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Horsemanureman

03-14-2004 08:38:04

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Am a transferred city boy eagerly trying to learn a little about farming. Have a 27 hp Kubota tractor with industrial tires, bucket, 4wd, belly mower, rear blade, chisel plow, middle buster and landscape rake and am now looking for something to further prepare gardens and wildlife food plots on my 35 acres here in Wisconsin. My daughter has 3 horses, so am continually hauling manure and spoiled hay and covering my garden and food plots. Am contemplating buying a KingKutter 5 1/2 ft Angle Frame Disc Harrow with the expectation that it will cut up all the hay and manure and turn it into the soil surface. Is this the right tool for the job. Between garden and food plot there are probably 4-5 acres.

Thanks for any advice.

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greenbeanman

03-14-2004 10:39:29

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Re: Disc in reply to Horsemanureman, 03-14-2004 08:38:04

For a garden area I'd opt for a roto-tiller to mix the manure, straw, and soil.

However for food plots for wildlife, I don't think you will want that much residue worked in leaving so much bare ground.

If you can I would pile manure until fall, then work it into the garden area with lots of straw. Kind of like sheet composting. Straw needs the nitrogen from the manure to help it break down. You could also add extra straw on top as an insulating blanket, and in the spring you will probably find lots and lots of earthworms have been working a good share of the winter.

In one garden I had of sandy soil I never found any earthworms unless I added residue in the fall. The next spring they were everywhere leaving the soil in great condition.

I expect a disk may ride over a lot of straw intead of cutting in. You will probably want notched discs so that the gang keeps turning instead of pushing material ahead of it.

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Rick

03-14-2004 08:46:03

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Re: Disc in reply to Horsemanureman, 03-14-2004 08:38:04

It all depends on how good your spreader spreads it. If it leaves clumps the disc will scatter it some but will still be clumped or it might just puch it ahead and not slice thru it. Do you have a single or 3 beater spreader. That makes alot difference

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Horsemanureman

03-14-2004 09:37:17

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Re: Re: Disc in reply to Rick, 03-14-2004 08:46:03

Thanks Rick. My manure and hay spreader is a pitchfork off the back of my pickup. Spent yesterday out in a blizzard busting hay bales and tearing them apart with a pitchfork and hand scattering them over the garden.

Since we have winter most of the year here in Wisconsin, you can let a little snow get in the way.

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riverbend

03-15-2004 07:15:13

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Re: Re: Re: Disc in reply to Horsemanureman, 03-14-2004 09:37:17

I'd pile and compost the horse manure that you were going to use in the garden. A lot of weed seeds seem to go right through a horse.

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