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I've farmed for 40yrs and still do it the way my father taught me and how his father taught him. Never used a tiller as they are hard on the tractor especially if you run up on something solid. Discing has always worked just fine. Burning the garden in the winter and discing that in helps add to the soil. It's important to plow and disc in the winter so the leftover plants and needs have time to decompose. The trick to discing is to do it when it's very dry. If the soil has any significant amount of water in it you'll create dirt clods of which will turn hard as pottery when they bake in the sun. Once they're baked hard it's very difficult to get them back sifted dirt, if you disc it enough you can turn them into marbles but that's still not ideal. So picking a time when it's been weeks without rain is ideal as discing will give you a better result without the initial purchase expense or risk of pto damage that a tiller can cause. Now if money isn't a concern and you know the area you're preparing is free of things that can bind a tiller then by all means till your heart out. I would enjoy having one and since our garden areas are over a hundred years old, I would have the danger of binding it. But as an example my kubota that we've had since 85' with only a water pump change, has become a permanent 3pt forklift tractor because of a low side pto gear becoming damaged while bushogging. The repair involves splitting the tractor and the parts are Rolls-Royce high, so it will spend it's remaining days without pto use. For the OP of this video, I'd contact a company in Poland and get you a delete kit for that smog junk. Those things are why used tractor prices have gone up. I have a 76'IH, and a 82'Kubota, that I use mostly with only a few hundred dollars in repairs over the years taking care of 80 acres, and a 2009 Kubota 30hp cab compact tractor I use to mow and garden with. Old tractors are a great thing to have around to do things you don't want to risk doing in a modern tractor that you paid a small fortune for. Keep pushing those diesels and wearing granny beads!!🙂

I’m an armchair farmer, whatever that is. I stumbled onto your channel and truly enjoyed it. You are very informative for us wannabes. At 76 I don’t have a lot of time to learn by trial and error. Thanks for some information that may be obvious to some, but I found it informative. I suppose I’m more of a tractor collector than “farming”, small acreage but way too many tractors. Fun stuff and it seems to keep me active.

Disc 1st, till 2nd. You showed me exactly what i needed to see.

I enjoy you programs. I own a small farm in South Carolina. The soil is a mix of brown top soil and blue clay. I use a harrow to break up the soil. I have owned tractors for 20 plus years. Fords and Massey's all gear ...I bought a 40 hp Compact spring of 2022 with the hydrostatic drive....the tractor was nice but it is not suited for ground work....your Kubota is noisy at wide open throttle. The hydrostatic compact tractors have better uses than ground work. I sold the Massey 2023 and bought a Mahindra eight speed gear drive. Not promoting mahindra. Promoting gear drive over hydrostatic for farm ground work.

Thanks for all the effort you put in to sharing your knowledge and setting up all the camera angles!

Really clear and helpful explanations of the the process of using a disk. I've always just used a rototiller so I learned a lot. Thanks!

We always go 3 passes with the disc. 1st pass is the same direction as what we will sow seed. 2nd pass is diagonal. 3rd pass is 90 degrees of the 1st pass. That way we get some leveling and there are no lines in the field to confuse the line left by the drill marker.

I use IH 6' drag behind disc harrow with a 6' wide industrial chain link gate chained to rear of disc. Beautiful results😊

Great content and info. Love this channel and the work being done!

I really like this video, Very informative. You can speak clearly and explain everything with detail.

This is a wonderful video! The information comes at you fast, but it's fascinating and captivating. Loved the comparison of the soil from the different disks. Thanks much!

Wow, you cover everything, nice, thanks.

Great comparison! That is a well prepped field.

Roundup ready ? 😢

I have a 45 hp New Holland Boomer. When it is doing its regen cycle, I can do any kind of tractor work at the same time. No loss in output power. I just need to leave the engine running at higher rpms for some tasks than I usually use. The manual recommends not working in tall grass as the exhaust system gets very hot during the regen. I suggest you check your manual. Your tractor might be different but diesel engine emissions dont change by tractor brand.

I have a small farm in the Georgia Coastal plain and for soils I have a mixture of sand and sand 😂. I have been plant food plots in the fall and cover crops in the spring. I use my harrow to prepare them I haven't tried my tiller on any of the food plots but I think I will this fall.

Rotytillers work better when you're dealing with slopes, especially spader types that push the tractor forward. My favorite rototiller was an "on-land" 4 wheel that had two free turn narrow wheels in front and two broad floaters on the back and two rotors with its own engine. Custom but if you've got a small tractor then getting a trailed implement lifter and installing a powerpack on it can make a huge difference when doing rototilling spreading etc.

Rewatched! Your videos are always interesting and informational! Thanks for sharing, great content!

That's good stuff. Keep the video's coming

Thank you for sharing your work

I agree that can be frustrating but my regen cycles only seem to be about 10 minutes in length. Usually I can find a bit more tractor work to do for this time so Im still doing some productive work. " I cant stop working with the tractor because its doing a regen cycle" gives me more seat time, when I should be doing something else, that doesnt need a tractor. I tried the parked regen process once, leaving the tractor running through lunch. It worked, and shut down itself when the cycle was over., but it seemed wasteful of fuel to me. I talked to a farmer about it and he said its great when you are cutting tall grass hay and cant cut during regen. You can leave the tractor parked out of the uncut hay, and it will run while you can go do something else. His slightly older tractor required him to sit on the tractor and babysit its entire regen cycle, wasting his time and fuel.

The farm fields where I live are just disc tilled, and then planted. Seems to work just fine for them....most people roto-till a garden, and I was told that you should plow occasionally to prevent having hardpan, but I'm not sure where that would make much sense as you can only plow so deep as well...I guess you would just have hardpan deeper in the ground from plowing VS roto-tilling. I have the reverse rotation tiller for my tractor, it really breaks up the dirt clods and leaves a very nice finished surface. The nice thing with the reverse rotation is it will generally pull itself down into the ground where the forward rotation tills will tend to skip across hard packed ground.

In the 17 years we've lived on our current property (Upstate NY) I have never raised dust when tilling. Usually I am waiting for the soil to dry out enough that I do not sink and bog down. (And lose my gumboots when tilling with a Troy Built Horse). Glacial sill and clay. No vertical drainage. But I've been looking at discs for deer feed plots and maybe corn in a portion of our former sheep pasture.

Be good to your little tractor, raise the disk get to speed then lower it. Old farmer George.

Great video. I wish I was a farmer.

I have used both but on a larger scale.I used a 15ft double offset harrow with notched blades on the front gangs and smooth blades on the rear,both set at 9 inches.This works very well at breaking ground and busting the clouds into a smooth planting surface.I have also used a roto tiller for finishing but find it to slow.I actually prefer to finish with a culti mulcher,but I understand that you are working with compact tractors,and such equipment is not suitable.

Not a Farmer , but this video was informative and enjoyable to watch...

Well done

Best bet is probobly using the disc to break up the big clods and then use the roto tiller for final tillage for a smooth seedbed

I remember riding the foot plate of his Farmall H when he harrowed his fields. He harrowed three times before planting. The dirt would be like silk in your hand.

Cultipacker after the disc is the cats pajamas. Looks great btw!

Great video

Awsome thx

I've used both disc harrows and rotary tillers and prefer tiller for a smooth seedbed. All of my tractors are older models. No regen or DPF fluid.

I purchased the pro King Kutter, setting on the floor, I noticed when level the tines are only 1-1/2” below the skids on the ends. That’s with the skids all the way up. I don’t know how you can till 6” or 7” deep like they say.

Amazing!

Are you sure the top hole for the top link is for heavier pulling ground equipment? I was taught the opposite, the bottom hole is for the heavier pulling ground equipment.

A rototiller does a great job but the main disadvantage is what happens after a rain if you get the soil too fine and smooth. The harrowed field will be just fine after a rain but the rototillered field will be like concrete and the plants have trouble breaking through the hard crust. The rototiller will be OK if you only make one pass and don't go too slow.

i always used notched discs greasing them was always my job cause i was youngest .

Multiple passes with a harrow, will do just as well as a tiller even in heavy clay.

Put a drag pipe behind the disc it will help.

Since my biggest crop is rocks, I prefer the disc.

God bless PG

Once you switch to a tiller you will never go back. Does a 1000% better job.

Maybe not in Florida but in NC the County Ag people have no till grain drill they let you use and charge you by the acre. I understand they are not expensive to use per acre

In today's episode, THREE different ways to kill your soil biota, dramatically increase erosion, and ensure a complete crop failure if you have just a couple weeks of drought. Seriously, you don't need to do any of these things to plant and grow a wildlife food plot. Tens of thousands of people are using a no-till approach that costs less, takes less time, and most importanly, doesn't destroy your soil just before asking it to grow something for you.

✳️Tiller🖐️Hands Down🖐️.!!!🤔✳️

tip with a disc.. if its clumpy you can hit it again

Just chisel plow it, then roto till, gotta disk the soybeans or corn in if you don't have a row seeder, we plant radish and lettuce in the late summer,deer love it

This man forgot to forget any information lol.

Pro. Gmo ?

Why do it on already plowed field

With the tiller you don't have to plow

Mind blowing you think spraying round up on food you digest is a good idea

Grab the spoke of the steering wheel at the hub center and your lines will be straighter.

Check with the county farm agent. Some of them have smaller no till drills that you can rent very reasonably To mix better with just the disk you cross cut.

you don't want to use roundup. My brother in law and his dad both died from cancer from using this poison.

Looks like 2 or 3 acres not 1

So what your saying out loud is that you plan on drenching your crop field with round up, the same field you plan to grow food for human consumption in? That just sounds so wrong to me.

I am laughing at this ever thought about putting a 4 inch steel pipe behind the disk?

browse resistant.... lol people been mowing soybeans to double their yield for decades.....

Lol roundup ready? Ya go away bud.

Damn, dry as a bone

Go herbicide free, no need for that crap on small farms.

I wouldn’t strongly recommend never planting anything that has been hybridized to withstand roundup. 😔😢

You are out in the sun. Why do you have your hat on backwards?

Way too my talking, more action less talking!

You talk too much and do too little, or are you just really happy to hear yourself talk

So you plan on growing a food crop like watermelons in a field where you are going to spray poison. Yummy....NOT