What's everyone's favorite 3pt implement for leveling plots? We have a few plots on slight slopes that could use a bit of smoothing/leveling, just to ensure proper depth with our Genesis 3 drill. I'd prefer to minimize tillage as much as possible. Would something like a pulverizer work well? We have a lot of shale/rocks in the soil, so it needs to be able to hande that. We use a combination of disking/dragging/cultipacking over the years, but there has to be a better way.
Best implement for leveling plots?
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jsasker007
5 year old buck +
Box blades work pretty well for moving high spots and leveling.
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It's a combination of things. Plots were fallow fields for many years. Started plowing and disking, without proper finishing equipment like drags and/or cultipacker. Water played a part, but ditches have been fixes for the most part. Etc.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
That happened on my place two years ago. Gonna try to fix it this year.
rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
If you really want level, I have no 3 pt favorite. I get best results with less seat time pulling a spring tooth drag compared to box blade, 7 ft blade, or landscape rake. Own and collected them all over the yrs. Something like this works about the best. Can drag a looped chain behind that to bust up clods a bit too. Does require discing or chisel plowing prep prior to the drag.
But get field level and park that other stuff for years after that if you want so don't get all worked up about initial tillage needed and later switch to your drill
But get field level and park that other stuff for years after that if you want so don't get all worked up about initial tillage needed and later switch to your drill
T-Max
5 year old buck +
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5 year old buck +
For that I would consider the tractor bucket, box blade or regular blade. Once you take off the worst, try to drill after a rain (a foreign concept locally, given Missouri's drought). I tried drilling into dry soil last year and it didn't work very well. That night it rained, and the next day the drill (a Haybuster 707) seemed to work much better and didn't complain about field imperfections as much.
rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
^^^ was first thinking of a land plane too but those are shown used mostly with small, loose, evenly sized material i.e. like gravel that do not cause it to jump up and down much. My guess with any sizable rocks will jump the whole plane up and down if crossbar hits a rock instead of a tine that bends back while rest of rig still rides on ground like a farm drag. Dunno but my .02.
jsasker007
5 year old buck +
The wider the implement the better the results will be for getting level ground. Just a big drag will take down high spots and bring material that will fill in the lower spots Too small of a drag can make things worse if you're not careful.
Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
More pics please?
It's the back of this. I got quotes for the whole unit for $4500ish for a 6' 3 point unit. You can buy the parts I bought new, to bolt onto another piece of equipment. I think a new leveling bar with rolling basket was about $3500 for a 5', which was about what they charges for the whole thing.
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omicron1792
5 year old buck +
I think I’d would disc it really well and get it flat, plant heavy rye and just start the no till process after. One season of crops and you’ll be right as rain.
It's too late to replant in PA. Spring time it'll get leveled.
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