Disc or Tiller

[om21braz]

if u are planting Bermudagrass why dont u plant sprigs it is a whole lot easyier and less work all u need to do is disc real good spread the sprigs with a sprig are a old manure spreader and then set disc ganges straight and dics the sprigs in and be on your way

+1 That's usually how it's done around here too. The insertion method may vary, but typically using sprigs.

 

[whodat526]

yea people around here do it many different ways

 

[Oleozz]

I've found that for our ground, (very rocky, looks like more rocks than soil) I use the disc first. It's a big heavy 18 ft IH and really cuts the ground, I then run the cultipacker over it and then plant. Any type of cultivating or harrowing brings the rocks up, big and small. If I'm planting rye, wheat, or a cover crop where I'm broadcasting I then run the cultipacker over it again to press the seeds in.

 

[sweettractors]

I've found that for our ground, (very rocky, looks like more rocks than soil) I use the disc first. It's a big heavy 18 ft IH and really cuts the ground, I then run the cultipacker over it and then plant. Any type of cultivating or harrowing brings the rocks up, big and small. If I'm planting rye, wheat, or a cover crop where I'm broadcasting I then run the cultipacker over it again to press the seeds in.

That looks like a Brillion 12-14 ft Transport cultipacker. Super nice machine. Ken Sweet

 

[driver79]

Just use the rototiller.

I have a chisel plow, a disk and a 6' rototiller. I keep going back to the tiller because its a single pass, seed, culitpack, done. I do a total of 6 acres of plots on my own lands. Tiller works well for making and seeding trails in the woods if you ever wanted to do that as well. I have a King Kutter version; there are better ones out there but for the money, and the abuse it has taken it has been a great piece of equipment. My only complaint on the KK is the paint doesn't hold up well. Going to paint it Kubota orange this winter.

-BG

 

[trac]

Here in NY, it depends on how long the ground has sat idle. If it is sod ground, I usually plow it under, pulling a 5' roller behind the plow to flatten and conserve moisture, and then hit it lightly with a disc. Planting three acres of corn.( enough for my chickens and for the deer through February). Once the ground has been worked one year, hit the corn stalks with a disc, chisel, and then rototill seeding it to soybeans in spring, wheat in the fall. I also do alot of frost seeding(usually clover seed) walking on grass seed in the fall with the wheat or old soybean fields. I roll only after I plant in spring( tends to pack like the road). I plant alfalfa hay seed before Aug 15 th, that is when the roller is out in force. So actually, owing a plow, disc,chisel, roller,and rotor tiller is nice if you can. I think rotor tilling by itself on heavier ground doesn't till deep enough, so plow first. This is what works for me. trac