FOOD PLOT ATV,UTV OR TRACTOR ?

[TEAM COUNTRY ADVENTURES]

WHAT DO YOU USE TO PREP AND PLANT YOUR FOOD PLOT ?

 

[TEAM COUNTRY ADVENTURES]

POST PIC'S OF THE EQUPMENT YOU USE TO PLANT YOUR FOOD PLOT.

[G-Man]

Tractors, kioti dk35se, and an oliver 1800, 5 bottom plow,3 bottom jd plow, 8 ft disc, field cultivators 6 ft and 5 ft, 8 ft culimulcher, 55 gallon trailer 10 ft wide boom spray trailer, jd 48 2 ron corn planter , 13 ft international grain drill, 6 bushel 3pt spreader, lime spreader 20 ft throw.

[Zag]

Tractors, kioti dk35se, and an oliver 1800, 5 bottom plow,3 bottom jd plow, 8 ft disc, field cultivators 6 ft and 5 ft, 8 ft culimulcher, 55 gallon trailer 10 ft wide boom spray trailer, jd 48 2 ron corn planter , 13 ft international grain drill, 6 bushel 3pt spreader, lime spreader 20 ft throw.

Just to name a few.... hahaha.... jealous

[WNYBuckHunter]

We use a small variety. Tractors are a John Deere 5525, and John Deere 830. 2 different bush hogs, a 15 foot JD wing model for big areas and a 7 foot JD for in tight and heavy work. For breaking ground we have a King Cutter tiller, and a 10 foot tow behind disk. For rolling, we have a 10 foot cultipacker and a couple of 4 and 5 foot rollers. We use a tow behind lawn spreader or a push spreader, sometimes a bag spreader for spreading fert or seed. We use a Yamaha Viking side by side or a Polaris Sportsman 400 for alot of the spreading, rolling, spraying duties.

 

 

 

 

 

[landtracdeerhunter]

My future investment.  Worked with teams when much younger. Do my part to preserve fossil fuels. 

Think it would be cooler, (Get it?)

 

 

Edited September 3, 2015 by landtracdeerhunter

[Steuben Jerry]

Tannerite for the smaller plots...

[dbHunterNY]

My future investment.  Worked with teams when much younger. Do my part to preserve fossil fuels. 

Think it would be cooler, (Get it?)

 

boy do I have a deal on hay bales for you.  great deal.  let me know how many loads of hay (fuel) per food plot you need! haha

[dbHunterNY]

hand tools, compact 4x4 Kubota B7200D (17 HP), 4' bush hog, tiller, and cultivators.  for bigger stuff we use the actual farm equipment anything from a New Holland Workmaster 55 to a JD 4440.  To go with those we've got plows, discs, and usual you'd need.  really don't use the ATVs or Gator though.

[sailinghudson25]

I mainly use a Craftsman 18hp lawn tractor with weighted mud tires and a single row 3ft tow behind disc.   Where it's flat enough to do so, I got a Kubota L3200 with front bucket and work rake.  The York rake surprisingly makes a half decent seed bed off the bat.  The front bucket sure is helpful for rocks and leveling off lumpy spots.  Even dragging the bucket backwards can make a seed bed.

[Jaeger]

I did mostly small food plots up to an acre with my john deer 4wd gator (pre-roll cage) and a plotmaster.  The seeder on the plotmaster was pretty worthless but having the disks, drag and roller on one piece of equip. really saved trips back and forth to the barn.  And, more importantly, it had a great weight advantage, about 450lbs, over other just disk devices, really helped in breaking up ground.

 

Very easy to manuver in tight spots or odd shaped plots.

 

 I used a tow behind spreader for the lime/fertilizer/large seeds like power plant and a hand spreader for the smaller seeds like clovers and brassicas.

 

I took the plow tines off as they grab too much grass in breaking ground and dredge up way, way too many rocks.  We got 3 rocks for every dirt up here.

 

This system maxed out at about 1 1/2 acres, I tried to do bigger plots but felt like a nascar driver after about the 499th loop around the field, really not efficient for large plots.