Tiller Thinking of working my 9 acres to plant with my 4120

[tschwerm]

What attachments would you recommend? I have industrial tires.

 

[nspec]

That's an awful lot of acreage to work with that tractor if you're talking about strictly field work. If it were me, my first move would be to ditch the industrial tires.

 

[forestcreature1]

Assuming you a row cropping sweet corn [since no crops were named]

If virgin ground:
1) rotary cutter, width of your rear wheels [outside measurement]
2) 2 bottom plow
3) disk harrow
4) cultivator [i like the toolbar types since you can do more]
5) 2 row planter [pick the one for your dominate crop's seed size]
6) group of people to help harvest

If you need to dork with the soil [ph/fert/etc] you will need some method of doing that - I am drop spreading only the beds.
I am also spreading horse output from the stable a couple of miles up the road. [using a dump wagon and a landscape rake]

If this is already under tillage, I would drop the plow to save money [you will have to make more passes with the disk]
You can also use a rotary tiller, but that is slower than a disk, on the other paw - you can usually make one less pass with a tiller vs a disk harrow. [ground type depending]

It is possible to 'over till' and harm the soil [google for that if interested]

A nice youtube series is thebayougardener.com [webcajun channel on youtube]
You will want a unit at some point if you follow his methods

I am doing about 3 acres with a 3046r / r4 tires (i recommend R1, but I am doing more mowing/road work than field work)/ 2 bottom / disk harrow / cultivator (toolbar type) / HOSS SEEDER / wood's rotary cutter / drop spreader/

I have not evolved into side dressing with fert/ and am not doing any spraying/pesticides at this point. {this is more of an exercise in tractor playing than in crop yield }

If I was serious in high yield, I would get some plastic bed covering gear, transplanting gear, etc. from Buckeye [they are in Ohio, they make stuff for the market garden/professional grower crowd].
(I am in the 'forest creature playing with his tractor' group)

 

[jenkinsph]

What attachments would you recommend? I have industrial tires.

What do you want to plant? That would make a huge difference in what you need.

 

[ddd75]

just spray it down and no till whatever you want in.

done.

 

[allen in texas]

:stirthepot: Ya can't plow with industrial tires.

 

[jeff9366]

I plow with industrial tires just fine. My tires are filled only with air.

However, my part of Florida does not experience mud.

Ford Series 101, 2-12 plow.

 

[allen in texas]

I plow with industrial tires just fine. My tires are filled only with air.

However, my part of Florida does not experience mud.

Ford Series 101, 2-12 plow.

Note the stirring the pot emoticon. And also note the pictures of my tractor with R4's and the two bottom rollover plow. In other words, just yankin yer chain cause some people actually believe to the point of being fighting mad that you can't plow with industrial tires.

 

[tschwerm]

Sorry for being so vague .

Last year I contracted with a farmer who has the big rig equipment to get the field ready for planting in a few hours (225 HP IH ) after our first year of planting winter wheat and harvesting the crop(with his JD combine) I thought I might give it a go to do the work getting the field ready for this years crop of Soybean. I am at the mercy of having him come in when he has the rest of his own fields ready... two years ago the weather did not cooperate with me being able to get my field ready so the field stayed dormant.. The intention this year is to follow up with Soybean I would still have him do the planting and harvesting but I might like to do the seat time on my John Deere if I had the right attachments. My field is clay with topsoil and prior to last year it was 20 years as a dormant plot of land.

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Note the stirring the pot emoticon. And also note the pictures of my tractor with R4's and the two bottom rollover plow. In other words, just yankin yer chain cause some people actually believe to the point of being fighting mad that you can't plow with industrial tires.

 

[motownbrowne]

If it's already been tilled last year, you can probably whip it into shape with just a disc harrow and a drag harrow.