Early 4 Cyl. 4000 and 7 Point Chisel

Tom Bond · Apr 14, 2014

3 years ago I cleared a few acres for food plots with a Gyro-Trac. Sprayed what small stumps were left at ground level. None were bigger then 4". They're all dead and decayed now. I have the opportunity to pick up a nice 7 point chisel for a good price. Question is, do you think my 4 cyl. 4000 would pull it thru all the dead stuff to work up the food plot? I've had clover in there for 3 years now and would like to get some turnips down. Here's a few pictures of what it looked like when done shredding. Also a short video of how we did it.
http://youtu.be/I_b5L-KQf98

Dean · Apr 14, 2014

No chance.

Dean

NNP · Apr 15, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:08:17 04/14/14) No chance.

Dean

agree
even one medium root, decayed or not...backed up by packed dirt and the endless Earth, will stop a tractor in its tracks.
(it can't 'bend' to break underground, so unless it cuts thru clean, you're done right there.)

If you don't want to hire a dozer and ripper,
I'd drag it sorta clean with a landscape rake.
Then buy an old beat up disk, so you don't wreck your good one, and go over it again, and again.

James Wilson · Apr 15, 2014

I pull a five shank chisel with my 74 4000, in fields that I till every
year.It is all the 4000 want. I can pull it 11 inches deep in clay
ground, but any deeper will stall the tractor. Now that I have let the
water out of the tires, it may not pull it at all.

sotxbill · Apr 15, 2014

use a spring toothed ripper with modified blades.. it will do exactly what you want and the arms will simply pull back when you hit a stump or root, and or pull them out. After a few years with it, your field will be clean. But... you have to walk the field after you use it to pick up all the stumps and roots it pulls out

.http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=spring+tooth+ripper&id=A92F3F9A4222F1C6A17346A7D1CEF53E837F9F30&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=A92F3F9A4222F1C6A17346A7D1CEF53E837F9F30&selectedIndex=0

This is the model I have used very successfully. The factory teeth are "quag" teeth and can be flipped over to use the other end when they get dull. They are excellent for cleaning new fields. Just a lot of walking to pick up all the crap they pull out is all. you can put small cultivator points on them as well.

Bill Allis · Apr 15, 2014

When we worked up some old cutover in Alabama. I
used a subsoiler like a plow, and then the teeth on
my box blade and then the disk. It was slow but I
like to ride the old 801 tractor. And it is all
sandy clay, no stone.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2014

The rule for a chisel plow is each chisel point needs 10 horsepower. Long time ago I tried a 7 point chisel on a 1967 Diesel Ford 4000 in new ground and it was slow and not deep.

James Wilson · Apr 16, 2014

I do not no how big of a tractor you have. A off set disc is what you
need. I have a five foot taylorway, but a five foot is hard to find. A
six foot and a ten foot is easy to find.A five foot is all a 4000 will
pull, unless you put duals own with water in them. I saw a six foot
ford off set own tractor house.A off set disc will cut roots, they use
them on building roads.They are for farming.

Errin OH · Apr 16, 2014

Nope, even if by chance you had enough power, you wouldn't
have enough traction. Tractor is to light.

Look at how much weight is added just to pull a three bottom
plow.

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