How to remove 2" of topsoil in pasture?

[mrlullabye]

I'm a fan of burn it to dust and disc the piss out of it.

I hired a guy to do some leveling of 9 acres and granted we didn't have cactus, but after he drove a big dozer around it scraping turning and tearing everything up he ran over it twice with a set of "12 ton sunflower disc" there was no vegetation left alive. He didn't burn it, he dried it all to ****.

If you can burn it than disc it with about 2 weeks of dry wheather then disc it a few more times I don't know any root system critter that can survive that. Dryness is a hardcore killer.

 

[Soundguy]

do that for a couple years and yeah.. should do it.

do it once and a crop of dormant weeds will come up pretty darn good.

soundguy

 

[WVBill]

Would something like a rock picker work?

There's just one type shown here. Rock Picker, Towable Rock Picker and Hydraulic Rock Picker from Equipmentland

 

[The Dougster]

Like someone said, any prickly pear pad that is left on the ground soon begins to sprout roots and grow. A major problem with one of my pastures is that someone made the mistake of shredding it with a bush hog.. you wouldn't believe the prickly pear now... burning will do the job IF you have enough high weeds/grass to get a significant burn and then applying for a permit to do a controlled burn and paying for the manpower to pull it off becomes a problem.