farming on a budget

[DRussell]

6 inches is pretty high hay stubble.

 

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I drilled in my first crop of soybeans this year. I literally say first crop as my father passed and left the farm to me. I have done wheat and corn and felt soybeans was my choice for this year. Anyway, I pulled a cultipacker behind my drill on the clay. I wanted the seed to have as much soil contact as I could give it. It turned out great and leveled the ground as it was planted.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

I drilled in my first crop of soybeans this year. I literally say first crop as my father passed and left the farm to me. I have done wheat and corn and felt soybeans was my choice for this year. Anyway, I pulled a cultipacker behind my drill on the clay. I wanted the seed to have as much soil contact as I could give it. It turned out great and leveled the ground as it was planted.

I like your rig. I planted thousands of acres of small grains and hay seeds with a IH 510 drill pulling a culti-packer just like you. Worked like a charm

 

[jwal10]

Planting wheat in the fall, I always ran a flex harrow between the drill and sprocket roller. Long hitch, 3 sections, 8' center and 2-3' wings....James

 

[tom upton]

I drilled in my first crop of soybeans this year. I literally say first crop as my father passed and left the farm to me. I have done wheat and corn and felt soybeans was my choice for this year. Anyway, I pulled a cultipacker behind my drill on the clay. I wanted the seed to have as much soil contact as I could give it. It turned out great and leveled the ground as it was planted.

The main reason I dont do it like you in one pass is on my ground there are always rocks that stick up even after rolling, and you cant really stop to pick up rocks when you are sewing or you will see the evidence when the grain comes up. I go around the field with the harrows and roller and then on the next pass stop and pick up what the rollers dont drive into the ground. Works pretty good, but near the end your eyesight becomes more "selective" shall we say! I also have rock box on cultivater and pick up the big rocks when cultivating before sewing. Sure wish it would stop raining so I can get my last field in!
You can see the hitch for towing packer and harrows behind drill in this pic. Even a wet line , but I gave up on that idea as I dont like driving all over the field after just to pick rocks, and if you tried to pick them all before hand you dont know what the roller will pound in so as Dad used to say you would pick rocks till you busted the sills out of the wagon That being said I am thinking seriuosly of buying or making a rock rake. If that works out for me it will hopefully get me back to some method of packing behind the drill?? I find as you get older getting on and off tractor becomes more of a chore so automation may be key to continuing my hobby!

 

[Bruce from Can.]

The main reason I dont do it like you in one pass is on my ground there are always rocks that stick up even after rolling, and you cant really stop to pick up rocks when you are sewing or you will see the evidence when the grain comes up. I go around the field with the harrows and roller and then on the next pass stop and pick up what the rollers dont drive into the ground. Works pretty good, but near the end your eyesight becomes more "selective" shall we say! I also have rock box on cultivater and pick up the big rocks when cultivating before sewing. Sure wish it would stop raining so I can get my last field in!
You can see the hitch for towing packer and harrows behind drill in this pic. Even a wet line , but I gave up on that idea as I dont like driving all over the field after just to pick rocks, and if you tried to pick them all before hand you dont know what the roller will pound in so as Dad used to say you would pick rocks till you busted the sills out of the wagon That being said I am thinking seriuosly of buying or making a rock rake. If that works out for me it will hopefully get me back to some method of packing behind the drill?? I find as you get older getting on and off tractor becomes more of a chore so automation may be key to continuing my hobby!

Looks like a good week coming up. I have gotten across some of my corn ground run, but got distracted by moving more branches that the ice storm brought down into the field edges. And today after the all night rain has things pretty wet, maybe by tomorrow afternoon. Today I have been fooling around with my backhoe cleaning up a bit of fence line.

 

[maqbill]

I like your rig. I planted thousands of acres of small grains and hay seeds with a IH 510 drill pulling a culti-packer just like you. Worked like a charm

We did the same with a john Deere van brunt.

 

[tom upton]

Looks like a good week coming up. I have gotten across some of my corn ground run, but got distracted by moving more branches that the ice storm brought down into the field edges. And today after the all night rain has things pretty wet, maybe by tomorrow afternoon. Today I have been fooling around with my backhoe cleaning up a bit of fence line.

I hear you on the brush clean up. I still have whole trees to clean up along the east side of a piece of rented ground plus one other hay field. East side of trees seemed to take a bigger hit? Someone asked me why I wasnt putting it out by the road for the city to chip? I literally doubt I have enough road frontage to do it, and dont have all summer to haul brush, so just putting in a pile to burn what I cant throw into the fence row.
Good luck with your planting.