Harrow and cultipacker

[ichversuchte]

I have about 2 acres of food plots. Thoughts on using a harrow in conjunction with cultipacker after broadcast seeding vs expensive no till drill?

https://lancaster.craigslist.org/grd/d/cultipacker-harrow/6604823435.html


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Creature Meadow]

What will you be planting?

We plant oats and wheat each fall, disk and sow seed cover with disk then sow rape and cultipack. Works great for us.

If planting small seeds like rape and clover disking to cover will not be ideal as it will cover it too much.

I have found that small seeds need a nice firm seed bed to germinate properly. When planting clover we disk and drag to even seed bed have no tiller and will do so prior to a rain. We sometimes pack with a aerator but seldom cover, as a 1/4" is ideal or seed to ground contact is most important.

Just depends on what you are planting.

 

[NYOrange]

I’d buy it just for the cultipacker if nothing else. I haven’t found one cheap enough by me yet and when I do I’m always a day late.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Foggy1111]

I plant about 5 acres of food plots. I mostly plant brassica by broadcasting into a prepared seedbed.....then culitpack to set the seeds.

Prior to seeding the brassica I will till or disk the plots....then sometimes seed somewhat larger seeds like groundhog radish before dragging the seeds to get the radish a bit deeper into the soil (also can do this with soybeans). THEN I put down my smaller seeds like rape and PTT......and finally cultipack the seedbed.

I do now own a JD 71 planter.....so I plant my soybeans with this.....most cases into a no-till field that has been previously nuked with roundup.

Both above methods have worked for me. Generally speaking......bigger seeds should be planted from 3/4" to 1 1/2" deep and the small seeds just need some good ground contact.....but so much will depend on soil types, conditions and moisture. I will spread brassica into my beans pretty soon.....and hope Mother Nature will supply a rainfall to set the seeds. Doesn't always work.....but normally does.

 

[243ackley]

Harrow/cultipacker is perfect for what you are trying to do.

It will cover the seed and smooth out the field.

It will work way better than trying to cover your seed with your disk.

The only thing to consider is the cultipacker is expensive to work on (if you can’t do it yourself)The bearings are the main issue. You have to pull all of the pieces of the wheel off to replace the bearings.

 

[ichversuchte]

Thank you so much for all your replies. I didn’t realize that the cultipacker had bearings. [emoji3]


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk