Roller Crimper

[Drycreek]

Any interest in a roller crimper ? It’s not factory, but it does the job well. I tried my best to go no till by broadcasting and crimping, but Texas heat leaves me with nothing to crimp in the fall and my timing in spring doesn’t match our rainfall. Made by a professional welder and works well. Pillow block bearings with zerks. Price leaves room for freight. I forgot to say that although the drum was empty, it can be filled with water or sand.

$1,500

 

[victory]

Dry creek please post a picture of your fields before you would start crimping? I just crimped my fields this week. Before and after with duff.

 

[Drycreek]

I guess I deleted all of my pictures to make room for more on my iPad. I have one of one plot, but I did have some pics of a wheat crop laid down. The crimper works great, and I could use it in the spring to crimp the fall plot, but I can’t get a good stand doing it that way. This plot was planted using minimal tilling, and it works best for me. By the time September rolled around there was not enough left to crimp.

 

[victory]

Dry I am curious how in 45 days did all the vegetation go away. There is plenty standing to broadcast into and crimp your duff onto the seed? For sure I would not use wheat only rye for added duff.

 

[Drycreek]

Between the deer eating it, the hogs eating it, and the hot weather in August and September there just wasn’t much left. I couldn’t plant my fall plot in the above pictured spot until almost October it was so dry. This is at home. The spring plot was great as you can see but it just didn’t last. Our summers can be brutal !

I know lots of guys prefer rye, but my side by side test last fall showed me that “my” deer prefer wheat. The rye I planted consistently stayed about twice as tall as the wheat. They eventually ate it all down to the ground but that’s because it’s only an acre and we have many deer.