anyone use a tiller like this?

I don't have to many other options though right now. I was really hopping someone would have atleast another idea they could add. I like the ground hog but no clue when I would have the time to install a normal hitch to my quad. I don't know of any farmers close enough that could help and I do not own a tractor. I thought about buying a roto tiller but 10 acres would have me dead before I get one pass through done. I know people use 4wheelers all the time for foodplots so I figured there would be someone who could point me in the right direction. The ground is really wet there in the spring and it was tiller about 6 years ago, so maybe this thing wouldn't have such a hard time?

 

So, you have 10 acres of land or 10 acres you want to till under? If you're talking about turning over and working 10 acres, you're not doing it with any ATV equipment on the market. It would take you at least 10 full days to work it like you need to with an ATV and if you're worried about $$$, you'll go through a ton of gas.....even in an ATV. Not to mention lime, fertilizer and seed will cost a lot of money to plant that 10 acres.

With that said, are you sure you actually have 10 acres to work with? You really don't need a single 10 acre food plot. A couple 1/4 to 1/2 acre plots in the right spots will go a long ways.

 

It's 8-10 acres, and I will have it all planted with different foods for different times of the year. It's perfectly set in the center of my 120 acre property with good cover only 100 yards a way and a spring fed 1/2 acre pond. I have some monster bucks running around, especially for PA. It's time I step up and do the work. I have a good bit of money set up for this and know seed and lime will drain it fast lol. That's why I have around a $1000 equipment allowance. I don't see why somethin can't be figured out.

 

It can. But, the most likely answer is to do a couple or few smaller plots.

 

You'd do well to plant some native grasses on 4 acres of it and then split 3 crops between the remaining 6.

Seed doesn't have to kill ya.

2 acres of oats @ 3 bushel per acre at 8 bucks a bushell = 48 dollars

2 acres of purple top turnips = 125.00 could be found cheaper, this price was for biologic

2 acres of Antler KIng Red Zone (two kinds of beans, sunflower, peas, buckwheat) you can make your own mix cheaper, but 4 bags of this will run you 160.00

pulverized lime is like 20 bucks a ton I have no idea what your ph is, but 3 ton's plenty for now.

fertilize with basic triple 13 or 15 on the red zone and oats and then urea on the tnips.

Planted at the right time, and with some mind for prep and you'll have attraction all season.

 

Thanks alot Ben!!! Yeah thats not to far off of what I was planning. Hey you are not from to far from me. I am up in Bradford County. Do you have a place you went to to get a soil test of have somewhere you can suggest to send to?