Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) it is a sled forum right ?lol so our club has a bit of cash and we are looking in to buying a disk for all our local clubs to use to prep fields . most of the farmers just turn the corn fields with those big plow deals leaving huge clumps . none care if we disk mast say they would do it but they don't even have a disk around any more . what are you guys using ? looking at the 3 pt looks pretty tough to get from site to site with no tractor or to move around in a poll shed . can you tow the ones with wheels at least on to a landscape trailer or down the road with a truck? or atv looks like 7.5 and 8 and 9 in are the norm for spacing I assume the closer the better? what is the spacing of a finishing disk ? only thing I know about farming is you have tractors and are all tell me how broke you are standing between your new king ranch and your new cat tractor lol Edited September 12, 2017 by Ez ryder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 How would you pull it without a tractor? Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 You should ask around for a land roller. Most guys are using them now to flatten fields after working them. Neal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 1 minute ago, NaturallyAspirated said: How would you pull it without a tractor? Neal like I said most of the local farmers we deal with say they would do it we also have members with tractors who would pull it . but our storage is not convenient to drive a tractor to not even close and with like 180 mi of trail no one is driving the whole thing from field to field in a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted September 12, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 12, 2017 @racinfarmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Reading this post,makes me glad I don't ride farm fields. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 I would think you would be much better off hiring someone to land roll it. Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) 5 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said: I would think you would be much better off hiring someone to land roll it. Neal I know south west trails uses a finishing disk that works pretty good from what I can tell by driving buy there fields after they are done . those land rollers look $$ used best price I saw was like 26k. we really can not get anything more than 10 to 12 feet wide also . have to be able to go through woods and down the trails to next field of it would take weeks not days. I am going to keep looking in to land rollers but most look huge in my 10 min search we are a metro club our furthest out trail from down town MPLS in like 40 min out by freeway Edited September 12, 2017 by Ez ryder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 I'd think you could buy a disk at a farm auction fairly cheap and rent a land roller pretty cheap too, or even get use of it donated. Or cultipack it. https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/disk-hydraulic-lift/6268657763.html https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/12-ft-harms-land-roller-for/6266089233.html https://rmn.craigslist.org/grd/d/13-brillion-cultipacker/6295088923.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodtick Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Rent a grader for a few days???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mileage Psycho Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 17 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: like I said most of the local farmers we deal with say they would do it we also have members with tractors who would pull it . but our storage is not convenient to drive a tractor to not even close and with like 180 mi of trail no one is driving the whole thing from field to field in a day. 8 minutes ago, racinfarmer said: I'd think you could buy a disk at a farm auction fairly cheap and rent a land roller pretty cheap too, or even get use of it donated. Or cultipack it. https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/disk-hydraulic-lift/6268657763.html https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/12-ft-harms-land-roller-for/6266089233.html https://rmn.craigslist.org/grd/d/13-brillion-cultipacker/6295088923.html Short money right there, and wheels to boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 7 minutes ago, Woodtick said: Rent a grader for a few days???? prob with renting anything is you are working with people doing shit in there spare time for free . best to have something you can deliver to them and let them get to it when they can 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) 12 minutes ago, racinfarmer said: I'd think you could buy a disk at a farm auction fairly cheap and rent a land roller pretty cheap too, or even get use of it donated. Or cultipack it. https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/disk-hydraulic-lift/6268657763.html https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/12-ft-harms-land-roller-for/6266089233.html https://rmn.craigslist.org/grd/d/13-brillion-cultipacker/6295088923.html will a roller like that work on clumpy clay turned like they do when turning corn ? what works better in clay the roller style or the cultipack style or old school disk ? Edited September 12, 2017 by Ez ryder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: will a roller like that work on clumpy clay turned like they do when turning corn ? It would be better than nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 1 minute ago, racinfarmer said: It would be better than nothing. lol the only field in my section was real bad past few yrs . so after a rain I grabbed a argo and drove back and fourth in the greasy clay for 4 hrs . could have done that field in 10 min with a finishing disk . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 17 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: lol the only field in my section was real bad past few yrs . so after a rain I grabbed a argo and drove back and fourth in the greasy clay for 4 hrs . could have done that field in 10 min with a finishing disk . Ideally, I'd disk it then run the land roller or the cultimulcher over it. You should try to figure out which of the clubs in Stearns County smooth out the fields they run through. They do a excellent job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) 7 minutes ago, racinfarmer said: Ideally, I'd disk it then run the land roller or the cultimulcher over it. You should try to figure out which of the clubs in Stearns County smooth out the fields they run through. Th ey do a excellent job. fuck sterns cant be to hard to flatten potato in sand . a good wind will flatten that shit out lol . I have 80 in becker and my cozens own another 320 all sand. as deep as you dig. but yeah it realistically has to be a 1 pass deal of it wont get done . you know the deal you are in a short window between crops out and hard freeze for volunteers to get out and do it . and those volunteers just spent the last 30 days in that tractor seat Edited September 12, 2017 by Ez ryder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: fuck sterns cant be to hard to flatten potato in sand . a good wind will flatten that shit out lol . I have 80 in becker and my cozens own another 320 all sand. as deep as you dig. but yeah it realistically has to be a 1 pass deal of it wont get done . you know the deal you are in a short window between crops out and hard freeze for volunteers to get out and do it . and those volunteers just spent the last 30 days in that tractor seat Stearns has plenty of heavy ground too. Around the river is most definitely sand, but you get pretty much anywhere else and it is really good ground, with more sand in the Bonanza Valley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayward Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 how about a 12' "finishing" disk with a 12' brillion transport packer in tow behind the disk? Ought to have 100-125 horse to pull it all but one pass will make a damn nice seed bed out of just about any ground, unless it's too wet to be on the field in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted September 12, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 12, 2017 In our area, we have a unit they pull behind the groomer that they call the "Land leveler". I assume its similar to the cultipacker Racinfarmer posted. This is one of our volunteers leveling a field with his own equipment. Just a cultivator being pulled by a small tractor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 4 minutes ago, Blackstar said: In our area, we have a unit they pull behind the groomer that they call the "Land leveler". I assume its similar to the cultipacker Racinfarmer posted. This is one of our volunteers leveling a field with his own equipment. Just a cultivator being pulled by a small tractor. we only have tuckers so no driving them to far in the dirt . a finishing disk is prob first to buy I do like those packers . and that combo deal racing farmer posted . guess I have to start going to implement stores around my parts to see what is out there . we are deff looking used as not wanting to spend more than a few grand and we really cant get larger than like 12ft wide . in the fields life is ez but we do have a decent amount of woods with turns you have to think about when yanking a drag behind a tucker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ez ryder said: we only have tuckers so no driving them to far in the dirt . a finishing disk is prob first to buy I do like those packers . and that combo deal racing farmer posted . guess I have to start going to implement stores around my parts to see what is out there . we are deff looking used as not wanting to spend more than a few grand and we really cant get larger than like 12ft wide . in the fields life is ez but we do have a decent amount of woods with turns you have to think about when yanking a drag behind a tucker You could probably rent something like a Deere 7330 fairly cheap to pull a disk with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 I found you a 12' Allis Chalmers disk coming up for auction in a couple weeks, but you'd have to drag the bastard home from Taylors Falls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 2 minutes ago, racinfarmer said: You could probably rent something like a Deere 7330 fairly cheap to pull a disk with. like I said we do have guys with tractors willing to do the work they for some reason just don't have a disk. it is one of those things our small local club is pretty good at fund raising so there is no reason to put some of that cash in to equipment we and other surrounding clubs can use . don't buy tangible shit the money gets pissed away on party's and shit . that was why we started this club to be a snowmobile club not a social club that has more focus on partys and charity than the trails . if we start to turn from trails first to some other thing the primary starters will deff bail . we are going to try to buy a decent tool every yr as a asset for the club . try to run it like a growing small business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted September 12, 2017 Author Share Posted September 12, 2017 (edited) 4 minutes ago, racinfarmer said: I found you a 12' Allis Chalmers disk coming up for auction in a couple weeks, but you'd have to drag the bastard home from Taylors Falls. that is not a bad drive we have plenty of guys with 1 ton and 2 ton trucks and trailers in club 1 with a mack and flat bed . what auction site ? we have a few members with pretend farms lol with nice tractors that sit in the poll barn looking for a reason to get used Edited September 12, 2017 by Ez ryder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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