Big lawn roller!

IowaTJ · May 30, 2018

My boss bought a 8230 JD yesterday to pull his 63' roller so I could roll down the bean fields that he has planted. I had to go around a couple of wet spots as they still had water in his planter tracks. I got rained out at 8:30 last night, we didn't need the rain that's for sure.

Texasmark1 · May 30, 2018

Now that's a roller. Mine is 6'.

Grandpa's Fords · May 30, 2018

Mine's only a 5' make me feel a little inadequate :shock:

Kansas4010 · May 30, 2018

What's this rain thing you talk about. I think I vaguely remember reading about it a long time ago.

grandpa Love · May 30, 2018

For us guys that don't have huge crops,why do you roll beans?

IowaTJ · May 30, 2018

They roll the bean ground to smooth it so when they harvest it in the fall they don't have any problems feeding the beans into the combine platform head. Smooth as a pool table top and the 30' head slides over it without plugging up with corn stalks and clumps of dirt.

fixerupper · May 30, 2018

For those of us in rock country a roller also pounds rocks down into the ground so they don’t end up in the combine in the fall. You need a heavy tractor hooked to a roller or it will push the tractor around.

grandpa Love · May 30, 2018

You do this after planting? Before sprouts?

IowaTJ · May 30, 2018

Yep, the 8230 isn't any too big for the roller. You could feel the back
end being pulled around.

IowaTJ · May 30, 2018

Yes, as soon as possible after planting.

grandpa Love · May 30, 2018

One thing I love about this site,all the stuff you can learn that you didn't know that you didn't know!

roy prins · May 30, 2018

My neighbor had one field done just for a test -- He said never again - the wind came up and that field dusted real bad and all the corn leaves left on top went to the fence and the ditch -- big mess -- so there is a downside to them things too -- there was a lot of dirt mixed in the leaves in the ditch so there was some top soil loss also -- Roy

Matthew L · May 30, 2018

I was rolling beans with a 15' Rite-Way and a 2-105 on the 18th. Should have took a picture!

fixerupper · May 30, 2018

iI prefer to roll before the beans come up and most farmers do it this way. If rain comes right after planting and the beans come up before rolling, then a person can wait till the first trifoliate to roll. The little beans are flexible enough to take it. Sometimes rolling after the beans are up can actually increase yield because the stems that are damaged will make more branches and more pods but rolling them at just that right time to make them bush out more is tricky and risky. The way it looks I will be rolling a few acres after the beans are up.

fixerupper · May 30, 2018

Yes a strong wind can fill the ditches and fencerows with stalks after rolling. It's just one of those chances we take.

GordoSD · May 30, 2018

I have a three section cultipacker that altogether is 12 1/2 ft/ 1 piece makes nice lawn packer Behind the Rhino, after a good rain and some seed tossed out.

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