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I have about 30 acres by my house that I have plowed and planted and grazed cattle on for years. I had a full size 150HP farm tractor, large drag type tandem disc, large chisel plow, and large drag type drill.
Last year we bought a 330 acre ranch located about 1.25 hours away from the house. My tractor and implements were all too big to haul back and forth and even if I got them to the ranch they wouldn’t make it down the narrow ranch roads.
I sold my large tractor and bought a 73 hp MFWD tractor with cab and loader and today I bought a 7.5‘ offset disc. Basically I am selling off all my large equipment and replacing it with smaller equipment suitable to the 73 HP tractor and that can be hauled back and forth as It will do double duty planting for the cattle at home and food plots at the ranch.
I am searching for a drill or other implement to plant with and there are so many choices my head is spinning. No till is appealing to me but at least initially I am going to be discing as the food plot areas are brush now and we are dozing and raking them and I figure the disc will help level them out and break up any remaining roots.
The 3PT606NT looks nice but is a little narrow and is pretty much unavailable everywhere I checked. Sold out and Covid delays. The Genesis 8 looks nice and I know where one is (new) but I am not familiar with the brand and I am not sure how they call it no till when it doesn’t come with coulters. Another drill I found is VMC and they make an 8’ with a built in cultipacker. It seems really nice as well and they told me 3 weeks out but again I am not familiar with the brand.
The woods and firminator are interesting. I am not familiar with these type things but they don’t appear to be true drills. They basically run a disc on front, drop the seed, and then cultipack over it. This seems like it would work great for small seeds that need to be planted shallow but the bulk of what I will be planting is winter wheat and cereal rye for food plots and haygrazer (sorghum-sudan hybrid) for grazing cattle at my house. All of these are recommended to be planted at around 1” deep. Not sure if the woods or firminator can do that and if they produce nice thick consistent stands like a drill does. There is a 8’ firminator with very low use for sale near me for a good deal.
Any advice you could give would greatly be appreciated. Budget isn’t a huge concern but I don’t want to spend 15k when something half that amount will do the job. At the same time I am more afraid of spending $7500 on something like the firminator and being disappointed in how it works.
I have about 30 acres by my house that I have plowed and planted and grazed cattle on for years. I had a full size 150HP farm tractor, large drag type tandem disc, large chisel plow, and large drag type drill.
Last year we bought a 330 acre ranch located about 1.25 hours away from the house. My tractor and implements were all too big to haul back and forth and even if I got them to the ranch they wouldn’t make it down the narrow ranch roads.
I sold my large tractor and bought a 73 hp MFWD tractor with cab and loader and today I bought a 7.5‘ offset disc. Basically I am selling off all my large equipment and replacing it with smaller equipment suitable to the 73 HP tractor and that can be hauled back and forth as It will do double duty planting for the cattle at home and food plots at the ranch.
I am searching for a drill or other implement to plant with and there are so many choices my head is spinning. No till is appealing to me but at least initially I am going to be discing as the food plot areas are brush now and we are dozing and raking them and I figure the disc will help level them out and break up any remaining roots.
The 3PT606NT looks nice but is a little narrow and is pretty much unavailable everywhere I checked. Sold out and Covid delays. The Genesis 8 looks nice and I know where one is (new) but I am not familiar with the brand and I am not sure how they call it no till when it doesn’t come with coulters. Another drill I found is VMC and they make an 8’ with a built in cultipacker. It seems really nice as well and they told me 3 weeks out but again I am not familiar with the brand.
The woods and firminator are interesting. I am not familiar with these type things but they don’t appear to be true drills. They basically run a disc on front, drop the seed, and then cultipack over it. This seems like it would work great for small seeds that need to be planted shallow but the bulk of what I will be planting is winter wheat and cereal rye for food plots and haygrazer (sorghum-sudan hybrid) for grazing cattle at my house. All of these are recommended to be planted at around 1” deep. Not sure if the woods or firminator can do that and if they produce nice thick consistent stands like a drill does. There is a 8’ firminator with very low use for sale near me for a good deal.
Any advice you could give would greatly be appreciated. Budget isn’t a huge concern but I don’t want to spend 15k when something half that amount will do the job. At the same time I am more afraid of spending $7500 on something like the firminator and being disappointed in how it works.
