Need advice on plow, harrow, tiller ...

[Maharaja]

Good Saturday ladies and gentlemen I have a new tractor , 70 HP. I have the need to plant a few food plots , maybe 3-4 acres for now.
I have a rotary cutter, FEL with bucket, fork frame and grapple on the way but I need to find the best economical and valuable solution to tilling ground.

Used is good.

Thanks

 

[papachaz]

Good Saturday ladies and gentlemen I have a new tractor , 70 HP. I have the need to plant a few food plots , maybe 3-4 acres for now.
I have a rotary cutter, FEL with bucket, fork frame and grapple on the way but I need to find the best economical and valuable solution to tilling ground.

Used is good.

Thanks

hello from just a few miles up hwy 27 from you! If you're looking at ground that's never been broken before, I'd get a plow and a tiller. Turn it with the plow and it'll be easier to till. You CAN just till it, but you're going to make several passes to get it broken deep, where a plow then till to break it up and smooth it out is basically just 2 passes.

of course this depends on how deep you want it turned too, because I know a lot of guys who just pull a multi gang disk with cutters up front and smooth disks on the back to do their food plots. I've done em that way and had good success, of course a lot of that depends on rain too

now if you need some help with it, and some help thinning out those pesky deer......

 

[jeff9366]

I suggest a Tandem Disc Harrow with discs 24" in diameter, slightly wider than your rear tractor tires.

Like most earth ground contact implements, weight is your friend. The weight of Disc Harrows is in the pans, hence my specification of 24" diameter pans. Your 70-horsepower tractor will use 2/3 to 3/4 throttle pulling a Tandem Disc Harrow with 24" pans in generally tough Georgia soil.

A Disc Harrow with these specs will cut through almost any unbroken ground in one pass.

Mow first, then Disc.

Adjusting the cut on a Disc Harrow is pretty simple.



Plows are fine. But a plow leaves the ground very rough, requiring a Disc Harrow or PTO powered roto-tiller to reduce the furrows.

Plows take considerable operator time to learn to adjust and use satisfactorily.

Usually you break ground with a plow in Georgia, then use a Disc alone for preparing ground in successive seasons.

So a Disc Harrow gets considerably more use than a plow.

 

[Maharaja]

Thanks Papachaz I have been to and through Cedartown many times ! If I get overrun with deer I will call!
I appreciate the advice.

Jeff9366 thanks for the advice I will start looking!

 

[prof fate]

disk..may take a few passes but i've had very good luck with them. got a used jbar (5') for $300. Nearly new. Add weight - a guy down the street with an M kubota puts a large log on his and uses a strap to keep it there.

You can adjust hte angle of the disks and with the top link the 'balance' of front to rear disks.

A tiller isn't cheap, if they even make one for 70hp. Fine for 1/2 acre..few folks use them for bigger areas.

 

[Maharaja]

Thanks prof fate

I’m thinking tandem disc harrow

I have over spent already (according to she who must be obeyed).

 

[prof fate]

Overspent? You can't take it with you...

In the past year...went from no tractor to a kubota L175, box blade, post hole auger (used, new, new) and a 4' brush hog (used)

In june sold the kubota and brush hog, got a new kioti CK3510...then forks (new), 6' brush hog, 5' disk (both used).

Picked up a form truck snow plow and plan to convert that for tractor use ASAP as snow isn't far off. I built a rear blade for the kubota from an old wheel horse blade for last winter.

Still want a hyd top link, toothed bucket (why not 2 buckets!! more options!)

 

[Egon]

Rotatiller and diamond harrow will work well for you. The rotatiller will work up and fluff the soil nicely. Broadcast seed ( hand or three point spreader ) and make a pass over it with diamond harrow. The spreader could also be used for lime & fertilizer. With a forward rotating tiller you need pto horsepower to make it work properly so size a tiller to the tractor rating.

For the first plot cultivation two Roto tillings at several weeks apart may be required to allow sod clumps to dry out. It will also allow resident seed to sprout which the second tilling will kill.

 

[Maharaja]

Thanks Egon


Prof Fate - I am on a buying spree. My sister said same as you “you cant take it with you. I said money or the tractor.
She said money. I said good then I can take the tractor?

I am enjoying the tractor @ 10 hours on it so far . M7060 with cab it’s nice !