food plot tools?
 

what would you guys recommend i use to get my food plots started? these plots will not be anything big just something around 1000 sqft. i currently own a 99 arctic cat 250 2wd quad with high and low gear. should i buy a disc for my quad or should i just buy a 5hp walk behind rototiller. the ground is sand/dirt with some rocks. thanks

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[ul][*]The number one most important foodplot toolis a herbicide sprayer. Hand, backpack, or mounted, ya need to kill existing vegetation before you plant, and control weeds after. Seed, fertilizer, lime, can be spread by hand if neccessary on small plots.[*]Next is aspreader, push, tow, or mounted. This is for spreading fertilizer, large seed, and maybe lime. A small hand spreader is better for tiny seed like clovers and brassicas. Tiny seeds work best for no plow type plots.[*]Third is a disk harrow, pulled by a ATV, lawn mower, or tractor. You want the heaviest you can pull. This mixes lime, fertilzer, and dead vegetation into the soil. When set shallow, will also bury larger seed. [/ul]
You can use rototillers, cultipackers, seed drills, plows, and other equiptmentwhen you have them available ... but the aboveare the basics, in order of importance. And always try and have a soil test done so you only attempt to plant what will grow in your soil.

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ok, i got a sprayer one of those small ones you carry its just a 4 gallon one you pump and spray i just used that last week with roundup in it. when i go back up in a week or so i was debating on getting a disc for my quad or a walk behind rototiller, which do you think would be better? also i i have a hand and push spreader

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anybody know of a decently priced disc for an atv

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would this work ?http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...seBVCookie=Yes

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anybody have any input???

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would this work to tear up the ground http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=95378-203-45-0266&lpage=noneor should i spend the extra 100 bucks and get a tiller

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I have never had those small disks work They are not heavy enough. Contact your soil and water office or a PF group in your area and rent a real disk or something. To buy a piece that works correctly you will spend lots more than $150.

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if you can locate one, a tiller is the best, i use mine and guys from out of town pay me to bush hog and use my tiller on their food plots.i don't use any spray, just bush hog and tiller, end results powder dirt.heres one thats around 14 days old

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nice plot one on one what kind of tiller do u use?and brand?

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Howes brand, 6 foot,$1400.00 and worth every penny to me,some florida hunters seen my plots and hired me on the spot.

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I can see why.

Great work.

Jeff

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We rented a atv disc setup from Gander mountain for a wknd. They also sell the same setup for like $850. Its pretty heavy duty, had to add a little weight to get it to dig in. But it worked, and we disc up a 1 acre plot for next spring on previously unplowed ground. It took longer than the tractor, and bottom land plow setup we used 3yrs back for our present plot. But we didn't have that option anymore.

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heres the jd and tiller in action,

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I'm not a big fan of rototillers. They are hard on the soil structure. But if the soil is mostly sand, there isn't a lot of structure there to destroy. They also chop residue into pieces, which makes it decay much faster. Organic matter in my neck of the woods is low to begin with, so I try to manage residue so that I've always got some to work with.