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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 8:54:06 GMT -6
might be interested others maybe not but I am starting this thread to document my progress on this project.
I have 12.5 acres of plain ole pensacola bahia that joins my 20 acres of tifton 85. I have been wanting to replant this field for a couple of years. If things go well the next couple of months I am gonna give it a go.
Soil test and Amendments have been done. Last spring it was burnt and sprayed to eliminate any weeds. cut hay off of it before seed heads matured last year. no fall seeds because of hurricane. Fed cows on it all winter. drug it early to distribute the manure . grazed it hard and short and let it come back about 3" or 4" and sprayed a little over 2qts of Roundup this Sunday will be 2 weeks. Should be ready to disk this weekend. Donor area had 100# N 40# P and 100# K put on it Wednesday 2 weeks ago.
My aunt has a spreader I could have borrowed (everyone knows what happens to borrowed equipment ) but I decided to build my own. Picked up an s-10 rear end and fabbed up most everything last saturday in about 4 hrs . Still have to finish welding the bottom plate on the turn table and build the chute and tongue
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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 8:58:37 GMT -6
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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 10:30:31 GMT -6
This was done on June 8th. I've got a fair stand at the moment and excellent stand of crabgrass and coffee weed. They are starting to run so it's looking promising at the moment.
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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 10:32:09 GMT -6
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Post by highgrit on Jul 2, 2019 10:47:45 GMT -6
Easiest way to eliminate the coffee weed is to pull it out by hand. We've been battling coffee weed, pig weed and dog fennel for years. I started pulling them all up and now we have very few in the pastures.
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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 11:52:43 GMT -6
Easiest way to eliminate the coffee weed is to pull it out by hand. We've been battling coffee weed, pig weed and dog fennel for years. I started pulling them all up and now we have very few in the pastures. Grazon will get rid of them easy. Just can't spray yet. These seed havelayed dormant for at least 12 yrs in this field. |
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Post by greybeard on Jul 2, 2019 12:03:30 GMT -6
Coffee weed is a new one on me. Must be about the only weed I don't have here.
Would the Tif85 eventually crowded out the pensacola bahia or is it the other way around?
I just can't make myself roundup a whole area of good grass, even if it's weedy. As long as it's dry enough for me to get over it, I can control the fennel if I get in early, but on a new broke ground for a different grass I can see why you'd want to do the chemical burndown.
Post some pics of your diy spreader when you get a chance.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 2, 2019 12:15:20 GMT -6
I wanna see when he's finished with it and mounts a chair on the spinner.
I've always heard mowing dog fennel in August is a good way to control them.
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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 12:39:13 GMT -6
Coffee weed is a new one on me. Must be about the only weed I don't have here. Would the Tif85 eventually crowded out the pensacola bahia or is it the other way around? I just can't make myself roundup a whole area of good grass, even if it's weedy. As long as it's dry enough for me to get over it, I can control the fennel if I get in early, but on a new broke ground for a different grass I can see why you'd want to do the chemical burndown. Post some pics of your diy spreader when you get a chance. You can fertilize the Bahia out but that is expensive. Easier to just kill everything . Fwiw the bahaia rhizomes will lay dormant for weeks then resprout I will still have to deal with them but it was easier to turn the dirt and get tops covered this way.  |
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Post by greybeard on Jul 2, 2019 13:25:09 GMT -6
That thing is gonna be spinning pretty damn fast...lots of rpm but not much torque.
Decades ago, my father made a home built mower by turning the input yoke straight down and attaching a 4' cutter blade to it. Pulled it behind an 8n and that sucker sounded like a jet engine when you got to going with it.
It ought to sling sprigs 40' in all directions tho.
(it was a failure, as it was too light and if you ran into thick grass, the blade just stopped and the tires skidded along.)
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Post by greybeard on Jul 2, 2019 13:27:18 GMT -6
I wanna see when he's finished with it and mounts a chair on the spinner. I've always heard mowing dog fennel in August is a good way to control them. Yeah, by August around here they'd be about 5' tall.  |
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Post by M-5 on Jul 2, 2019 13:35:59 GMT -6
I wanna see when he's finished with it and mounts a chair on the spinner. I've always heard mowing dog fennel in August is a good way to control them. Yeah, by August around here they'd be about 5' tall. Mow them when stalks turn purple you will kill about 75% of them |
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 2, 2019 14:09:45 GMT -6
I wanna see when he's finished with it and mounts a chair on the spinner. I've always heard mowing dog fennel in August is a good way to control them. Yeah, by August around here they'd be about 5' tall. Here the same but before they make seed |
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Post by dw on Jul 3, 2019 5:55:30 GMT -6
Looking good! I’m anxious to see how that spreader works, looks like it’ll with good. We have sprigged out of a old pull type manure spreader and don’t decent. We had the timber cut off 27 acres, and put it back in tifton 9 Bahia. It has done well for us.
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Post by M-5 on Jul 3, 2019 6:04:31 GMT -6
Looking good! I’m anxious to see how that spreader works, looks like it’ll with good. We have sprigged out of a old pull type manure spreader and don’t decent. We had the timber cut off 27 acres, and put it back in tifton 9 Bahia. It has done well for us. It just turns with ground speed and slings it out about 8 or 10' wide. Takes 2 people in the wagon to feed it. Before I plant any more I will put a couple pully on it and increase speed to spread wider. If I had a square baler it would work better because you can feed it better from the table. |
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