GaryE
Platinum Member
Spring will be here soon and as soon as mud season is over I will be tackling one of my fields(attached). It is about 2 acres over all. When I bought the place about 9 years ago the field had been plowed and left that way for years before I got here. It was a series of 3' deep toughs running the length of the field. The ground had settled and was as hard as rock. My first year here, I asked one of the local farmers if he could clean it up with his disks, he said it was so dug up and and full of rocks about the only thing he could do was to roto till it or come in with a bull dozer. Not wanting to compact it any more than it was I told him to go at it with his roto tiller.
He did a pretty good job and now the field looks decent. But I would like to get it to the point I could use a finish mower on it. Every winter this field seems to grow more rocks, this is Maine after all! So every spring I harvest the new crop. Which leads me to my question.
Given this field is full of some large (100 lbs) rocks, would a Box Blade even work? Or should I use my FEL and BH? I rarely see a Box Blade up here, but I see rozett uses one. But from where I am, he is in the DEEP South! If I do try a Box Blade, should I go with a 6' ? I will be dragging it with a L3710, if it ever gets here!
Thanks in advance for any input.
Gary
He did a pretty good job and now the field looks decent. But I would like to get it to the point I could use a finish mower on it. Every winter this field seems to grow more rocks, this is Maine after all! So every spring I harvest the new crop. Which leads me to my question.
Given this field is full of some large (100 lbs) rocks, would a Box Blade even work? Or should I use my FEL and BH? I rarely see a Box Blade up here, but I see rozett uses one. But from where I am, he is in the DEEP South! If I do try a Box Blade, should I go with a 6' ? I will be dragging it with a L3710, if it ever gets here!
Thanks in advance for any input.
Gary