no till drill

crowe farm · Jan 13, 2012

anyone run a no till drill in the spring to sow grass . how heavy of ground can you run it or will it cloug up with mud . thanks

AKfish · Jan 14, 2012

crowe farm said:
anyone run a no till drill in the spring to sow grass . how heavy of ground can you run it or will it cloug up with mud . thanks

Are you gonna use it on "black dirt" or sod field? Guess you already know.. plugging will be a pain with a tilled up field. And impossible - pert near - if it's even kinda wet. Drier is better (course that even applies to a regular drill).

AKfish

One additional consideration - if you're planting in dirt - you'll need to back way off on the depth setting and the down pressure. That makes a big difference in how bad the plugging might be.

whitmerlegacyfarm · Jan 14, 2012

I'm considering renting a no till drill from the local coop in the spring guess they will show me how to use it i hope lol. I'm wanting to overseed my grass/hayfields to fill them in and make a little better hay.

crowe farm · Jan 14, 2012

i want to overseed my alfalffa fields with orchard grass and timothy in the sprin the spring also . i dont want to rent it then the ground be to heavy and cant use it

bigbull338 · Jan 14, 2012

he only way i know of avoiding plugging a notill drill is to not plant in muddy sod.

Grateful11 · Jan 14, 2012

My wife rented a 7' Frontier, made by Haybuster, and sod drilled fescue into about half the pastures last Spring. It worked well, no clogging of course because no there had been no tillage. She put it behind the IH 574 and it knew it was back there, with about 400+ lbs of pressure on each opener it pulled on it a bit but it handled it fine.

Hoosier Hay Man · Jan 14, 2012

I rented this 10ft no till drill twice and it done a dandy job. I no-tilled alfalfa/orchard grass in soybean stubble and then the next year in sod. I did burn down the sod and used oats as a cover crop. It helps keep weeds at bay to let the grass and alfalfa get going. The oats grows fast providing a cover and I was able to cut it in late June/early July for hay.