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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5655833" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I tell you what, the switching of equipment is the killer for me. I'm usually working alone, and swapping equipment on the tractor by myself is a no-go. Never found an easy way to swap 3-point hitch equipment. Have to have one other person around to help line things up. So I have the bushhog on the tractor to mow, then put the tank and boom on the ATV to spray. Then the bushhog has to be swapped with the tiller for tilling. We have the broadcast seeder on a UTV, and then I've been covering seed with a drag harrow behind the ATV (which soon will be replaced with a pull-behind cultipacker).</p><p></p><p>In the past, because of the problems swapping equipment, I would do all 7 acres with each piece of equipment. I would mow all plots, then spray all plots, then till all plots, then seed all plots, then drag all plots. However, I've had some bad experiences where a freak thunderstorm comes up after I've tilled the plots but before they are all seeded. The pounding rain packed the tilled soil back down and they had to be tilled again (or at least drug with the drag harrow - teeth down) to loosen the soil. I'm either going to do one plot at a time this year, or maybe do half the plots, wait until they germinate, and then do the other half. That way I don't completely "clean the food plot table" for a couple of weeks.</p><p></p><p>Because I'm going to lime and fertilize heavy this fall, I'm still going to till before planting my fall plots (to incorporate lime and fertilizer into the soil). But I'm going to till much shallower than I have in the past. Probably only about 2-3" instead of the 6-8" I have been doing. The deep tilling really slows me down. To till that deep into hard, rocky ground, I have to crawl along at half walking speed. It takes FOREVER to till all my plots at that slow of a speed. I can more than double my speed if I'm only tilling the surface (2-3").</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5655833, member: 17"] I tell you what, the switching of equipment is the killer for me. I'm usually working alone, and swapping equipment on the tractor by myself is a no-go. Never found an easy way to swap 3-point hitch equipment. Have to have one other person around to help line things up. So I have the bushhog on the tractor to mow, then put the tank and boom on the ATV to spray. Then the bushhog has to be swapped with the tiller for tilling. We have the broadcast seeder on a UTV, and then I've been covering seed with a drag harrow behind the ATV (which soon will be replaced with a pull-behind cultipacker). In the past, because of the problems swapping equipment, I would do all 7 acres with each piece of equipment. I would mow all plots, then spray all plots, then till all plots, then seed all plots, then drag all plots. However, I've had some bad experiences where a freak thunderstorm comes up after I've tilled the plots but before they are all seeded. The pounding rain packed the tilled soil back down and they had to be tilled again (or at least drug with the drag harrow - teeth down) to loosen the soil. I'm either going to do one plot at a time this year, or maybe do half the plots, wait until they germinate, and then do the other half. That way I don't completely "clean the food plot table" for a couple of weeks. Because I'm going to lime and fertilize heavy this fall, I'm still going to till before planting my fall plots (to incorporate lime and fertilizer into the soil). But I'm going to till much shallower than I have in the past. Probably only about 2-3" instead of the 6-8" I have been doing. The deep tilling really slows me down. To till that deep into hard, rocky ground, I have to crawl along at half walking speed. It takes FOREVER to till all my plots at that slow of a speed. I can more than double my speed if I'm only tilling the surface (2-3"). [/QUOTE]
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