Newbie Disk/Tiller Question

   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #1  

LeadPoison

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Do you need both?

Do you always disk then till? or can I just till without bothering with disking?

My guess is for hard ground disk first, otherwise just till?

Am I correct?
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #2  
You can certainly disk or plow first and then till. That may make the tilling go faster and easier, but I never had a disk, so I just tilled; sometimes two or three passes. If you go slow on multiple passes, you'll eventually get the same results.
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #3  
If you are talking Rototilling you do not need a disk.

Egon
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #4  
I never till, after plowing I run a spike harrow over the ground to prepare a seed bed. In this heavy clay soil, tillin' just means the soil will become concretelike when it dries.
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #5  
I havent had my tractor long but I wouldnt trade the tiller for anything. You dont need to plow or disc it before hand, though it does make life easier in hard dry ground. Like Bird said, take it slow and do a couple of pass' and you wont have any trouble.

Now, if you have allot of rocks, get a chissel plow or disc because the tiller will beat you and the tractor to death. I learned this while tag teaming a food plot with my buddy. he ended up doing the rocky area with a plow, while I tilled the rest.
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question
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#6  
I think using the disk and then the harrow is the best idea for me. I have some large fields that I feel would just take too long with the rototiller. It's just for deer and I don't think they will complain if don't till.
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #7  
I have both and use both, the disk harrow will bring a lot of rocks to the surface so they can easily be removed saving yourself some wear on that tiller
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #8  
My disk ain't moved from behind the barn since I got my tiller. I guess there could be a situation where I might want to use both, but so far that situation has not come up.
 
   / Newbie Disk/Tiller Question #9  
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Same here!

I spent the first 20 years of my "farming carreer" with a GARBAGE John Deere RWA disc. I finally bought a nice IH 10'er a few years ago. The VERY NEXT SEASON, I started no-tilling my little corn crop, bought a no-till grass drill for hayfield and pasture re-works, and a KK tiller for the garden. The "nice IH disc" hasn't moved (except to mow the weeds growing up through it) since.

MAybe someday, when weeds all adapt to glyphosate, and we have to go back to conventional tillage corn, I'll get to use that ol' disc. Until then, there IS a better way.
 
 
 
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