Ground too hard to cultivate????

amacca

Any of ye having trouble getting someone to cultivate a bit of ground in order to put in a forage crop?

Lad was going to do it for me but says ground is too hard.....

I wouldn't mind even if the top inch of ground was power harrowed, surely that wouldn't be a problem?

I'd be more easy going normally, but I need the crop to fill a winter feed gap and the field has been burnt off for about 5/6 weeks now. It doesn't seem rock hard to me after walking it, very little plants taking water up with their roots, a wide margin of the field usually very soft in normal weather.

Dakota Dan

Is he assuming it's too hard or did he try to cultivate it? Plenty ploughing ground here even during the drought.

amacca

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Is he assuming it's too hard or did he try to cultivate it? Plenty ploughing ground here even during the drought.

Hes assuming but maybe he has a basis for it. He's probably tried to disc fields a couple of kilometres away and assumed mine are the same..

I don't think they are (they're boggy at the margins but there is an upland part I suppose) but to be fair I'm no expert.

Roughly what part of the country are you in do you mind me asking?.....would the ground be very dry there?

I wouldn't normally be this impatient but I need the feed and every day I don't sow means loss of feed and a bigger feed bill at a time when the prices will probably be sky high....ve had the field ready to go for 5 or more weeks now and been waiting patiently to get it done...

What do you think of a request just to tear up the top couple of inches or so? That surely wouldn't put a machine under too much pressure??

20silkcut

amacca wrote: »

Hes assuming but maybe he has a basis for it. He's probably tried to disc fields a couple of kilometres away and assumed mine are the same..

I don't think they are (they're boggy at the margins but there is an upland part I suppose) but to be fair I'm no expert.

Roughly what part of the country are you in do you mind me asking?.....would the ground be very dry there?

I wouldn't normally be this impatient but I need the feed and every day I don't sow means loss of feed and a bigger feed bill at a time when the prices will probably be sky high....ve had the field ready to go for 5 or more weeks now and been waiting patiently to get it done...

What do you think of a request just to tear up the top couple of inches or so? That surely wouldn't put a machine under too much pressure??

You will probably have to plough it.

Bass Reeves

No need to plough for forage crops. Disc with a disc harrow that had each disc independent. 2 runs did the job. Got it done this day week. It came up a treat. Got seed in an rolled in 2-3 hours. Seed starting to germinate yesterday. You will need someting to keep crows away for a few weeks

If he has one of those trailed disc where all discs are fixed it a waste of time especially on grassland

Reggie.

Plenty of ploughing and powerharrowing going on around here

Dakota Dan

amacca wrote: »

Hes assuming but maybe he has a basis for it. He's probably tried to disc fields a couple of kilometres away and assumed mine are the same..

I don't think they are (they're boggy at the margins but there is an upland part I suppose) but to be fair I'm no expert.

Roughly what part of the country are you in do you mind me asking?.....would the ground be very dry there?

I wouldn't normally be this impatient but I need the feed and every day I don't sow means loss of feed and a bigger feed bill at a time when the prices will probably be sky high....ve had the field ready to go for 5 or more weeks now and been waiting patiently to get it done...

What do you think of a request just to tear up the top couple of inches or so? That surely wouldn't put a machine under too much pressure??

Cork, ploughing dry ground.

bogman_bass

Sounds like he doesn’t want the job. Try another lad.

Jimbo789

Would using a subsoiler before ploughing hard ground make it easier to plough?

Joe Daly

Even if they are dry he takes his time he should be able to do it we are starting at stubble ground its hard it will take longer to do.

Eamonn8448

is the land very stoney ? power harrows cost alot to maintain but it really sounds like he dont want the job, power harrow has been going every 2-3 days here albeit it previously ploughed and cultivated land, stubble was disc harrowed 2 weeks ago, get someone whos willing to do it, no point hanging around and regreting it later