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Grass Seed Culitpacker?

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K-Mo

04-17-2004 09:03:21




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I'm broadcasting grass seed on tilled bare ground. Should I finish with just a spike tooth harrow, just a cultipacker or both harrow and followed by cultipacker?
Anyone have an experienced opinion?
K-Mo




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JMS/MN

04-18-2004 00:47:46




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 Re: Grass Seed Culitpacker? in reply to K-Mo, 04-17-2004 09:03:21  
I've always seeded grass or alfalfa with a grain drill, through the grass seeder- never broadcast it- if by broadcast you mean some device that blows or scatters it across the ground. However, grain drill grass seeders just distribute the grass seed above the ground, not through the disc openers, with the small grain. Years ago we used followed with a spike tooth harrow (drag), but since I've been farming I've used a coil tine harrow, until I started pulling a cultipacker behind the grain drill. That gives a better stand with less seed, and does the job in one trip. A few years ago I made a rubber tired packer using truck tires, and that also does a good job in one trip. You want the seed in the top one-half inch of the soil surface, so any tillage machine like a disc or field cultivator is likely to bury seed and waste it.

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evielboweviel

04-17-2004 12:15:24




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 Re: Grass Seed Culitpacker? in reply to K-Mo, 04-17-2004 09:03:21  
I have the best results with an old drag disk. no weights and set to cut about 2" only deep with a log chained to it. seems lik the more I use it the better stand and where I only make 1 pass looks like it was seeded with a drill. Good luck Ron



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