XT3 GSX Chisel Plowing

[john hall]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Agri Fab makes what they call a cultivator, but does work as a "chisel" plow. Buddy of mine picked up a used one this year. (The one that I help farm.) He said it works pretty good. Take the POS depth control things off of it, and it will go in the ground. It's not great.... but it's better than the one you got. At least it has two rows, so it can pass more trash, and it will go in the ground deeper. He did break one of the chisels because he caught a root. Things I don't like about it are the chisels have no changeable shovels/points on them. They aren't even drilled for them, so when the wear out, they are done. They also obviously aren't very hard, as he broke one. BUT.... better than the other.

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Here is what you need.....

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The 3pt would be pretty nice if it had more ground clearance for the trash! That trailer type is SWEEEEET--if you can pull it.

Years ago I worked as a groundskeeper for a subdivision. They had a 670 Deere compact tractor. I had to rip up some ground to reseed it. All I had was a box blade. I shortened the centerline all it would go and dropped the teeth down all the way and put it in 4wd. Worked well, even ripped the phone line up to the club house, but it was literally buried a 1" deep.

The one thing you can't scale in miniature tillage tools is ground clearance. Unless you are running in clean land, the weeds are still the same height, regardless if you are using a lawn mower or a farm tractor. We have trouble choking up chisel plows here in heavy weeds/trash. We used to run this in front of all our double crop beans behind wheat, but we baled the straw. If there was a busted bale or a very weedy section we had to deal with it choking up (not too often but it could happen). We were running fairly shallow for beans. Fall and spring tillage saw a bigger tractor and much deeper--but the fields were cleaner as well.

[SS5150]

The second pic J-Mech shows is what I was talking about. Then put twisted shovels on the shanks and go to town. Gonna take some weight and hp to pull it though.

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by SS5150

The second pic J-Mech shows is what I was talking about. Then put twisted shovels on the shanks and go to town. Gonna take some weight and hp to pull it though.

Too bad that they don't make twisted shovels that small. But I agree. They would be best.

The guy that built that claims the Deere will pull it.... but I couldn't find any tillage pics, nor did he say how deep. I believe him though as he has other implements he made. I will say, that generally our little tractors run out of traction before they power out. An 18hp tractor would pull it with enough weight. Probably in the neighborhood of 3-4" deep would be my SWAG. Maybe not an XT tractor though....

I need to build one. Looks great!