Starting From Scratch - Food Plot Equipment

[HB_Hunter]

Our local office has one that you can rent. As has been mentioned, the hard part is getting it when you need it.

 

[Satguy]

Quick question for all the food plotters.

If you were starting from scratch, what food plot equipment would you buy to strictly plant food plots for deer?

Money is a factor, but a good argument can be made for money vs time.

I started from scratch last year and heres what I did. I bought a 74 ford 3000 deisel tractor for $800 in good shape. I put $2000 into it. It came with a 6ft blade, lift boom 6ft finish mower and a dredge bucket. I bought a cultipacker for $275 used and a king cutter pull behind spreader for $600 new. A new 6ft king cutter tiller for $1700 new. And a rebuilt allis chalmers 2 row planter for $1100. 7ft disc for $600 I already had an earthway hand rotary seeder. You already have the big ticket item in your tractor and watch craigslist for the rest. There are good buys on there.

 

[Satguy]

Quick question for all the food plotters.

If you were starting from scratch, what food plot equipment would you buy to strictly plant food plots for deer?

Money is a factor, but a good argument can be made for money vs time.

Here is an awesome deal on a cultipacker in eastern kentucky.
https://lexington.craigslist.org/grd/5700543731.html

 

[The Famous Grouse]

I get a lot done on 10 acres with an old John Deere 2010 tractor with a Schwartz loader, and a new 8 foot disc (3 point). Those are my only tractor implements for now, but I will add a brush mower next year.

For behind the ATV, I have a lawn roller,a 150 pound broadcast spreader, and a 20 gallon sprayer with a 5 nozzle boom that does 12+ feet per pass.

To me, the sprayer is one of the most important pieces of equipment that often doesn't get talked about much. Spraying can be very time consuming and often I'm doing it in a hurry to take advantage of available time and weather, so when it's Go Time, I want to be able to lay down spray fast. Also, there's a lot of lawn/garden sprayers on the market that aren't suitable for heavy duty food plot use, so time and effort must be used to find or build the right solution for your needs.

There's a lot of nice-to-haves, but if needs be, you can always find a workaround. For example, it would be NICE to have a 4 row planter for soybeans, but that's a lot of cost and time and effort for what I intend to plant, so a pretty good workaround is simply to broadcast the beans. Sure a few get driven down when spraying , but compared to the cost of a planter, this is not a big deal.

 

[j-bird]

I can't imagine the look on my wife's face if I told her I was buying a drill......I know how that would go down!

ME speaking: "Hey, Babe I need to by me a drill."
Her: "That's fine, did you break the one you have?"

ME thinking: Noooo - she started with questions already.....defcon 1 - Questions? Questions are bad!
ME speaking: "Um....yep....that's it!"
ME thinking: You better remember to smile! You know she is thinking "power tool" and not "plotting tool" - your gonna regret this!

Her: "I'll go to Lowes with you."

ME thinking: Oh #$%& - defcon 2, consider aborting the mission and stop sweating!
ME speaking: "No, no, I need to go to the implement store."

Then there is the dreaded, long pause of awkward silence....I used a word she has a way of detecting even if I think it...."implement"....and she looks up at me and it's like she can see my very soul! She knows I'm up to no good now and now she is going to make me pay!

Her: "What sort of DRILL are you buying exactly?!?"
ME in my head: Yep - defcon 3, More questions! Put the military on stand-by, close the border, get the president on the phone - you can sense the hostility! Stare at your shoes, put your hands in your pockets and above all else, STOP TALKING!
ME out loud: "Uuuummmm"
ME in my head: NO - I said DO NOT SPEAK!!!!!

Her:"What's this DRILL going to cost?!?"
ME in my head: Defcon 4! I'm a dead man! Start playing "taps". Planes are in the air armed with nukes and headed towards their target! I'm about to enter a war I CAN'T win against an enemy that I know has no fear AND plays dirty!!! And my best plan of action is to SHUT UP and RUN!!!

And before she can ask anymore questions and before I say something really stupid and with an internal sense of self-preservation I just turn around and go back outside and put something rusty on the hitch of the tractor and go hide for a while!!!!

I just avoided a thermonuclear disaster in which the world as I know it would have ended! The enemy I faced would have let the world burn just to ensure I was not victorious. I would not have survived, she would have squashed me like a bug. I almost feel lucky getting out alive!!!!

Drill....right! At least that sort of drill..... only way I'm gonna see a drill is if she runs one over the shallow grave she puts me in!

Laugh all you want.....I'm not alone......

 

[Twolftg]

I can't imagine the look on my wife's face if I told her I was buying a drill......I know how that would go down!

ME speaking: "Hey, Babe I need to by me a drill."
Her: "That's fine, did you break the one you have?"

ME thinking: Noooo - she started with questions already.....defcon 1 - Questions? Questions are bad!
ME speaking: "Um....yep....that's it!"
ME thinking: You better remember to smile! You know she is thinking "power tool" and not "plotting tool" - your gonna regret this!

Her: "I'll go to Lowes with you."

ME thinking: Oh #$%& - defcon 2, consider aborting the mission and stop sweating!
ME speaking: "No, no, I need to go to the implement store."

Then there is the dreaded, long pause of awkward silence....I used a word she has a way of detecting even if I think it...."implement"....and she looks up at me and it's like she can see my very soul! She knows I'm up to no good now and now she is going to make me pay!

Her: "What sort of DRILL are you buying exactly?!?"
ME in my head: Yep - defcon 3, More questions! Put the military on stand-by, close the border, get the president on the phone - you can sense the hostility! Stare at your shoes, put your hands in your pockets and above all else, STOP TALKING!
ME out loud: "Uuuummmm"
ME in my head: NO - I said DO NOT SPEAK!!!!!

Her:"What's this DRILL going to cost?!?"
ME in my head: Defcon 4! I'm a dead man! Start playing "taps". Planes are in the air armed with nukes and headed towards their target! I'm about to enter a war I CAN'T win against an enemy that I know has no fear AND plays dirty!!! And my best plan of action is to SHUT UP and RUN!!!

And before she can ask anymore questions and before I say something really stupid and with an internal sense of self-preservation I just turn around and go back outside and put something rusty on the hitch of the tractor and go hide for a while!!!!

I just avoided a thermonuclear disaster in which the world as I know it would have ended! The enemy I faced would have let the world burn just to ensure I was not victorious. I would not have survived, she would have squashed me like a bug. I almost feel lucky getting out alive!!!!

Drill....right! At least that sort of drill..... only way I'm gonna see a drill is if she runs one over the shallow grave she puts me in!

Laugh all you want.....I'm not alone......

I get the same thing over a new atv...

 

[HB_Hunter]

Here is an awesome deal on a cultipacker in eastern kentucky.
https://lexington.craigslist.org/grd/5700543731.html

Thanks for the link! Email sent. I've been watching craigslist, but there aren't many there. That's a 10' too and I'd have trouble getting it to some of the locations I want to plant.

 

[HB_Hunter]

I can't imagine the look on my wife's face if I told her I was buying a drill......I know how that would go down!

ME speaking: "Hey, Babe I need to by me a drill."
Her: "That's fine, did you break the one you have?"

ME thinking: Noooo - she started with questions already.....defcon 1 - Questions? Questions are bad!
ME speaking: "Um....yep....that's it!"
ME thinking: You better remember to smile! You know she is thinking "power tool" and not "plotting tool" - your gonna regret this!

Her: "I'll go to Lowes with you."

ME thinking: Oh #$%& - defcon 2, consider aborting the mission and stop sweating!
ME speaking: "No, no, I need to go to the implement store."

Then there is the dreaded, long pause of awkward silence....I used a word she has a way of detecting even if I think it...."implement"....and she looks up at me and it's like she can see my very soul! She knows I'm up to no good now and now she is going to make me pay!

Her: "What sort of DRILL are you buying exactly?!?"
ME in my head: Yep - defcon 3, More questions! Put the military on stand-by, close the border, get the president on the phone - you can sense the hostility! Stare at your shoes, put your hands in your pockets and above all else, STOP TALKING!
ME out loud: "Uuuummmm"
ME in my head: NO - I said DO NOT SPEAK!!!!!

Her:"What's this DRILL going to cost?!?"
ME in my head: Defcon 4! I'm a dead man! Start playing "taps". Planes are in the air armed with nukes and headed towards their target! I'm about to enter a war I CAN'T win against an enemy that I know has no fear AND plays dirty!!! And my best plan of action is to SHUT UP and RUN!!!

And before she can ask anymore questions and before I say something really stupid and with an internal sense of self-preservation I just turn around and go back outside and put something rusty on the hitch of the tractor and go hide for a while!!!!

I just avoided a thermonuclear disaster in which the world as I know it would have ended! The enemy I faced would have let the world burn just to ensure I was not victorious. I would not have survived, she would have squashed me like a bug. I almost feel lucky getting out alive!!!!

Drill....right! At least that sort of drill..... only way I'm gonna see a drill is if she runs one over the shallow grave she puts me in!

Laugh all you want.....I'm not alone......

lol. My wife doesn't question my purchases. She's knows I've spent months researching and i rarely buy anything.

 

[Btaylor]

You better put your big boy britches on and go out to the barn and tell her who is freakin boss before she comes outside and hears you.

 

[j-bird]

I can't imagine the look on my wife's face if I told her I was buying a drill......I know how that would go down!

ME speaking: "Hey, Babe I need to by me a drill."
Her: "That's fine, did you break the one you have?"

ME thinking: Noooo - she started with questions already.....defcon 1 - Questions? Questions are bad!
ME speaking: "Um....yep....that's it!"
ME thinking: You better remember to smile! You know she is thinking "power tool" and not "plotting tool" - your gonna regret this!

Her: "I'll go to Lowes with you."

ME thinking: Oh #$%& - defcon 2, consider aborting the mission and stop sweating!
ME speaking: "No, no, I need to go to the implement store."

Then there is the dreaded, long pause of awkward silence....I used a word she has a way of detecting even if I think it...."implement"....and she looks up at me and it's like she can see my very soul! She knows I'm up to no good now and now she is going to make me pay!

Her: "What sort of DRILL are you buying exactly?!?"
ME in my head: Yep - defcon 3, More questions! Put the military on stand-by, close the border, get the president on the phone - you can sense the hostility! Stare at your shoes, put your hands in your pockets and above all else, STOP TALKING!
ME out loud: "Uuuummmm"
ME in my head: NO - I said DO NOT SPEAK!!!!!

Her:"What's this DRILL going to cost?!?"
ME in my head: Defcon 4! I'm a dead man! Start playing "taps". Planes are in the air armed with nukes and headed towards their target! I'm about to enter a war I CAN'T win against an enemy that I know has no fear AND plays dirty!!! And my best plan of action is to SHUT UP and RUN!!!

And before she can ask anymore questions and before I say something really stupid and with an internal sense of self-preservation I just turn around and go back outside and put something rusty on the hitch of the tractor and go hide for a while!!!!

I just avoided a thermonuclear disaster in which the world as I know it would have ended! The enemy I faced would have let the world burn just to ensure I was not victorious. I would not have survived, she would have squashed me like a bug. I almost feel lucky getting out alive!!!!

Drill....right! At least that sort of drill..... only way I'm gonna see a drill is if she runs one over the shallow grave she puts me in!

Laugh all you want.....I'm not alone......

I just read this to my wife! She glared across the room and asked what they cost - and I told her. She then says - Yep - you hit the nail on the head!

 

[Satguy]

Thanks for the link! Email sent. I've been watching craigslist, but there aren't many there. That's a 10' too and I'd have trouble getting it to some of the locations I want to plant.

For that price if it was closer to my location I would buy it for myself.

 

[Madmenz]

Rocks: How do you guys deal with rock issue? Is their a piece of equipment to affordable rent?
Or just manually pick up & pile of to the side...