HUCKthe1
Bronze Member
I have a half acre field that I just planted trees on this spring. I know I should have smoothed the field before i started but had the chance to get the trees this spring and the field was too wet to work.
The field is just rough as **** to try to mow and beats you to death almost no matter how slow you go. The field has not been worked besides a few bush hogging in the past 20 years. It is not too bad to mow North to South as that seems to be the way most of the ruts are running. It is going East to West that is unbearable. It is very rough either way in the foreground side of my picture attached. In that photo in the foreground is a swell that is a wetland area in the spring and fall. I have been getting extra fill from this area to open it up and hope to aid in draining the area where the trees are.
I have disced between the rows going N-S, E-W, and diagonally. It has broke things up but still have spots that are very rough. I hate to take up all the grass that is there but need this field smoother than it is so i can mow it. I will have to maintain this for the next few years till the trees become established.
I have a box blade but hate to clear off everything as I did my trail to the area as you can see in the photo.
What can I do to smooth this out without too much damage to the grass that is there? Can I just disc it ever so often as it drys to try to get it broke up? Is the box blade my only option?
The field is just rough as **** to try to mow and beats you to death almost no matter how slow you go. The field has not been worked besides a few bush hogging in the past 20 years. It is not too bad to mow North to South as that seems to be the way most of the ruts are running. It is going East to West that is unbearable. It is very rough either way in the foreground side of my picture attached. In that photo in the foreground is a swell that is a wetland area in the spring and fall. I have been getting extra fill from this area to open it up and hope to aid in draining the area where the trees are.
I have disced between the rows going N-S, E-W, and diagonally. It has broke things up but still have spots that are very rough. I hate to take up all the grass that is there but need this field smoother than it is so i can mow it. I will have to maintain this for the next few years till the trees become established.
I have a box blade but hate to clear off everything as I did my trail to the area as you can see in the photo.
What can I do to smooth this out without too much damage to the grass that is there? Can I just disc it ever so often as it drys to try to get it broke up? Is the box blade my only option?