[AT] Pulling a sheepsfoot with a Ford 8n

[Grant Brians]

Farmer, I would like to offer a thought. I don't now what frost knobs are as 
we don't have ground freezing temperatures here in Coastal Central 
California, but I can talk intelligently about rollers, compaction and field 
smoothing. If the goal is simply to smooth and the field is not wet, why not 
use what the old farmers here used - a series of boards or pieces of steel 
placd together to form essentially a corrugated surface, with some concrete 
weights on top. The first board knocks off a part of the bump, the second 
knocks off some more and by the third or fourth one, you have a nice smooth 
surface without excesssive compaction. Follow this with a spike harrow if 
you still need to break up the surface clods a little.
    Simple, cheap and easy to set up - the hardest part is connecting the 
boards together from the top without having too much sticking down that will 
wear. Give it a try and I think you will find this works well.
        Grant Brians
        Hollister California
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From: <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Pulling a sheepsfoot with a Ford 8n


> On 10 Feb 2005 at 12:12, Chuck Saunders wrote:
>
> This roller, which I am making myself
>> out of concrete (go ahead, laugh, get it out of your system), is much
>> smaller than anything I've found commercially.
>
>
> How many concrete sheep will it take and how are you going to strap them 
> to the roller.
> ;-)
>
> I am wanting  to make a concrete filled smooth roller to spring roll hay 
> fields with.
> Not huge but at least 10'  wide. I just want to mash down the frost heave 
> knobs etc. with
> it. I have thought of just ballasting my 10' cultipacker but would prefer 
> a smoother
> surface. I would also like to have one of those mat harrows made of heavy 
> links but its
> just not in the budget this year. I would like to be able to spread manure 
> and let it
> weather a while then drag it with one of those harrows and then overseed.
> I have been considering a temporary makeshift "knob, molehill and crawdad 
> tower knocker
> downer"    :-)   by dragging about 3 cattle panels one behind the other. 
> It would be
> pulled with the horizontal rods down and the 16' length crosswise. Maybe 
> even overseeding
> at the same time with a small broadcast seeder on the tractor I pull it 
> with.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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