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So. IL | The answer to your question depends on how hard your soil actually gets. Our southern Illinois soils can get down right hard when they dry out after a couple heavy rains. If you have conditions like this you may not be satisfied with the tillage action or lack thereof that exists with a Phillips harrow.
All is not lost however.
The tines on the Phillips harrow are swept back just slightly. If you unhook each of the rolling harrows where the bearing assembly attaches to the frame, swap ends and reattach each of the harrows the tines will be swept forward just slightly. The improvement in agressiveness is dramatic. We did that on the used Phillips harrow we bought last fall and ran it on some bottom ground that had been flooded several times. WOW! In the standard factory configuration the tines barely scratched the hard soil. When turned around the tines pulverized the top inch of soil. After doing so the tines did not clean out as well in trashy conditions and if you turn the tines around I would not suggest trying to use it as a rotary hoe as it will likely be too agressive.
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Rotary Harrow
