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Phil..... ...You and I ain't gonna believe what I'm about to suggest. For 1 acre of ground and NO IMPLEMENTS, yer better served renting a small tractor with roto-tiller for the 1 hr that it will take you to till yer acre. Heres the deal. Even used implements gonnna cost ya about $250 each. New implements about $500+. Small tractor with roto-tiller gonnna cost ya $100/hr to rent. The rest of the deal. N-Tractors are NOT ROTO-TILLING machines, period!!! They're 2-bottom plowing machines. To answer your questions. 1) The N-Tractor was designed to pull 2 (ea) 14" plows ...ie... 2-bottom plow. It took 4 horses to pull a 2-bottom plow. New cat-1, 14" 2-bottom plows are $500.
3) The N-Tractor will pull a 6' cat-1 3-point tandom disc (the most common; looks like an "X") $700; or 7' off-set (looks like a "V") Most off-set discs are NOT 3-point liftable.
4) Yes, there are several short-line implement manufacturers, House, Lineback, Brushhog, are several mfgs. 5) Yes, there is some science to being a plowman, and setting up a plow. There are many instructions available on "how to plow" including, would you believe?, your N-Ford OWNERS MANUAL. 6) Kill your grass with round-up? Depends upon your cultivation practices and what you are going to do with your newly plowed ground. Remember, everytime you plow, you bring new "weedseed" to the surface. You also have to consider soil and moisture conservation. But as a general rule, overwinter fallow plowing, you don't spray to kill vegetation 'cuz the plowing will do that. And besides next spring you will have to work the ground again to gittitt ready for whatever you're gonnna be growing, SPRAY THEN, and kill the weeds. Farmers gottalong for many years with mechanical weed control, and took pride in having a clean field. Weeds are any plant growing someplace un-wanted. Alfalfa growing in a corn field is a weed. Yet alfalfa is a great rotational crop to use with corn because alfalfa puts NITROGEN into the soil and corn NEEDS nitrogen to really produce..... .....Dell
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