Disc Harrow vs Tiller on Plowed Field With Hydrostatic Compact Tractor

How to use a disc harrow and tiller on plowed ground. Kubota L3901 L3902 E186

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[peppylapeeeU]

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!!🙂

[stanleyconrad]

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.

[southronjr]

A tip my grandfather taught me about keeping weeds down which he learned from his father was to start cultivating early and disk or till the soil about every 2 weeks for at least 6 weeks. It will put you a little behind in planting but by letting the weed seed germinate and then killing them, it keeps them from coming back at all. It's not fool proof but the fuel to run the tractor is cheaper than the chemicals and you don't have to worry about the fuel ending up in your well and killing you, at least not any more than everyone else.

[frederickormsby]

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

[nevada]

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.

[arturocuevas]

love your video, following from Puerto Rico, this year I am retiring as a engineer to enjoy my 7 acres flat land, I am learning with you...

[wildbillc]

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.

[brianhay]

This is the perfect level of detail and excellent pacing

[manleyg]

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

[montyrayza]

This is what you call a YouTube farmer handing out someone else's knowledge as though it were his own through experience. I grew up farming so I know the difference. Nice people either way.

[MorrowidAddic]

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

[nohillforahighstepper]

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.

[tcmits]

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

[cecilchristopher]

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.

[richardowens]

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!

[edwardmitchell]

If you are mostly doing garden beds vs large field work, I highly recommend the spader….the tines drive vertically vs rotary and can achieve the work of both the plow and the tiller…it incorporates organic matter deep in the soil profile and breaks up the hard pan. It also preserves the soil structure better and doesn’t invert it like a rotary tiller will. I farm in Georgia with heavy clay soil, and over the years Ive increased my soil depth from about 4” to 18” with a spader.

[lynwoodreed]

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.

[Jetty-ge]

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!

[StumpkillerCP]

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.