I was wondering if anyone knew where to get a set of knives for building my own pasture renovator. I found some nice carbide fertilizer knives at a local place but I'm not sure if they will go deep enough being used as a renovator. It looks like they will only cut maybe 8-10 inches deep.
I've got different sized toolbars all over the farm from when cotton was planted here and I was wanting to mount between 8 and 10 renovator shanks on one of them to do my pastures with. My biggest giant bermuda pasture is pure hardpan right now and water just sits on top and evaporates. Or runs off. That's not good.
I've bot one toolbar set up with 6 big mouldboard plows. The plows are mounted on pieces of 4 inch by 3/8 thick flat steel stock. I think that's the size, just eyeballing it.
It would be great if I could take off the plow bottoms and weld on thin hardened shanks for ripping narrow slots in the ground. Those pieces of flat stock are more than long enough to do the job.
I may be using the wrong terminology doing my searches for parts. I'm new at this so who knows. Any help with ideas or parts sources that will save me a lot of money would be much appreciated. With the price of fuel these days money is something I don't have a surplus of.
Any suggestions?
I've got 100 HP and 4 wheel drive. GOing by many of the HP calculators given for commercially made renovators I should be fine with 8-10 shanks.
Last thing,
Almost all of the new renovators I've been seeing have coulters mounted on the front. Is this really necessary? My horses have the pasture mowed down to about 2 inches or so right now and the ground is clean. I don't think the coulters would cut it anyway.
I've got different sized toolbars all over the farm from when cotton was planted here and I was wanting to mount between 8 and 10 renovator shanks on one of them to do my pastures with. My biggest giant bermuda pasture is pure hardpan right now and water just sits on top and evaporates. Or runs off. That's not good.
I've bot one toolbar set up with 6 big mouldboard plows. The plows are mounted on pieces of 4 inch by 3/8 thick flat steel stock. I think that's the size, just eyeballing it.
It would be great if I could take off the plow bottoms and weld on thin hardened shanks for ripping narrow slots in the ground. Those pieces of flat stock are more than long enough to do the job.
I may be using the wrong terminology doing my searches for parts. I'm new at this so who knows. Any help with ideas or parts sources that will save me a lot of money would be much appreciated. With the price of fuel these days money is something I don't have a surplus of.
Any suggestions?
I've got 100 HP and 4 wheel drive. GOing by many of the HP calculators given for commercially made renovators I should be fine with 8-10 shanks.
Last thing,
Almost all of the new renovators I've been seeing have coulters mounted on the front. Is this really necessary? My horses have the pasture mowed down to about 2 inches or so right now and the ground is clean. I don't think the coulters would cut it anyway.
