Brinly Disk Harrow or Cultivator?

[mkedzierski]

I'm not too experienced in farming so I'm going ask for help here before I purchase. I want to till up a patch of virgin ground (with with weeds and red clay) (about 70' x 40' plot) to smooth out and reseed with clover for the deer and honey bees to visit my yard. I don't want to turn over the ground with a plow, only break it up, cut it up by making several passes. After that I would spread some some seed and rake them in. What would work better the Brinly cultivator or the disk? I would also consider Agri-fab products too.


https://brinly.com/product-category/ground-engaging/

[J-Mech]

Neither of those will work. A tiller would work better. If you want to stir up virgin dirt, you use a plow. You aren't going to do jack without a plow, or a much bigger tractor.

[mkedzierski]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

Neither of those will work. A tiller would work better. If you want to stir up virgin dirt, you use a plow. You aren't going to do jack without a plow, or a much bigger tractor.

Thanks J-Mech, I thought that might be the answer (neither would work) and I will consider the plow from Brinly and the cultivator. I was trying to save money and only purchase one thing.

[J-Mech]

Buy a used plow. The old Brinly plows are better, and used is cheaper.
I suggest an 8" or a 10". Takes quite a bit of weight to pull a 12" plow. An 8" will pull pretty hard in virgin ground.

[DeltaCub]

Why not rent or borrow a tiller?

[SS5150]

Virgin ground is pretty hard on a tiller. Still be easier to cut it and flip it with a plow and then get after it with a tiller.

[zippy1]

What I used to do, WAY back when. I would cut the potential plot area with the mower, rake off the clippings, let it green up, and spray it with Roundup.
Then I would wait till I had a good kill, sometimes had to re apply. Then I used a one section of a spring tooth drag, and went around and around. Sure it took time, but at that time, I had no implements for my garden tractors, and the area was to small, and out of the way for farming machines.
Now days, you could just rent a walk behind tiller.

[finsruskw]

I did a section of ground like that for a fellow a couple years ago.
Used the 882 with lots of weight plus a disc with LOTS of weight plus the 250+ pound fellow standing on it. made 2 or three passes in each direction like that.
Cut things up pretty good.

Then I took the 1450 and the #2 tiller to it, went down several inches and chewed up what was left of the original sod.

The guy added mulch, leveled the area w/a garden rake and reseeded.
Turned out nice, but one hell of a lot of work for sure.

I agree with Jon. A disc is worthless w/o weight, and lots of it

Good luck

[Chad126]

Originally Posted by finsruskw

A disc is worthless w/o weight, and lots of it

It's funny that I am reading this, because I was going to get thoughts from you guys regarding weight on discs.

I've always run a gang of 20 behind my Ford 3000. Never used a small set of discs ( some of you might consider the 20 gang small, but whatever). I've always just put several pieces of railroad rail on them and gone to work and never worried about how much weight was on them.

I just bought a small brinly set (8 disc gang). I'm concerned about weighing them down too much and wearing them out.

I was curious as to know your guys' thoughts on 'how much weight is too much' for this little set of discs. I was going to start my own thread, but this fell in line with topic of conversation.

[mkedzierski]

Originally Posted by finsruskw

I did a section of ground like that for a fellow a couple years ago.
Used the 882 with lots of weight plus a disc with LOTS of weight plus the 250+ pound fellow standing on it. made 2 or three passes in each direction like that.
Cut things up pretty good.

Then I took the 1450 and the #2 tiller to it, went down several inches and chewed up what was left of the original sod.

The guy added mulch, leveled the area w/a garden rake and reseeded.
Turned out nice, but one hell of a lot of work for sure.

I agree with Jon. A disc is worthless w/o weight, and lots of it

Good luck

What you just talked about is kinda what I was thinking of doing along with killing off the grass with roundup and just keep going over it several times. This project is really nothing more than an experiment to attract some wildlife and having some fun with my tractor. Getting a plow and using it sounds fun if I can get one at the right price. Ideally, I'd like the plow and cultivator.