Levelling ploughed ground
- Thread starter Devon lad
- Start date
no its not really for that purpose.
and working too deep will bring turf etc back up and spoil the seedbed for small seeds particularly.
the ploughing should be done better is the first answer, its an exspensive job these days so it should be done as well as can be. by someone who has patience to sort it if not good.
as far as cultivation goes for the purpose a tume/ woods would be ok for the job. unless very heavy ground.
working too deep will bring turf etc back up and spoil the seedbed for small seeds particularly.
job to find good ones now and im not sure if they are made new now by anyone. dowdeswell made one like it once a upon a time as well.
and working too deep will bring turf etc back up and spoil the seedbed for small seeds particularly.
the ploughing should be done better is the first answer, its an exspensive job these days so it should be done as well as can be. by someone who has patience to sort it if not good.
as far as cultivation goes for the purpose a tume/ woods would be ok for the job. unless very heavy ground.
working too deep will bring turf etc back up and spoil the seedbed for small seeds particularly.
job to find good ones now and im not sure if they are made new now by anyone. dowdeswell made one like it once a upon a time as well.
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- Location
- Cirencester
It'll just move the clods around and leave the ground very "ridged" Ideally you want to run through with a power harrow, you could then re-seed straight into it, roll, job done. I've tried Spring tine type implements for the same task and they don't really do a lot unless you're on light ground or sand, found here it needed multiple passes and was just as quick to run the power harrow over it.
- Location
- Wales UK
Power harrow
- Location
- Northumberland
...and plenty of rolling
- Location
- The North
We used to use loads of stuff to get it level all types of harrows nothing beats a power harrow you can nearly get away with 1 pass with a good one just roll plough furrows first
- Location
- Cirencester
Put some new tines on it and whack it in deeper or conversely get your ploughman to plough shallower (and maybe learn to plough!!)
We had a speed Harrow which did a good job but really needed 200hp to get to a decent depth, and our tractor didn’t quite have enough grunt really
There too use to ploughing for maize around here, can’t get anyone to plough at 6”, half the time there trying to bury god knows how much slurry in
A 3m
A 3m speed Harrow type thing would be ideal
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's the kind of drag I'd use to level ploughing
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After about 6 months weathering.
Looks tidy though.
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After about 6 months weathering.
Looks tidy though.
4m one will be ok on 100hp unless steep ground.
its not a tool for deep working .
but for reseeding the ploughing needs to be level above all else.because the shallow working for grass seeding wont do so much fundamental levelling after.
- Location
- Darlington
Don`t think your fergy 20 will boss it 
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
Front press and power harrow.
On an angle?
- Location
- Cirencester
A but it wouldn’t need it after I’d ploughed it with my Fergie, level as a snooker table!!Don`t think your fergy 20 will boss it
There you are the contract could be yours,! do you charge by the acre or hour ?
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