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.

 

[victory]

I will grant you they prefer wheat over rye but the amount of OM produced by the rye is why it is preferred. Have you ever watched the video by grant woods on growing deer TV called Big Sandy. It is a landowner in Texas who basically transformed a sand patch from discing to a no till paradise in 3 years. It might change your mind

 

[Mennoniteman]

I will grant you they prefer wheat over rye but the amount of OM produced by the rye is why it is preferred. Have you ever watched the video by grant woods on growing deer TV called Big Sandy. It is a landowner in Texas who basically transformed a sand patch from discing to a no till paradise in 3 years. It might change your mind

I'm a rye fan, now trying some triticale, I've heard good things about it, the characteristics of rye and the flavor of wheat. Some guys said that deer seem to actually prefer triticale over wheat...

 

[victory]

Men I was so looking forward to broadcasting tritacle this year but it was not harvested before I left to go up north this year. Please keep me posted on how the tritacle works.

 

[Drycreek]

I will grant you they prefer wheat over rye but the amount of OM produced by the rye is why it is preferred. Have you ever watched the video by grant woods on growing deer TV called Big Sandy. It is a landowner in Texas who basically transformed a sand patch from discing to a no till paradise in 3 years. It might change your mind

Yep, I have. Grant was the one who convinced me to try this method. It just doesn’t give me the kind of plots that I’ve always had by minimal tilling. I just scratch grooves in the ground with a disc when I plant and I almost always have great plots. With the broadcast and crimp method I just didn’t have satisfactory plots. I don’t have a drill and I’m certainly not going to spend that kind of money on one to use about 20 hours a year.

I don’t believe everything Doctor Woods says about food plotting. Hell, mine look better than many of his do. I can’t believe I destroy most of the “beneficial microbes” and earthworms when I scratch the surface of a plot that has fried all summer. If there were any there, they’ve gone deeper or gotten fried. We can’t plant here in August or even early September because it’s too dry usually. We have to wait on a rain or the promise of one, then we have to worry about army worms. I have seen them eat a half acre wheat plot to the ground in a 24 hour period. It was 3”/4” tall. Nothing you can do but replant.

Believe me, I wish I could get the plots I want by broadcasting and crimping, it saves lots of tractor time and diesel fuel. Look carefully at the smaller picture above. The doe is looking straight at a buck. You can just see the outline of his rack. That’s how tall and thick that plot was. Planted with a disc and a drag in May of ‘24 and was just about gone by August. It’s a Green Cover blend and I can’t complain about their seeds !