New attachments for food plots

[Slickheadhunter]

Should be able to do a fine job installing food plots this spring,the only thing missing is a brush hog. Once I get one of those it should be complete.



Agrex XA250 spreader

Fred Cain ripper/field tillage

Everything attachments landscape rake 3.0

Everything attachments 60in. Cultipacker

 

[jeff9366]

Excellent choices. Do you still have time to put in Fall plots there in New Hampshire?

 

[smstonypoint]

Very nice!!

Did you order your spreader and ripper from EveryThing Attchments, too?

Steve

 

[Slickheadhunter]

Very nice!!

Did you order your spreader and ripper from EveryThing Attchments, too?

Steve

Yes I bought it all through ETA.

 

[Slickheadhunter]

Excellent choices. Do you still have time to put in Fall plots there in New Hampshire?

No, far too late for this year!

 

[roostercreek]

How do you like the ratchet rake? Any problems with the straps breaking - that's what happened to my friends tool.

 

[Slickheadhunter]

I have had very good luck with the ratchet rake! I used it to install a clover field(1/2 acre) it was a lot of work with just that piece but I made due.

That landscape rake is seriously over built! It looked like it was from there videos, but in person it's a beast!
I went back and fourth on whether or not to buy the cultipacker,glad I did! It's also a tank! I have to say a cultipacker is one of the most important tools for a food plot. Very well made!

The agrex spreader is very nice with a cast gearbox, also got the shield for sand application.

The Fred Cain ripper is sinister looking, it will breakup the ground nicely for clover. My tractor with loader and filled tires is around 2900lbs and I may have to drop the outside two rippers on this 5 shank ripper,time will tell.

 

[longrangelarry]

I want to hear about the effectiveness of the rock rake- been thinking about getting one. Do you rake from scratch (excuse the pun) or till or rip first to bring up rocks? Lets say it's next spring and my fall plot is done for time to start over for the year. Would you run that ripper or a cultivator- something like that- and then rake, or just rake? I am thinking not to run the tiller until after raking because after all, the point of raking is to save the tiller tines. In that light, a cultivator or something would work best for exposing rocks. But does the rake work without some prep?

Also, you said the cultipacker seems to help a lot. Mine seems to make no difference in germination rate. But I have been using it without the weight- it seems plenty heavy, all cast iron and such. It seems to pack soil, but does it really? Recall, my soil is rocky. I have nothing to compare to. You use it to prepare the bed or set seed or both? Thanks. Interesting topic.

 

[Slickheadhunter]

I want to hear about the effectiveness of the rock rake- been thinking about getting one. Do you rake from scratch (excuse the pun) or till or rip first to bring up rocks? Lets say it's next spring and my fall plot is done for time to start over for the year. Would you run that ripper or a cultivator- something like that- and then rake, or just rake? I am thinking not to run the tiller until after raking because after all, the point of raking is to save the tiller tines. In that light, a cultivator or something would work best for exposing rocks. But does the rake work without some prep?

Also, you said the cultipacker seems to help a lot. Mine seems to make no difference in germination rate. But I have been using it without the weight- it seems plenty heavy, all cast iron and such. It seems to pack soil, but does it really? Recall, my soil is rocky. I have nothing to compare to. You use it to prepare the bed or set seed or both? Thanks. Interesting topic.

In my case my neighbor used his excavator to remove all the stumps and boulders, what's left are roots and small rocks. So in my case I would rake first then used the ripper and rake again. After raking I would roll it with the cultipacker then seed and hit it again with the roller. In your case without all the junk in the field I would rip it up, expose any junk then rake and cultipack.

After raking I will spread the lime and fertilizer then mix it in some with the ripper, rake,cultipack, seed then roll the seed in.

 

[Slickheadhunter]

I love building food plots! I guess I'm a white tail farmer