Pulling a disc with an atv

[Hogmauler]

Pull a kingkutter atv disc with a Polaris ranger. King cutter is offset some and discs about 32” in a pass.
if it is dry, (almost always in the panhandle) then you have to add as much weight as possible. Use cinder blocks full of concrete and some old tractor weights.
found that disking is best done by going in circles or figure 8s.

Wow. I wonder why circular pattern is better?

[Hogmauler]

I use a Groundhog Max. It works like a champ. I beefed the hitch up on the back of my Grizzly because I was worried I might hit something hard and bend or break something.

https://youtu.be/nuThWyxnCf8

Here is a time laps of last years food plot. My son and I did this in about 45min.

Wow! So the disc grass is all cut up and turned under? Do you need to spray the grass a couple of weeks before disking ?

[dbaio1]

My recommendation is to hire a tractor to build your plots with a solid disc set the first time. Then use an ATV type smaller disc to build and maintain your plots.

[Hogmauler]

I have had a hard time getting good results pulling a disc with a tractor. It really depends on soil conditions, especially moisture content. For where I live, I wouldn't even bother to try with an ATV. I don't know where you live. If the soil is soft where you live, you might get enough penetration to plant shallow seeds. A couple hundred pounds of ballast on the disc will help. I used fifty five gallon drums filled with water on my 72 inch disc.

I have sandy loam soil so it’s very soft

[locolobo]

How much weight for sandy loam?

About 50 lbs in Sandy loam, 100 here in my gumbo clay, especially if it's dry.

[Bayouboy]

What brand James? And where did you buy it?

https://palletforks.com/products/4-ft-atv-notched-disc-harrow?variant=47327923568944&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADkcQ2SqZLGUHNJBOlp1YjbE1saOV&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhr3q4cnQigMVvhp7Bx3DHi6fEAQYBCABEgL7FvD_BwE

mine was like this. This is what I had at the Segno camp you came to years ago. I made my food plots with it. I mostly used my truck because I had room to do it. In the tight areas I used my foreman 400.

[Hogmauler]

https://palletforks.com/products/4-ft-atv-notched-disc-harrow?variant=47327923568944&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADkcQ2SqZLGUHNJBOlp1YjbE1saOV&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhr3q4cnQigMVvhp7Bx3DHi6fEAQYBCABEgL7FvD_BwE

mine was like this. This is what I had at the Segno camp you came to years ago. I made my food plots with it. I mostly used my truck because I had room to do it. In the tight areas I used my foreman 400.

Awesome. Are you still using the same one?

[Hogmauler]

My recommendation is to hire a tractor to build your plots with a solid disc set the first time. Then use an ATV type smaller disc to build and maintain your plots.

I think that’s a good idea. Get the tractor to start em up and maintain em with an Atv. Great stuff gentleman.

[brokeno]

Depending on the soil. Sand yes,

[txbowman12]

I wouldn't bother with a disc if I were you. Buy a 25 gallon sprayer and spend your disc money on a cultipacker (I have a packermax and it's been great). Start planting cereal grains, daikon radish, and clover in the fall (mid october ahead of a front), and if you really want something in the spring, plant into that and spray it with glyphosphate.

I've been planting successful plots for years by just broadcasting seed with a shoulder spreader and spraying glyphosphate. Do that a couple days ahead of a good rain and you are off to the races. Took me three tries this fall with the la nina rain pattern (i.e. no rain), but finally got some elbon rye going now.

[Bayouboy]

Awesome. Are you still using the same one?

No. I sold it years ago. I gave up on food plots years ago in East Tx. Between the hogs and rabbits the deer didn’t have a chance. Everything got eaten as soon as it sprouted.

[Hogmauler]

Gotcha

[Hogmauler]

No. I sold it years ago. I gave up on food plots years ago in East Tx. Between the hogs and rabbits the deer didn’t have a chance. Everything got eaten as soon as it sprouted.

I got ya James. I broadcast Bob oats with a push spreader in November just to stress test my heart. It wasn’t till then that we started getting rain. They came up and it appears that the deer are keeping em ate down. We did almost a 300 yard strip on the right of way. Doesn’t seem to have attracted anymore deer to the property though