Cheap Drag for planting seeds

[Coyote]

I am in need of a drag to cover wildlife seeds in a food plot. How about this? Local HW store sells chain link gates for kennels - 42" wide and 6' high for about $25.00. I've heard of using bed springs, this is similar, what do you think? Maybe weight it with 2x6 lumber? Opinions?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I am in need of a drag to cover wildlife seeds in a food plot. How about this? Local HW store sells chain link gates for kennels - 42" wide and 6' high for about $25.00. I've heard of using bed springs, this is similar, what do you think? Maybe weight it with 2x6 lumber? Opinions?

That'll work. Also heard of people using sections of weighted carpet as a drag. What are you seeding? and how deep? I've sown wheat then ran over it with a disc that had almost all the angle taken out. Use hitch or wheels (depending on what sort of disc you have) to let disc only go an inch or so deep. If you're seeding shallow (1/4" + or -) the drag will work just as well.

 

[ToadHill]

I use an old length of chain link fence. It works just fine.

 

[john_bud]

The only problem is that if you have much "stuff" in the soil it will pull up and gather. Roots, twigs, clippings that sort of thing. Those are usually present in a food plot situation and not in a cultivated field.

You can make a cultipacker from a length of culvert with a pipe down the middle, might work better in the long run.

I either just disperse seed and let nature take over or use the cultipacker. Dragging to cover hasn't been successful for me in foodplots.

jb

 

[wolc123]

If you are putting in clover or brassica, I have gotten as good or better results by dragging a railroad tie or similarly sized log, chained on each end, over the plot as I have by using a cultipacker. The cultipacker is the preferred tool of the majority of foodplotters however.

 

[bx23barry]

I use my ring roller but also have a log/chain drag that would work

 

[jayhaitch]

For those who use(d) chain link fence pieces, where and how do you attach the wooden weight/drawbar? Chains attached to a wooden 4x4 with the fence attached to the underside of the 4x4? Another 4x4 at the rear of the fence piece for weight? Only weight at the rear?