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High Field Reseed Options... Plough or Other

  • 23-08-2012 8:51am
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    49801
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    Burnt off a field for reseeding a coupld of weeks ago.
    It is very old grass with lots of Docks etc. Never been ploughed in anyones memory. It has lots of Natural terracing and would be a bit nerve wrecking in section spreading fert.

    Plan was to Plough>Rail>Power Harrow>Set

    Time is pushing on now and getting concerned about the time frame with the weather/soil the way it is.

    Just thinking outload and wondering should I hold tough for a Plough or should I try something else like multiple chain harrowing?


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  • #2
    epfff
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    49801 wrote: »
    Burnt off a field for reseeding a coupld of weeks ago.
    It is very old grass with lots of Docks etc. Never been ploughed in anyones memory. It has lots of Natural terracing and would be a bit nerve wrecking in section spreading fert.

    Plan was to Plough>Rail>Power Harrow>Set

    Time is pushing on now and getting concerned about the time frame with the weather/soil the way it is.

    Just thinking outload and wondering should I hold tough for a Plough or should I try something else like multiple chain harrowing?
    Disk is your man


  • #3
    49801
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    epfff wrote: »
    Disk is your man

    With the ground this wet?


  • #4
    epfff
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    49801 wrote: »
    epfff wrote: »
    Disk is your man

    With the ground this wet?
    My ground very sandy so 2 dry days together top few inches dry.
    Im bet after that


  • #5
    49801
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    we disced in the autumn before and we were not that happy with it but it was still the right tool for the job.

    it would need at least 2 if not 3 passes of the disc's several days apart and power harrowing as well.
    It'll be far from weather proof.
    If i could get 3/4 good drying days in a row I'd plough but still far from weather proof afterwards.

    confused


  • #6
    Username John
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    I would have said plough is best - but I had a field similar to you last year.
    See post here

    Its a high field, awkward in places, some places the plough couldn't go deep enough to turn the sod. So these places were disced... and they looked terrible afterwards, with bits of sods all over the ground... (compared to the nice clean ploughed ground)
    It got lime & was reseeded, and in time - the parts with the soft sods on the ground had the best grass, it came better than parts that were ploughed...

    One thing we did was waited to put out fertilser about 2 weeks later, and cos the ground was high, the tractor tore tracks into the soft ground (it was a bit wet as well) cos it was high... so I would say put it all out together, and then close the gate and be done with it.

    I haven't done enough of either to say which is better, but that's my experience so far.


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    coolshannagh28
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    49801 wrote: »
    Burnt off a field for reseeding a coupld of weeks ago.
    It is very old grass with lots of Docks etc. Never been ploughed in anyones memory. It has lots of Natural terracing and would be a bit nerve wrecking in section spreading fert.

    Plan was to Plough>Rail>Power Harrow>Set

    Time is pushing on now and getting concerned about the time frame with the weather/soil the way it is.

    Just thinking outload and wondering should I hold tough for a Plough or should I try something else like multiple chain harrowing?

    Reseeded 10 ac of high poor ground that had never been cultivated earlier this year . Sprayed off, limed and got a contractor to mulch top 4 inches , spread fertilizer , single run with disc , broadcast seed and finished with single run of disc. Despite the weather its a great hit and not soft or wet as with deep disc reseed which I tried last year .


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    kevthegaff
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    I have reseeded about 100 acres in the last 4 yrs, 60 ploughed and 40 power harrowed with a seed box on it sowing it in one go. The plough pulled up an awful lot of stones and the ground is wet in some areas and rock hard in others prob due to springs. The power harrow worked out brilliantly for me cos the depth of soil isnt much. PH i would advise:)


  • #9
    49801
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    kevthegaff wrote: »
    I have reseeded about 100 acres in the last 4 yrs, 60 ploughed and 40 power harrowed with a seed box on it sowing it in one go. The plough pulled up an awful lot of stones and the ground is wet in some areas and rock hard in others prob due to springs. The power harrow worked out brilliantly for me cos the depth of soil isnt much. PH i would advise:)

    If I could one pass it with a PH and grass seed I would.
    But the natural teracing has me cooked.


  • #10
    49801
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    chickening out of setting grass in there this year. :mad:

    Bought a bag of rape seed and will just scratch it with a KKK on a dry day (if they ever come) and spin it on with a bit of CAN.

    will strip graze it with a few weanling hiefers and have a go at it in the spring instead


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