Ultradog Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 I turned over my main plot on Saturday. I did this last year but did not get a good germination rate as it was dry. Used my Ford 3000 to plow. Then the new tractor I bought recently looked jealous so I fired her up and used it to do the discing. It's still too early to plant so I will wait about a month, disc again and then plant. It's always fun to get a little seat time. I don't trust this forum to embed my photos so will just link to them. Here is my little 3000 pulling 2-16s http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/Ultradog/My%203000/IMG_20150418_123156.jpg And my latest acquisition, a goofy, somewhat rare, Ford 4200 pulling the disc. http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/Ultradog/4200/IMG_20150418_140534.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Too wet here to even think about turning any soil with the tractor. Way behind on our garden too. A narrow front end would probably get me killed on these hills here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Gotta like the fresh smell of turned soil, open station tractors get you right out there in the middle of it all.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultradog Posted April 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 A narrow front end would probably get me killed on these hills here. Yeah, they are a bit more tippy. I wont ever do much with it. Have two others for what little "farming" I do. Just always wanted one to goof around with. It's about the worst model Ford ever made. Too tall, ungainly thing. Fuel gulping gasser, and a Select O Speed transmission which are almost universally despised. Exactly what I wanted. LOL Looked for one for a long time. Here is my bush hogging tractor. It's a 4400 - industrial http://s61.photobucket.com/user/Ultradog/media/4400/100_1831.jpg.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 narrow fronts were NOT the tractor to start out a youngin on...but they sure were handy to spot hay wagons or pull a feeder wagon in a barnyard type area where you needed short turning radious. Wed had two J.D. narrow fronts, dad went to massey fergusons with wide fronts, when us kids came along a 50 & a 135 then the olivers 1550 1555 1755 1955 then I bought a '89 white 160 4x4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 not much being turned here. all perennial and still producing hay ground. we've got lots of hills and rocks. 55-90+ hp 4 wheel drives to hold back equipment. hills can be a little greasy still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Gotta like the fresh smell of turned soil' date=' open station tractors get you right out there in the middle of it all..[/quote'] if it's corn ground then sure... if it's ground to be seeded down into something like hay and you're "picking rocks" by hand it's lets just say bitter sweet. only once dad rented rock picking equipment. not sure how that Midwest dirt is but here we must have nice fertile soil, because we sure do grow a lot of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 That is some really nice looking dark soil. Always fun to turn dirt but don't know if it is absolutely necessary for deep tillage for food plots. The less tilling you do the healthier you soil will be. If the ground hasn't been worked up before and worried about compaction then a plot does a good job. Wish I had that beautiful soil. good luck todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) you aint farmed if you never picked rocks or roots from bustin new ground...dad kept us busy in the summers by clearing new ground..as soon as we had it all picked clean, he'd come thru with the digger and pull up more! More than once I felt like chukin a good root at him...lol Edited May 13, 2015 by Mathews XT Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Been using my gator and an atv cultivator to break up ground for my food plot. Does a nice job but talk about rocks! Not little ones either! I'll have a rock fence by the time I'm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultradog Posted May 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 (edited) Well, We went back up there Tuesday morning but my main plot was too wet to disc and seed so we had to leave it go for another time. We did get two smaller plots in though. Where I hunt is on 17 acres and I have a rental house there. My tennant has kind of whined a little in past years as there is so much lawn to mow - about 3/4 acre. So I asked him if it would bother him if I plowed the back yard and turned it into a deer plot. He kind of looked at me funny - I suppose thinking I wouldn't actually plow up the lawn and said "No, I guess not." Then he left for work. So I fired up the tractor and in about an hour and a half had made about a 50' X 250' plot. It's just up the hill from where my blind is located - basically surrounded by woods, and even though I can't see it from there I figure it will cause deer to filter through to get there. So when he got home he'll see that this is what the back yard now looks like. LOL Just trying to be a good landlord Right? http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/Ultradog/Implements/100_2094.jpg Edited May 21, 2015 by Ultradog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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