Posted by Fixerupper on January 26, 2011 at 10:55:42 from (207.199.205.40):
In Reply to: How to disc a field? posted by Nofbdybs on January 25, 2011 at 18:11:38:
What kind of soil? Where do you live? Here in NW Iowa in our black soil country if you make more than two trips over a field in the spring you are cursed with packed soil for the rest of the year.
Three years ago I worked about an acre of sod in August when we are hot and dry. I plowed it about 5 inches deep, then worked it to death and when I finally put the tractor away it was like moon dust. It was really nice to level but was so soft the tractor (SC Case) left fairly deep wheel track depressions. This was a little higher ground that had soil with a slightly brown tint. I disced twice, harrowed several times, then rolled with an old ancient field roller. When I got done working it that soil was as dry as the desert. Then I broadcast seeded it twice, from two directions, then rolled it twice again. Turned out very smooth but the wheel tracks did show a bit. Got lucky and had good rains and it made me look like a professional landscaper. One neighbor asked me how I got such a good looking job and I told him I just went round and round with the tractor till I got tired of it, then I went the other way and went round and round. Remember, this was in the middle of summer when we were really dry. If I would have done this in the spring I would have ended up with an acre of hard packed parking lot. Jim
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