Now That The Grubbing's Done

[LBrown59]

Now That The Grubbing\'s Done

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Originally I was planning to have somebody come in and plow then disk the area.
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Now I'm wondering about just tilling it instead.

Which way would you go?

Any other ideas/suggestions.
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[Highbeam]

Re: Now That The Grubbing\'s Done

Is the soil rocky and rough or smooth and rock free? Do you intend to make a lawn out of it or just mow down the grasses and brush?

A heavy disc round and round and round should chop up surface debris and level out the humps well enough for pasture.

 

[LBrown59]

Re: Now That The Grubbing\'s Done

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( 1*Is the soil rocky and rough or smooth and rock free?
2*Do you intend to make a lawn out of it or just mow down the grasses and brush?

A heavy disc round and round and round should chop up surface debris and level out the humps well enough for pasture. )</font>

1*No rocks but plenty of 1 to 2 inch roots under ground left from the removed trees and brush. it's sorta wavey where brush and trees were cleared. Just need the soil broken down pretty fine so it can be raked or leveled out knocking off the high spots and filling in the low ones.
2*Some where Kinda between a lawn and a pasture,

 

[MMM]

Re: Now That The Grubbing\'s Done

You can pull a crosstie etc behind disc and get a fair job. Any major humps will have to be cut with fel.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Re: Now That The Grubbing\'s Done

The contractor I work for has an excavating contractor that uses a HEAVY offset disc behind a crawler tractor to chop up rough ground that's recently been cleared.

You might speak with a few excavators in your area to see what they recommend. Let the roots rot a few years before taking them on with a plow. Big roots will wreak havoc on a tiller.

Short of that, just get a conventional disc, weight it down as heavy as your (or another) tractor can handle. Pull some sort of drag behind the disc. (cross tie, steel pipe, or a weighted piece of chain link fence) That will drag dirt off the high spots and deposit it in the low spots.