Levelling pig fields - Toptilth?

[JonL]

I’m looking for a tool to level paddocks and trackways on outdoor pig fields. The idea is to keep on top of it rather than get to the point of needing a digger! We’re talking sand land with stones that sets like concrete. Ideally something 100hp would handle.
Considered various options like 3m power Harrow, disc harrows, short disc. Spotted a 3m toptilth which looks like it could be just the job. Any thoughts? Power requirement?

 

[mf7480]

Our short disk does a remarkable job of levelling ruts- far better than a powerharrow or anything with tines.

 

[vantage]

Back in the day, when I was a student on an outdoor pig unit in Blewbury, Oxon, they used a Wilder? pressure Harrow, it could drag a fair amount of soil along which used to drop into the low points the pigs had dugout.

 

[glasshouse]

Cousins levelling harrow

 

[Lewis821]

Old Bomford superflow with a railway sleeper tied in the legs ?

 

[glasshouse]

Browns panbuster

 

[rob h]

Top tilth will do a exelent job of levelling. However if it's really hard you may snap a few tines. You might need something to loosen it up first

 

[ED.D]

Box grader?

 

[Repeat]

12 ft of the heaviest H girder you can find and a chain ?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

A mounted grading blade has been quite effective for us, set up with the concave face forwards. Pulls soil into wallow holes, then in reverse can levels what has been deposited. Just a quick run forward for levelling fence lines. Recently got a mounted box grader which is good on rutted roadways, I haven't yet tried it on a vacated field.

 

[ShooTa]

joker? as in mark brock on youtube.

 

[Beefsmith]

A mounted grading blade has been quite effective for us, set up with the concave face forwards. Pulls soil into wallow holes, then in reverse can levels what has been deposited. Just a quick run forward for levelling fence lines. Recently got a mounted box grader which is good on rutted roadways, I haven't yet tried it on a vacated field.

what make are you using? Any web links?

 

[Beefsmith]

I’m looking for a tool to level paddocks and trackways on outdoor pig fields. The idea is to keep on top of it rather than get to the point of needing a digger! We’re talking sand land with stones that sets like concrete. Ideally something 100hp would handle.
Considered various options like 3m power Harrow, disc harrows, short disc. Spotted a 3m toptilth which looks like it could be just the job. Any thoughts? Power requirement?

My cousin uses an old 14t 360. Cost him £5,000 so it’s a bit of a knacker but it’s only doing about 100hrs a year. He put a big bucket off a 25t machine on it and just uses the teeth to loosen and then a ditching bucket to level. He can cover a 50ac outdoor unit in a day easily he says.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

what make are you using? Any web links?

The blade is Zaga and the box grader Oxdale.

 

[Jim75]

Toptilth will do a good job, got a loan of a 6m on 145hp on sand land to be fair and you can pull some serious ground if you want to. Using it to level land that’s been hammered in winter time after the plough to get a bowling green finish ideally for going into grass

 

[JonL]

A mounted grading blade has been quite effective for us, set up with the concave face forwards. Pulls soil into wallow holes, then in reverse can levels what has been deposited. Just a quick run forward for levelling fence lines. Recently got a mounted box grader which is good on rutted roadways, I haven't yet tried it on a vacated field.

We have a levelling blade which is excellent in the right hands, but a disaster in the wrong ones! I like the idea of a box grader. How wide is yours and on what horsepower please?

 

[Suffolk Serf]

We have a levelling blade which is excellent in the right hands, but a disaster in the wrong ones! I like the idea of a box grader. How wide is yours and on what horsepower please?

It’s the 8ft heavy duty model and we put it on 100hp Stockman tractor (Claas Arion 420) as that is all I have (3 of).
Would be easy to get it badly stuck in the wrong hands in the wrong conditions as with a blade but does two jobs with the tickling tines and the grading box.