Leveling semi-packed dirt after removing brush?

[CodeMonkey]

I am removing brush (brambles, saplings, weeds and grass) from about 4 acres around my house.

The area has been thinned by loggers who removed a lot of brush and some stumps.

Then we spent a few hours going through some areas with a dozer we had for an afternoon.

Then some more brush removal and a little leveling with an excavator.

The big excavator the logger used left huge ruts (it was winter). The dozer leveled some of that, but left ruts too, just not as big, as did the excavator.

Now I am left with some ground that it still not very level. I have a neighbor with a box scraper on his compact 4WD tractor, but there are still areas that his tractor probably can't get into easily because of the trees.

I want to level some of this off to make it easier to mow and landscape it somewhat.

What would be a good way to do this with my 2 wheel tractors?

I have a rototiller. Would that work about as well as a rotary plow?

 

[bcp]

I don't know if your BCS will pull it, but here is where I would start.

Get a solid RR tie and put about a 1/4 by 2 steel bar along one edge as a cutting blade. Add a tongue of a length that you can stand on the tie and run the tractor. The tongue should be solidly fastened to the tie and free to rotate and turn on the tractor hitch, like a conventional trailer ball or a loose fitting pin. Add a plywood platform the length of the tie and about 16 inches wide.

To use it, drive forward and lower the handles to cut. Raise the handles to spread. Move from side to side on the tie to make one side cut more. Step off the tie to the rear and lift the handles if it gets overloaded.

Drive lengthways on the ridges to begin with. If you have large dips or hills, they should be filled or knocked down. Then when they are knocked down, drive in a pattern like mowing a lawn, then do it again 90 degrees to the first passes. Repeat as needed. If you have large dips or hills, they should be filled or knocked down.

A shorter tie or smaller timber may be needed it the RR tie is too heavy to pull.

Bruce

 

[CodeMonkey]

Interesting.

I have RR ties and logs.

Don't know if the tractor will pull them though.

My truck would, but it can't get everywhere.

I'll think about it.

 

[Egon]

The roto tiller and then harrow.

 

[CodeMonkey]

I'll have to check into that - although I don't particularly want to spend another $2k to get a power harrow.

 

[joecoin]

get a blade

Earth Tools

 

[joecoin]

get a blade

Earth Tools

 

[CodeMonkey]

get a blade

Earth Tools

From what I have seen, those wouldn't work for this purpose. They would only move loose dirt and only a little bit at a time. I will probably get one for other work, including snow removal, but I don't think it would work very well for this.

 

[farmerboybill]

I don't think he meant power harrow.

 

[farmerboybill]

I don't think he meant power harrow.

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