Cheyenne Bermuda - packing ground

TX656 · Jan 31, 2009

I want to try a test plot of Cheyenne II Bermuda this spring. (If I can find any seed.) Sounds like it needs a pretty firm seedbed.

James and Nancy, what has been your experience so far with the Cheyenne you planted? Anyone else tried it?

I haven't found a 10' cultipacker (the size I'd want to pull behind the drill for other crops) in this part of TX so I'm thinking of something homemade to roll/pack the ground after I disc and drag it. Anyone have any experience using a sealed culvert filled with water or a 10" pipe or something like that?. Or should I just keep looking for that cultipacker?

NHbalerman · Jan 31, 2009

Well,I don't do any of the seeded bermuda grass,I plant bermuda grass with sprigs,always heard that the seeded bermuda grass eventually goes back to common,but I do have a Brillion 10' cultipacker and I live in east Texas if that will help any. Where are you from in Texas? I will sell the cultipacker,I use heavier rollers for the sprigs.

JMS/.MN · Jan 31, 2009

I made a rubber tire packer using 20 inch gas pipe. 20 inch truck tires are hard to find, so I used 22.5, and welded half inch pipe 90 degrees, lengthwise on the gas pipe, to fill in the space. I made the pipe watertight with end caps, and can fill it with water for extra weight. Wrap around frame has 2 7/16 inch shafts on each end, found in a salvage yard. Second end cap (cookie) is about 2 feet inside from each end, stabilizes the shaft. Rolls smoothly down the road behind the grain drill.

Clefus · Jan 31, 2009

I made a quickee out of a piece of corrugated 6" metal pipe I found....made caps from 1/2" plate..welded 1" axles to those..took 2 old disc bearings with brackets...fastened that to a v tongue from an old NH crimper......welded cap on on end...tilted...filled with concrete...welded other cap on...total cost -- little welding wire/gas..can of dollar store paint and a few hours....
Works good...leaves a chevron looking pattern in the field...lol..I will get a better one as time permits...need a transportable one....

The tire one sounds like a sweet concoction... 8)

JMS/.MN · Jan 31, 2009

I might have posted the tire packer years ago- I have it in photobucket?, so I could post it here again. Only downside I heard of years ago about using a culvert, and yes, it was a larger one...maybe 18 inch...was that instead of running a pipe/shaft from one side to the other,...use a separate one on each end, otherwise they twist off in the middle. Is that for real? I do not know. I have no idea why? But the tire packer...ok, I"ll work on posting that here...I"m not good at pix!

TX656 · Jan 31, 2009

NH Balerman:

I live near Decatur. What is best way to contact you?

NHbalerman · Feb 1, 2009

Call me at this number and I am going to print it backwards,6100296309.Call me and we can do some trading if you like.

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