tillage equipment

johnwayne360 · Jul 11, 2017

still looking for tillage equipment. taking my time. lol. got by this year with an ih 500 disk and a rolling harrow. But my 7-8 mph hayfields are no longer. best i can do is 5 mph because i couldnt get it level enough. Small budget. 3k or less. only 50 acres per year. 120 hp tractor to pull whatever i buy. found two options. bush hog disk. 18 ft. 9 in spacing front, 7.5 spacing rear.$ 2750 other is a hesston 2240 field cultivator. only 3 rows of shovels. $1500. im sure the field cultivator would probably level better if it doesnt plug up. the ih disk is on 10.5 inch spacing. so it leaves a rough finish that i cant smooth with a rolling harrow. or would a spike harrow work better? i feel like im overthinking something.

JMS/.MN · Jul 11, 2017

Consider adding a three bar tine harrow to the rear of the disk or FC. They do a fine job of leveling.

jamstra · Jul 12, 2017

Best 'leveller' I ever had was a 10 foot length of steel railway track, towed on two chains behind my 10 foot disks! Acted as a crumbler and leveller all at once! And didn't bring the stones to the surface the way a harrow or set of tines would.

Brendon-KS · Jul 12, 2017

Here in central Kansas virtually everybody who tills the soil has a field cultivator equipped with a spike tooth harrow attachment. Most harrow attachments have five bars - my FIL bought a cultivator once with just three bars and fairly quickly added two more to get the smoothing he wanted. You see a few coil tine harrow attachments around but they don't seem to do as good a job with leveling as what the spike tooth will. All the cultivators here have fairly wide sweeps for complete weed kill and are typically run just an inch or two deep.

If you deal with a lot of residue the Hesston field cultivator may give grief with plugging. Newer cultivators have much more clearance, both vertical and fore/aft, and typically have four if not five rows of shanks so the shovels are wider apart. Another thing to check out on the Hesston is the condition of the shank pivot bushings as they are fairly small and wear quickly. This allows for excessive side-to-side movement of the shanks which, if being used for weed control, isn't desirable.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 12, 2017

Don't know your soil type but in my red clay you won't get anywhere without hitting it with a chisel plow first if its been in sod a long time.

paul · Jul 13, 2017

In our clayish soils disks net away in the 1970s, it's all field cultivators now.

If you are working soil to get smooth, takes primary tillage (6-12 inches deep plow or heavy disk or ripper or chisel), then smoothing tillage (2-4 inches deep field cultivator or finishing disk) and then finishing (1-2 inches deep, harrow or basket smash the lumps and firm and maybe smooth off the small ridges.

It's nice to do so,e of the passes at different angles to work across the ridges previous passes created.

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