Pulverizer Use.

[mgrick]

I read in another post that someone used a pulverizer to break up the top soil prior to seeding.I would like to plant some food plots in my fields.Rather than getting several implements like a mold board and harrow I was wondering if I could get away with just spraying with roundup and just going over it after with a pulverizer.Any opinions on this?Hate to get one and find out it doesn't do the job.

Rick

 

[CTyler]

I wouldn't spray anything to kill off stuff for a food plot.

Go over it with your box blade and scrape off whats there. Then put the rippers down and tear it up. Now go rent a tiller instead of a pulveriser. Actually you could just go over with the tiller but ripping it first will make the tilling go faster.

 

[micromike]

A Pulverizer does a great job of breaking up the soil for shallow rooted plants like grass. I guess it would depend on what you are planting.

Before power rakes, a pulverizer was THE machine to break up the soil to install lawns. They often sprayed Round Up to kill off the weeds. If they had time, they would spray, wait several days and water the heck out of to germinate any more weed seeds, and spray again. Then wait 10 days to two weeks before planting the grass seed.

Just curious. What are you going to plant?

mike

 

[mgrick]

Mike...

I'll propably will be planting a mixture of clover and alfalfa.I had my brother come over last year with a walk behind rototiller and we planted a small patch of Whitetail Ins. clover.I didn't spray it with Roundup first and the weeds and grass came back in.

I suppose I could try my box scraper but I thought a pulveriser might work to break up the surface and plant the seeds without using a lot of different implements.It's also somewhat rocky and I don't know how a rototiller for my tractor would hold up.

Rick

 

[shady1701]

I know after talking to some soybean farmers they use some type of roundup or something to kill off there vegitation then they plant they have some air drills and replant it with clover/soybean year to year

 

[Slamfire]

If I took the front axle off my disc and put spring tooth cultivator blades on there, put a drill behind the second row of discs, and towed a roller of a design similar to a pulverizer, I think I'd have as good an implement for small grains. One pass and you are out of there. Somebody had the same idea, I see these implements touted as the ideal thing to tow behind your four wheeler, I just can't remember the name. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
I think I have "old timer's" disease.

 

[MLB]

Yes a pulverizer will do a beautiful job for what you want. Multiple passes will loosen to 3-4" inches.
On hard ground, you WON'T scrape off existing vegitation with a plain box, and if you used the scarifiers then you wouldn't need to till.
On my Woods super renovater you can "crab" the rollers (set the front ones at angle to the rear roller for maximum tearing. Run them parallel for maximum smoothing.
I seeded a weedy roadside area today. Put them at tearing and made maybe 15 passes to have a nicely broken up surface and the existing vegatation 90% gone. THen straightened the front rollers and used the seeder box. It drops the seed between the two rollers so the front roller prepares the surface and the rear covers the seed. Can even use it in very windy conditions as the seed falling is protected from the wind. WOnderful machine (but $4500) If I wanted ALL the veg gone I would spray with round up. Glyphosphate has a very short life in the soil.

 

[mgrick]

I see O' Bryan's has a 5' single roller Bush Hog pulveriser for 795.00 and a 6' double roller for 1095.00.I e-mailed them a couple days ago for shipping cost but have heard nothing back.The dealership I bought my tractor from is shut down and on vacation for 2 weeks,so I can't get a price from them either.

MLB...

I've seen a picture of the Gill Super Turf Renovator in my Woods Brochure,nice looking piece of equipment,a little hard though to justify the price for the use.

Rick

 

[CTyler]

In my reply to you I was thinking garden for some reason.

Your BB and a pulverisor would work fine.

 

[Slamfire]

Here's one I got from a site about homebuilding attachments.