Plow vs tiller

[Jimmyjack]

I sold all my old Fords and bought a 37 HP Kubota. Love it. But Im wondering how my Dearborn two bottom 16 inch plow will work. Should I sell it and buy a tiller? Only use it on two acre deer plots and playing around. Dont even know if it will follow right on the Kubota. I have the whole deal for the plow, tail wheel, coulters, and spades and point are great. I think I could sell it for a premium. Till and once and done. Wouldnt have to disc, drag etc. $1500 for a five foot King Kutter minus whatever I might get for the plow. What say you?

 

[Jimmyjack]

My plow is 14 inches, and found out by reading that the Dearborn plows do not fit well behind a Kubota without some cutting. Wont do that to my plow. Guess best way to go is tiller and sell the plow?

 

[Ultradog MN]

How many rocks do you have in your soil is one big factor. Tillers don't like them.
Another is, are you easily bored?
Roto tilling is the most boring job you will Ever do with a tractor. Bar none.
Even as a kid it completely took the fun out of driving one for me.
Try the tiller. Rent it maybe. If you like it Then sell the plow amd disc.

 

[jon corbett]

bought a 2 bottom 12" from a Kubota owner.nice tractor.real nice.too bad the owner didn't know how to setup the plows.can't plow with points up.took my time reset the plows.work great behind my ferg.$165 well spent.

 

[Bruce (VA)]

Plowing with a modern tractor that does not have adjustable wheels is next to impossible. They were not designed for it.
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[Hobo,NC]

If that's all you are doing this is the ticket... There is one on the local cracklist for $250 its a deal...





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R-8ZhFlO5Y

 

[Dean]

It depends upon what model Kubota you have, it's weight, transmission, tires and wheels.

Small Kubota tractors do not have draft control, a feature quite helpful when plowing.

In any event, a 2X16 plow is going to be too much for just about any 37 (engine) HP CUT in most soils.

Dean

 

[Bruce (VA)]

PS...??.

What Hobo said.

That's also called a "poor mans tiller".
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[HCooke]

Agree with Hobo. Save your 1500 and buy that field cultivator as show on Youtube.

 

[Bill M. From Illinois]

I have most of 3 point stuff for working the soil and a 35HP Kubota and N Fords so I have some experience to share. I prefer using a disk for food plots for cutting and turning the soil. If the soil is packed the chisel cultivator works good . Tiller works nice for a real fine seed bed but tends to "Fluff up" the soil a lot. Then if you get a hard rain , the soil tends to settle and get hard. The tiller is also slow and if you have tall weeds or grass it will tend to wrap up around tines. In my opinion, a tiller is great for gardens but not so great for food plots. Disks work good because they tend to chop the trash up instead of dragging it around. Those rear notched blade disks cut a little deeper and you can change the angle to control the depth. Stay away from the cheap, light weight disks or you just wont be satisfied .

 

[lastcowboy32]

(quoted from post at 20:51:02 04/27/19) I sold all my old Fords and bought a 37 HP Kubota. Love it. But Im wondering how my Dearborn two bottom 16 inch plow will work. Should I sell it and buy a tiller? Only use it on two acre deer plots and playing around. Dont even know if it will follow right on the Kubota. I have the whole deal for the plow, tail wheel, coulters, and spades and point are great. I think I could sell it for a premium. Till and once and done. Wouldnt have to disc, drag etc. $1500 for a five foot King Kutter minus whatever I might get for the plow. What say you?

I say that the whole concept of food plots, as a whole, is great for, selling food plot stuff.

I have a neighbor that bought some land. Now, before I say anything more. I love this guy. He is a great friend, and he and I trade machinery back and forth.

BUT. He bought a nice, new tractor and a tiller. And a disk. And a corn planter. To make food plots.

He puts in hours and hours of time creating his food plots. We're in Central NY; and weather is always dicey. I've gone over to his place, and he's got his tiller just caked with clay, and his field looks like a mud-brick factory.

On the other hand, we have taken some weedy fields around us and started to rehab them as hay fields. As soon as you get rid of the goldenrod and the clover starts to dominate, you start to see deer grazing in these meadows en masse.

If I was going to create food plots for deer, depending on the area, but in my area, I would get a good brush hog, a seeding spreader and a roller.

I would keep that brush hog sharp, almost like a finish mower. I would broadcast some clover seed, maybe some annuals that might sprout along with it (oats and such) and roll it in.

A couple or few mowings per year would keep it lush and vegetative, just how deer like it.

If I till ground, I'm going to use that effort to grow vegetables or grain for people. I don't even grow grain for... or feed grain to, our cattle.

Deer, cattle and other ruminants, ungulates...whatever you want to call them, are great for taking plants that we can't eat...and don't have to plant...and turning them into food.