Disc Harrowing Field, Preparing it to plant with Grass Hay

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hey guys welcome back so we're out here at our new hayfield and no this is actually not hay that you see behind me it's nice and green isn't it but that is some warm season grasses and a bunch of other stuff it's stuff that's actually considered weeds um and we haven't touched this field at all it hasn't been touched since last fall it did have corn in it last year so it was around october late october that this was probably harvested last year and it hasn't been touched since so there's a bunch of corn stalks that's up on the ground underneath all this you can't see it anymore but this is just what nature has done this is nature has kind of taken over this is the seeds that was in the soil and it's all come up but this is this is not good forage for for animals this is going to be considered a poor quality forage these warm season grasses there's there it's more of like a switch grass that's kind of growing up in here and we don't want that in our hay so today we're actually starting to work this hay field so that we can actually plant it into hay it's never been planted into hay and that's what we're working towards so we started off with the brush hog we went around the edges and trying to clean up around the edges the the blackberries and the brush and the trees you can see they want to keep growing into the field nature wants to keep taking this field back and so we've kind of cleaned up around the edges with the brush hog trying to knock that back a little bit and then the next thing we're going to do is we really want to have we don't want any of this in our hay fields we need to we need to kill off all of these weeds but instead of using a spray to kill them off what we're going to do is we're just going to disc the field so we're going to plow this field up with a disc and we'll work this and and cutting that disc will cut through all of these weeds it'll cut through all the roots it'll mix them up it'll dry out the soil and it'll it'll cause all of this vegetation to to die off we will plow it probably several times to make sure that it does die off but that's what we're going to do instead of trying to spray chemicals we're just going to work the field with the plow instead so that's what we're going to be doing now we're going to go ahead and get the plow out the disc out it's probably buried behind some equipment hadn't been used for a couple years so we need to grease it up and then we'll get out here and we'll start disking this field up and by the end of the day this should be a nice plowed field and should be not all nice and nice loose dirt and everything is all you see when we're done [Music] so uh so we got the disc all hooked up now and greased up i think it's ready to go the hoses on the front up there there's a couple bad hoses on here and they are leaking fluid when you have the disc raised up in the air so we're gonna go ahead and use it today the way that it is we'll just have to go ahead and buy a couple new hoses and put on there before we run it next time so this is an old international harvester disc it is a 12 foot wide disc and it has some chisel harrow on the back here um and that's basically like a like a drag harrow on the back i guess you could call it that and that is to help smooth out everything after it discs it up i think we're ready to go so let's go ahead head out back out to the hayfield we'll start plowing up all that grass and corn stalks [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so i've got the new field all disked up now and i did like an overlap as i was disking it so um i basically did a six foot overlap so one side of the disc was actually disking or plowing a second time as the other side was plowing for the first time so as i slowly worked across the field it basically got disked twice so this is basically been double plowed and i'm pretty happy with the way i think this turned out for the first time i know you can still see the grass and everything laying on top and you can see all that green but i think here in a couple days a lot of this is going to brown up it's going to end up dying off because it just doesn't have anything good that the roots are connected to and a lot of it's just chopped up so much that it isn't going to live so here we'll we'll uh let's get a little bit closer and show you how it really looks close up so as we look down here most of this dirt is all just clods of dirt now it's all broken up you see there's part of a corn cob there's a lot of corn stalks they're all chopped up most of this grass is just sitting here on top pulled out of the dirt see some of it still got a little bit of dirt uh clods on it see there's some that's got some dirt quads left on it here's a here's a bigger one but these clods will end up drying out and these plants will die because they won't have enough moisture with that just sitting on top like that most of these are not going to be able to come back from this and they'll end up dying so i'll go ahead and address a few comments that people will probably say so one of them is going to be i should have went ahead and sprayed it it would it would have been a lot less work and they're right if i would have sprayed this i probably wouldn't have to plow it as many times i probably wouldn't burn as much diesel fuel it would take less time for sure but that's just the decision i made i decided to try to use less chemicals on our property and we'll have to just see how this all turns out i'm gonna i will have to disc it you know several times to make sure that any of the seeds that are still left in the soil have time to germinate and start to grow so that i can diss them up again so um it will take a few times of doing this to get it to to work and we'll see how it turns out at the end but i think i'm going to have pretty good luck with it i also know somebody's going to say i probably should have mowed the field first before i dissed it but i didn't feel like the grass was so tall that it was going to strain the disc or the tractor too much and i was going to i knew i was going to plow this so many times that that it would all eventually just get chopped up as i disc it so i'd opted not to to try to mow the field down beforehand and i think i think as many times as i'm going to plow it's going to be just fine and you can see from the way this looks um it seemed to disc pretty good even though the grass was probably oh it was probably you know a foot to two foot tall in a lot of places so i think plowing that that field was actually a pretty good test for the tractor um you know that in my mind that just had to be probably one of the more difficult things to plow because it hasn't been plowed up in over a year and then it basically was filled with grass so it had like a sod that you were trying to break up plus this is clay soil so i think that was a pretty good test for the tractor um it's got a little speed chart in there on the side and it tells you like what speeds you should do for different tasks and for plowing it said for medium range gear 2 to medium range gear 4 and i ended up doing i started out actually in low and i kind of worked my way up but i ended up doing 80 percent of the field in in medium range uh gear three and uh it seemed to do pretty good and uh i think i'm pretty happy with the way everything performed today so that disc ended up coming with our property when we purchased it so the way the purchase agreement read was basically anything left on this property after a certain date was ours to keep or ours to deal with and the majority of that ended up just being junk that was left here that needed hauled off to the junkyard but uh this was left on the property and it was still good everything was fine it's still in the same condition i haven't done anything to it as the way it was left here and this disc has really worked out well for me but uh you know there's a couple of things that do need fixed of course the hydraulic hoses which i mentioned earlier and the discs on it there's several that are broken i just went back there and accounted them there's a total of seven discs that need replace six of those are on the back two axles and you'll basically have to separate those axles pull the shafts out i think to be able to put new discs in there so that'll be a pretty big job probably something better tackled um after this hayfield's planted but uh yeah that is the disc that came with the property it's worked out fairly well um but i don't think it plowed as well as it should have if it had all good discs on there so i'm gonna let the field sit now for like a week then i'm gonna come back and disc it again so when i come back most of this grass that's green today hopefully it it's all brown next week uh they'll probably still be a few pieces of green that survived that's still sticking up and then you know we'll diss that up again and then hopefully the next time when i come back there's no green right hopefully we killed it off by then but i will continue to disc this uh this the field uh probably every week for the next month and then after that we'll start really prepping it for the hay field we're gonna have to fertilize it and then we have to get our our seed planted so shooting for like mid august somewhere in there to plant our seed that way by the time it germinates it'll be like the beginning of september and then we're off to those cool months for the grass to grow and hopefully not compete with the warm season weeds that might sprout up but that's the plan for our new hay field back here but that's it for today guys so thanks for watching i'll see you in the next one [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Country View Acres

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Keywords: Homestead, farm, farmstead, hobby farm, self sufficient, homesteading, rural life, country life, farm life, TYM T654, TYM Tractor, tractor, TYM, T654, International Harvester, disc, disc harrow, plow, till, field, weeds, grass, hay

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Length: 17min 57sec (1077 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 11 2021