Leveling Ground

[pitch19]

I'm trying to level a piece of land that was recently cleared... about 10 acres for planting pecan trees. I've been over it 3 times with my disk harrows already to try and keep breaking the clumps up. What is needed next to level and flatten the ground out. I've thought about another set of harrows that have smaller and more disks on them to help level it out... don't know if that would work or I have looked at a spike drag like this one Howse Spike-Tooth Harrow — 3-Point, 7ft. Length | Disc Harrows + Rakes | Northern Tool + Equipment or just making a drag of some type with chain or a telephone pole. I am leaning toward the spike drag but I have never used on and don't know how it would work.

It will be on a 3 point hook up 45hp international harvester.

Thanks!

 

[Thumper & Buttercup]

Morning,

I find that a good chain type drag levels and fills out better, I turn mine upside down with the points up so it don't fill up with any grass or weeds.

 

[LBrown59]

I'm trying to level a piece of land that was recently cleared... about 10 acres for planting pecan trees. I've been over it 3 times with my disk harrows already to try and keep breaking the clumps up. What is needed next to level and flatten the ground out. I've thought about another set of harrows that have smaller and more disks on them to help level it out... don't know if that would work or I have looked at a spike drag like this one Howse Spike-Tooth Harrow 3-Point, 7ft. Length | Disc Harrows + Rakes | Northern Tool + Equipment or just making a drag of some type with chain or a telephone pole. I am leaning toward the spike drag but I have never used on and don't know how it would work.
It will be on a 3 point hook up 45hp international harvester.
Thanks!

38 years ago I used this one to drag and
smooth out my entire 2.33 acres after getting the whole thing graded off with a dozer .
The dozer operator found it under a pile of weeds in the upper left corner of the property and set it off to the side .
I towed it with my 1966 BOLENS 850 garden tractor after the dozer work was finished .
It done a great job.
As soon as I got the job done I put the thing in this carport where it's sat un used for the last 38 years.

 

[framer]

Welcome to tbn.Wingfield flex drags looks like a good option for you.I have
6 acres don't have drag harrow.I have some areas drying to flatten out been
using Disk box blade spike harrow and pulverizer.After disking i will wait for
a rain or two clouds break up better. Good luck Framer.

 

[darkviper]

The other guys nailed it on the head with a disk and some kind of drag. However there is one final step that will finish it off just like you want it. After you have disked and draged then sow your gras seed if you are going to do that. After you sow the seed run over it with the largest and heaviest cultipacker that you can get your hands on. The cultipacker will do a few things for you. It will help level, it will crush the reamining clumps the disk does not get, it will push a lot of the rocks that come to the surface back in the ground and it will pack the grass seed in giving it a better chance at germination. I always finish a project like you describe with a cultipacker and it always yeilds excellent results.

 

[framer]

Will pulverizer do same as cultipacker?
Thanks.

 

[RWolf]

You might be able to use a landscape rake and set it to engage the ground lightly and at an angle. At least that is what I'm going to do after I finish clearing and discing.

 

[Sherweld]

Here's an interesting home made cultipacker from another forum Build it yourself cultipacker? - QDMA Forums

 

[darkviper]

sorry it took so long to get back. The answer about the pulverizer is yes and no.
See a pulverizer is a seed beed preperation tool. But you really do not want to use it after the seed is laid as it will place grass seed to deep in the ground. Now it will do a great job of leveling assuming there is no vegitation on the ground when you start. And it will make an excellent seed bed for your grass seed. If you have vegitation on the ground then you better have a FEL to get up all the vegitaiton that gathers at the end of the row. If it is a pasture like area you are fixing then the disc, drag and cultipacker is going to be hard to beat. If it is say a yard then the pulverizer would do good but you would still want to cultipack it afterwards IMHO.