Cultipacker questions.

[BufordBoone]

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Here is an offset disk harrow. It is more aggressive than a tandem disk and requires more power, but you have plenty of HP. I've got one food plot that was so torn up by hogs I had to creep over it to mow. I'm going to hit it with my rototiller this weekend and see how it works. Rototillers do a great job of busting clods and smoothing dirt to a fine and fluffy texture (sometimes too fluffy), but you can't go very fast.

Thanks (to both) for the video of the offset disc. Skipperbrown, please post hoe the tiller works. I've considered getting a tiller but wonder if it would be so slow as to make it more economical to just run the disc over 5-10 times.

 

[rbtjr]

We have a 980 lb 8' cultipacker we bought from Everything Attachments. For food plots we disk thoroughly (in at least two directions). We disk once or twice (usually once), spread the fertilizer and then disk again (this is usually the second disking). When the soil is dry or almost so, we run the cultipacker over the plot to break up most of the remaining clods. This creates little furrows like Skipperbrown said, and creates a pretty good seed bed. I would say that these furrows in our case are 1/2" (mostly) to 1" deep. We run the cultipacker perpendicular to the slope of the plot to try to slow the drainage of the rain. Then we seed and run the cultipacker over the plot again in the same direction. This depresses most of the seed slightly into the soil. This process works well for us.

 

[BufordBoone]

Lots of great info. Thanks to all.

 

[airbiscuit]

 

[airbiscuit]

Make one of these!

 

[airbiscuit]

 

[BufordBoone]

With all your help, I may have an answer.

I will probably get a heavyweight (~100lbs/ft) cultipacker that I can pull behind a UTV. I'll have the connection be a pintle ring. I have a Pintle hook that goes in a 2" receiver so that will work well with my UTV.

I'll also weld a 2" receiver on my disc. That way I can use the Pintle hook in the receiver and picking up the disc should put significantly less stress on the connection than if I used a standard 2" ball hitch.

Therefore, I'll be able to disc and cultipack on every pass...or do them on different passes.

The cultipacker will also be a great help in planting food plots.

I hope this all works out.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[airbiscuit]

Good plan, although I did like that homemade cultimulcher! Post pics or video of your plan on action.

 

[Jkott]

I have a lot of sandy soil, so when it’s dry it tends to bunch up in front of the cultipacker. Even under normal circumstances, it doesn’t make it “smooth”. It makes a lot of ridges and the notches push seen into the soil. The tire tracks are usually visible as they pressed deeper than even my 600 lb 3 pt 5’ cultipacker. Btw, mine is convertible and can be pulled behind either the 3 pt or an atv. I got that so my neighbor could pull it behind his atv instead of me having to do his plots...

To be honest, the smoothest and tightest pack I have gotten behind my CUT is bolting 3 larger pickup truck tires together and dragging them with a chain behind the tow bar. They tend to make the ground very smooth, even, and tightly packed. And they have the advantage of being free just for the asking at a tire shop.

Only drawback to the tires is transporting them. I used to just put them in the bucket, but 3 of them are heavy and that’s manual labor and defeats the point of a tractor. I need to see about finding a 3 pt boom pole on sale and the right length chain links to raise and lower it in a useful manner without it swinging when transporting.

 

[airbiscuit]