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Reseeding high ground

  • 12-07-2017 8:08am
    #1
    mythos110
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    Hi All.

    Hoping to reseed some high ground that hasn't been travelled before. I've cleaned it with the digger in the past but its now back covered in gorse as it wasn't levelled well enough to keep topped.
    I'm going to clean it again, but my problem remains to get it well levelled and reseeded. I think the soil is too light and too stoney to pull a conventional plough through it and I want to give it a bit more than just a top dressing of a power harrow.
    I had a notion of getting a chisel plough set to a low depth to help level and plough it then give a single run of the power harrow with the air seeder to finish off.
    Has anyone used a chisel plough for this type of ground or am I wasting my time. Alternatively would a heavy disc (like a Catros) do as good or a better job than the chisel plough?


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  • #2
    Wildsurfer
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    How will you manage the stones you will inevitably turn up, bring in a stone crusher or stone picker? Will you rip it or level it with a dozer?


  • #3
    mythos110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭mythos110


    Not sure to be honest. I was thinking a land rake on the digger to pull the larger ones to level ground and then load and dump them in a hole!

    I'm kinda hoping the chisel plough might pull some of them for me...


  • #4
    bogman_bass
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    If you are clearing it with a track machine I would just sow the grass straight on top but you will have a seed burden there that will germinate and will need to be sprayed


  • #5
    Username John
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    I would clear it, leave the weeds come, and then spray with Roundup / Gallup - power harrow and reseed.

    I have a field similar to this, that was cleared with a digger, and just seed sown direct on top, and its destroyed with weeds... Whereas other times I have done this, I always let the weeds come and sprayed


  • #6
    ganmo
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    You'll have to be prepared to spray the ground after. Furze bushes are easy controlled when they're young


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  • #7
    TPF2012
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    ganmo wrote:
    You'll have to be prepared to spray the ground after. Furze bushes are easy controlled when they're young

    What can you use on low furze whins, yes spot spraying grazon the only option?


  • #8
    mythos110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭mythos110


    ganmo wrote: »
    You'll have to be prepared to spray the ground after. Furze bushes are easy controlled when they're young

    No problems travelling it once it gets cleared. There is landing ground top and bottom.
    We did a similar bit of ground last year where we cleared/ploughed and power harrowed and it did a mighty job. I can keep that topped now which is keeping the weeds at bay but it does need a spray on the young furze now alright.


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