Olympus
Platinum Member
Hey gents, I need some advice. I just had two acres of woods cleared for food plots, two separate sites that are 1 acre each. The excavator guy did a good job of getting all the big chunks of roots and rocks out, but there are still some smaller roots sticking up and some smaller rocks, so I don't think it would be a good idea to start using my tiller yet. So I'm looking at buying a used disc harrow strictly for food plot tilling. I'm concerned that my little LS J2023 won't have enough traction to pull a decent sized disc, so I'm thinking about borrowing my father in law's John Deere 950 2WD. It's 31 or 32HP and has front weights, so it should be well over 3000lbs plus it has ag tires instead of the R4s that my LS has. So I'm trying to decide what the biggest disc that the 950 could pull. I've seen some YouTube videos of tractors that are smaller than the 950 pulling a 6.5" disc without any problem, so I'm thinking that a 7.5" disc should not be a problem. But I wanted to get some thoughts from the experts here. We're talking a 950, although 2WD, it's a gear tranny, heavy tractor with ag tires, so it get pretty good traction to pull. My sites are on top of a ridge, so there won't be any problems with muddy or low spots so there's not much potential for getting stuck. So what say you all?
My overall plan would be to use the disc harrow and buy a used landscape rake for the first few years in order to get a good amount of the rocks and root chunks removed and then maybe it would be in a good enough condition to use a tiller lightly instead of the disc.
My overall plan would be to use the disc harrow and buy a used landscape rake for the first few years in order to get a good amount of the rocks and root chunks removed and then maybe it would be in a good enough condition to use a tiller lightly instead of the disc.