The shorter the stumps, the less chance of tire damage. When the 4440 is pulling that six bottom the tires will be scratching and clawing, and, well, you get the idea. $1500 for a new rear tire! If the plow doesn't turn up stumps it will trip over them. The stumps that are turned up will have to be picked out of the field by hand, and when you go to pick one up there will still be one root in the ground that will be ancoring it down. Then you get the loader and chain. If it was mine I'd no-till for a few years to let the stumps rot before you plow it.
A couple of years ago the people I harvest with planted soybeans into 40 acres that came out of CRP. It had a pretty heavy population of cedar trees so the farm manager that oversaw the land had someone come in with a skid steer with a shear. He cut them off at ground level and they gave no problem. However, there was one corner, maybe three acres, that the landowner said he would handle himself with a chainsaw. The landowner left some 4" to 8" stumps. The beans were no-tilled and that fall when the combine went through, those stumps the landlord left did major damage to the cutterbar to the tune of $3000 for a new 40" cutterbar. Jim
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