flexible disc gangs on an industrial chain and mounted to a diamond-shaped steel frame. The offset chains are drawn across the ground at an angle, filling in ruts, fluffing and scarifying residue and leaving a top-notch seedbed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use it to get a roughed-up field back into shape and we use it as our final tool before planting,\u201d Ron explains,<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the spring, if you have a stale seedbed to loosen up, you can quickly work that top inch or so and get those early weeds. It gives you perfect, uniform residue cover for corn and beans, it fluffs up rice residue so you can get a good burn and you can pull it over bedded ground \u2014 it\u2019s got a lot of uses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duane Gaither was the first farmer in the country to give the Kelly Diamond Harrow a try and he now uses three of them on his 2,700 acres of continuous rice at Clover Bend Farms near Hoxie, Ark. Those three units, Gaither says, can cover 1,200 acres a day at a fuel cost that\u2019s less than $2 per acre for three trips across a field \u2014 far less time and fuel to get his rice ground into shape than the field cultivator and land-plane operations it used to require.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it weren\u2019t for the Kellys, I wouldn\u2019t be following rice with rice,\u201d says Gaither. \u201cIt\u2019s a hard
\ncrop to follow because of the thick root mass and the tremendous amount of straw you have to deal with. This is a very versatile tool, though. I got rid of all my discs and all my field cultivators and we don\u2019t mess with the floats anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaither also appreciates the simplicity and reliability of the Kelly Diamond Harrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as major problems, we just haven\u2019t had any,\u201d Gaither says. \u201cThe secret is to keep the chains tight. We check them every morning before we start. It\u2019s pretty simple. There are four tensioners to check and you can do it in a matter of minutes. It\u2019s a very simple, trouble-free machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kelly Diamond Harrow\u2019s blades are wear-guaranteed for 50,000 acres and the swivel bearings are guaranteed for 10,000 acres. Although he\u2019s never had to replace a bearing, Gaither says it would be easily accomplished and the harrow comes with a spare to minimize down-time if he ever does.<\/p>\n

Up the road near Reyno, Ark., Jim Cole likes the expanded planting window he gets with the Kelly Diamond Harrow. \u201cIn the early spring, you can pull the Kelly into a field when it\u2019s pretty wet and you\u2019ll dry out that ground in a day instead of in a week,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can pull the Kelly into a field when it\u2019s pretty wet and you\u2019ll dry out that ground in a day instead of in a week.\u201d \u2014 Jim Cole, Reyno, Ark. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJust working that top inch or two, you get a nice, smooth, level seedbed and it\u2019ll really take care of whatever weeds that are there.\u201d As useful as the Kelly Diamond Harrow is for seedbed. preparation, it\u2019s just as handy as a primary tillage tool. Land that\u2019s been rutted, or has been hipped-up, can quickly be put back into shape. On the Cole farm, there is a fair bit of soil type variation but the Kelly does a good job across the spectrum, even in the most challenging soils.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very versatile tool, though. I got rid of all my discs and my field cultiva- tors and we don\u2019 t mess with floats any- more.\u201d \u2014 Duane Gaither, Hoxie, Ark. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/strong>\u201cThis is the best gumbo tool ever made,\u201d Cole says. \u201cYou can work any soil \u2014 tough as gumbo and light as sand \u2014 and it\u2019s going to do a good job. You don\u2019t get the slabs and clods in gumbo that you get with other tools and it saves us from having to run the land-plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Results like that are hard to keep to yourself. Farmers looking for a better way of crop production are bound to notice, as Ron Pigue found out:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy neighbor saw a field we\u2019d just worked with the Kelly,\u201d Ron recalls from the first season he used the innovative implement from Kelly Engineering. \u201cHe asked what we\u2019d done \u2014 he knew it had been pretty rough before and he said it looked like it had been land- planed. I told him we went over it twice with the Kelly and that was it. Now he owns one, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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