disc or feild cultivator

dustin e

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Hi I want to plant winter weat in an old hay feild I don't have a plow just a disc and a vibrashank 45 what's best way to preoare feild for f/s to air seed it
 
seems when ever I use the disc its not heavy enough to go very deep has a spot to put a shank but have yet to find one I think that might pull it deeper
 
seems when ever I use the disc its not heavy enough to go very deep has a spot to put a shank but have yet to find one I think that might pull it deeper
 
I had an 1800 with a 13.6' kew disk with new 16" blades. It did not do a good job on hay ground. I picked up a 4X14 IHC plow and use that on hay ground. The plow cost $75.00 and I had to put plow lays on it. The 4X14 IHC plow was all it would handle. I have a IHC field cultivator and I don't see how it would do you any good for primary tillage in hay ground.
 
yeah that's what I'm afraid of I don't think it will penatrate the ground good enough I was wondering if I hit it with the disc a couple times then levelit out with cultivator would be good enough only 10 acre feild was going to spend weekend working it
 
Rock and a hard place there. Disk and field cultivators are secondary tillage items (well there are big heavy disks, but not what you have....)
and you need primary tillage to do a good job on killing off and working up a grass field.

Are you going to spray it first with roundup or graximone?

The. You could chip at it with both implements and work it up some and get somewhere.

If you want to be organic about it, well good luck, you won't be able to kill grasses off enough for wheat.....

Paul
 
you may be able to run over it with the disk 4 or 5 times and make some headway but that is a lot of trips around and around. Might be best if you can borrow a plow. I tried a chisel plow on hayground this fall, tore it up but not good enough to reseed, left too much grass on top.
 
That shank is to get rid of the little 2" wide uncut strip left between the 2 front gangs. It will not do anything to make it cut deeper. Most makes had an option for that but it was never used as if you disked twice that strip was gone anyway. You need an 18" diameter blade, anything smaller is wore out. What will help is if you can find 4 tractor wheel weights and put one on each gang to make it heavier.
 
I ran a field cultivator over the mowed short grass this fall waited a day or two, and then ran a twisted chisel plow over it twice. That worked pretty good, the field cultivator killed off the kraut so the chisel could work it up without so many lumps and clods.

Paul
 
Dustin, are you attempting to be organic or not use spray. if so I agree with a few of the others it's going to be hard to kill the grass. if your not going organic/natural then use the sprays, disk the outside and burn off the organic matter and disk the field before planting. if you are organic/natural use either a organic cert weed burn down or vinegar/clove oil/lemon juice concentrate mix and burn down the field. then disk firebreak and burn field. With the organic matter removed your disk should cut. Wait 12 to 14 days and disk again to kill any regrowth. Then plant. not sure if you can get it done yet this season. It's kinda late isn't it. too bad you couldn't find a chisel plow with spikes. that would help break up compaction before disking.
 

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