Aerator

[PapaJ]

My wife would like to be able to aerate the pasture for the horse. I have been looking, and 3PH aerators are ridiculously prices. Ludicrous even!

I have one that you can pull behind a lawn tractor, it ain't much, but it's paid for. Anybody successfully use one behind a real tractor? I'd have to hook it to my trailer hauler hitch on the 3PH and throw some cinder blocks on it.

 

[stumpcutter]

If is's a plug aerator. Use enough weight,and wait till you get a good rain it will work fine.

 

[PapaJ]

If is's a plug aerator. Use enough weight,and wait till you get a good rain it will work fine.

It is definitely not a plug aerator. This thing is a spike aerator. Also, I am 1 gazillionth of an inch above sea level, so I don't WALK in the pasture after a rain, it's basically a swamp. The tractor would either float or immediately get stuck inside the gate.

 

[beckmurph]

I rented a 48” core aerator from local rental service. Added about 20 gallons of water to it, and it did a good job. Pulled it with my B2650.
Here is a link to the one I rented:

http://www.wagnerrentalashland.com/equipment.asp?action=category&category=45&key=AERLPP-02A

 

[BigG]

Can you get your hands on a disk harrow? Set the dick to cut straight and do not go very fast. I worked on a ranch that would slice the pasture and the city would come in and dump effluent water. It was amazing the difference that practice made in the growth of the grass.

 

[PapaJ]

Can you get your hands on a disk harrow? Set the dick to cut straight and do not go very fast. I worked on a ranch that would slice the pasture and the city would come in and dump effluent water. It was amazing the difference that practice made in the growth of the grass.

I could if I bought one. I mean, there are tons of farmers all around me, but they stick to themselves in VA. One of 'em is nice enough, he's gonna be our new hay guy, but I wouldn't ask him to borrow any equipment, and he has gigantic tractors anyway, he does hay for a living. Other neighbor has a little green tractor, but all he does with it is cut grass and move little trailers around. Biggest issue here is buttercups and pine trees, only got grass growing in about 1/3 of the pasture. And when it rains, the horse tears the ground up, and there is standing water for days. Usually it rains 2 or 3 days in a row and takes a month to dry up, if it doesn't rain again for that month.

 

[old and tired]

You might need to run a subsoiler in that area vs. aerating...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywhHsjp6CxE