The latest farm toy
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Crimson n' Camo
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Sweet!!! 
Mennoniteman
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A nice machine. An International at that. Does that thing work with downpressure or just machine weight? And what does it weigh?
I'll attach it to the quick hitch on rear. Has a port for adding water though it weighs over 1400 lbs. already. I explored making it so it would attach to front end loader to use while pulling drill behind. Can still retrofit if I decide to, but thought I would experiment a bit first. I'll crimp some sorghum and egyptian wheat this fall with it .
I've been running drill thru standing rye and other crops, just haven't been satisfied with outcome. This has been on wish list for a few years.
I've been running drill thru standing rye and other crops, just haven't been satisfied with outcome. This has been on wish list for a few years.
Mennoniteman
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I've been dreaming of putting something of that type of roller crimpers on my 10' great plains drill so that it's a single hookup, single pass attachment because I'm also not quite satisfied with just running the drill through standing crops. I get a good seed germination rates but a fair portion the prior crop stays standing for a long time when it should be lying on the ground for mulch cover.
Took the new roller crimper out for a test run today on a pure stand of
sunn hemp and a field of sorghum and egyptian wheat. Kinda intimidating when the jungle of hemp is 3' taller than the top of the tractor. Big fun though and I am very happy with the results. Had a coyote hunting rats while working and he liked the method also.
sunn hemp and a field of sorghum and egyptian wheat. Kinda intimidating when the jungle of hemp is 3' taller than the top of the tractor. Big fun though and I am very happy with the results. Had a coyote hunting rats while working and he liked the method also.
It is used in conjunction with a no till ag program. A roller crimper lays down taller cover crops and 'crimps' them thus cutting of circulatory flow killing the plant. I doubt it will kill the thicker stalks on the hemp but it still flattened the plants and created the thatch cover I was after. I will spray with gly to terminate any weeds or plants still living. It was very effective on the Egyptian wheat/sorgham field.
The roller crimper is especially effective at terminating a thick tall stand of rye in the spring, again, creating a thatch layer suppressing weeds and creating organic matter. I will follow both the summer and spring crops going with the grain and drill directly into the thatch.
What are you going to do in that field now?
Keep us updated with pictures and how everything works out with each crop.
I follow this forum almost every day but I don't write much.
I would love to own some land some day and use the cover crop roller and see how it works with all the different crops.
I'm actually in partnership at I&J Manufacturing and we had another awesome year with the cover crop rollers.
We can build almost any size you want.
I follow this forum almost every day but I don't write much.
I would love to own some land some day and use the cover crop roller and see how it works with all the different crops.
I'm actually in partnership at I&J Manufacturing and we had another awesome year with the cover crop rollers.
We can build almost any size you want.
Cool. I'd like to go that route but the cost of a no-till drill is just too much for a food plot hobby.
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My ultimate strategy is to plant this field in alfalfa fall of 2018. It is the sandiest most well drained field I have. As you can see, today I am amending with 2 tons lime per acre.{ the whole filed is 6 acres } PH is 5.04
I will plant with 100 lbs/ acre rye, 3 lbs acre radishes and 10 lbs/acre crimson this fall drilled directly to the hemp thatch. Then next spring I'm going back with straight hemp again at 15 lbs/acre. The goal is to amp up the om and nutritional profile of the soil for the alfalfa to be a success .Both proud and green with envy! Driving in circles around a field with new equipment breaks the monotony. Don't you guys ever get tired driving in circles?
They paint it red so you can find it in that tall stuff when the hitch pin breaks! Really? Sounds good! I'd bet the red paint was on the clearance shelf last year!
I am also a little disappointed.
You guys keep thinking about planting covers and rolling them to plant more covers...over and over...and the intuitive thought process has the parking brake ON! So...lets think outside the box here for a moment and take the brake off and drive somewhere NEW! Grown up areas with brambles, briers, tall weeds and grasses often present a cost burden to convert into something more 'plot like'...but no body gets real excited about doing the 'conversion'. The 'diverse native cover crop' plant types however support highly important soil microbial types due to lack of disturbance....fertility is 'inherent enough with the biology' to support a tame cover crop mix well chosen. So.....who's got game here?....anyone willing to roll the weed/brier/thorn patch and run the drill over it with mixed cover crop and no herbicide? A plant is a plant...and cover is cover.....and the roller don't care if it's a native plant or a planted crop!
Is a roller truly a 'buffalo' effect?
American Bison (Grant's buffalo) actual despise brush. Bison will take sufficient time to beat brush to the death...literally. To the point people who want trees on the landscape got rid of bison and went back to cattle.
So if the roller is a 'buffalo effect'...well....I need more proofing!
Keep thinking outside the box....keep having fun....mow brush stob a tire....roll it, maybe not,
Doug
