Ant Hills ?

[devonbrion1998]

Hi All, Has anyone got any nifty way of dealing with ant hills in old pasture? I cant plough it as its conservation
My thoughts were to drive up and down scooping them with the loader bucket, or a digger and maybe some kind of drag harrow with a leveling bar on the front, but really not sure how to play this one?

 

[ACEngineering]

Hi All, Has anyone got any nifty way of dealing with ant hills in old pasture? I cant plough it as its conservation
My thoughts were to drive up and down scooping them with the loader bucket, or a digger and maybe some kind of drag harrow with a leveling bar on the front, but really not sure how to play this one?

Unless you take out the queen they will keep coming back.

 

[ACEngineering]

Hi All, Has anyone got any nifty way of dealing with ant hills in old pasture? I cant plough it as its conservation
My thoughts were to drive up and down scooping them with the loader bucket, or a digger and maybe some kind of drag harrow with a leveling bar on the front, but really not sure how to play this one?

I got rid of them in my back garden by rotovating it multiple times and starting again! I also read some where they don't like wood ash, so i dug a little bit of soil away from the bottom of the boundary fences and filled it with wood ash.

Neighbours are all over ridden with ants but my back garden has been nearly ant free for the past 5 years. Wish i had done the front lawn as well while i was at it.

 

[feilding]

Flail Topper does a great job. Done it a few times for People, if there's a lot of soil just spread grass seed after. Improves grazing no end. Not seen ants back after.

 

[Green grower]

Decis or similar?

 

[devonbrion1998]

Flail sounds, good I may be able to borrow one local
I think once there down regular topping and harrowing and grazing should hold them back, this field hasn't had anything done to it in years

 

[betweenthelines]

Unless you take out the queen they will keep coming back.

Leave Her Majesty alone, she's got enough trouble already with her kids and grandkids without being blamed for ant infestations

 

[BenAdamsAgri]

crack them open with a spade and let the partridges sort them out

 

[Lakes Nash]

Flail topper, unless you are like us in the lakes where there is bed rock under them, but doubt that in Buckinghamshire

 

[Bald Rick]

Live and let live especially as the OP says that the field is "conservation"

Woodpeckers love ant hills

 

[No wot]

I've power harrowed them level but they seem to return in time , best results from grain bucket with sharp wearing edge and drive into hill at ground level and then tip bucket back then repeat until bucket is full & tip in trailer

 

[Exfarmer]

Heavy grass harrows and a roll

 

[Farmer Roy]

You know ants perform the same soil function services as worms in drier climates ?
Anyone want to get rid of their worms as well ?

 

[farmerm]

Oh some of these suggestions.... You would end up with a tractor on its roof! You really haven't seen ant hills until you have seen our ant mountains!

 

[Farmer Roy]

Call that an ant hill ?

THIS is an ant hill

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Exfarmer]

Call that an ant hill ?

THIS is an ant hill View attachment 989222

Antsd or Termites

 

[Lakes Nash]

Call that an ant hill ?

THIS is an ant hill View attachment 989222

Better shut cab windows when flail topper hits that!

 

[Cheesehead]

You know ants perform the same soil function services as worms in drier climates ?
Anyone want to get rid of their worms as well ?

Have yet to break a tooth or put my back out while fertiliser spreading after hitting a worm castings though, £1000 per crown and root canal made my eyes water more than the back pain