I don't even want to think about planting around 20 acres with an atv

Really? All I do is spray, wait 2-3 weeks and sew my seed. Done. Planted 3 acres in just over an hour and don't have to haul a heavy ass tractor to the club.

Blumsden, do you bush hog or roll the dead grasses and weeds down or just leave it standing.

When you spray grass, after about 3 weeks it will lay over and create a mat. I thought I had screwed up, because I didn't think the seed would reach the ground. I was wrong. I made a pass over it with the spreader, got off and pulled back the thatch and seed was all over the ground. Any that was not will easily make it to the ground with a good rain. I've planted this way for the past 2 years at my club. No bushhog. I don't even drag over it anymore. I got tired of hauling my tractor. It really puts some wear and tear on a truck. Some stiff broadleaf plants will stay standing, but there not that tall and this is a food plot not a golf course.

I live where I plant, so a tractor isn't a problem, but I was think of trying this on a couple of hillside fields. These fields dry out really quick in the fall after rains and wash also. This might be a help for them. Thanks

Goatkiller has some good posts in the thread. I'm not really familiar with Ford tractors of that era, but I planted deer plots for decades with an International H on one place and a Super C on the other. We had a pull type Bush hog and a disc and that was it for a long time. Then my dad found a discplow that operated on a pull rope and we could make deer plots as good as any made with a fancy tractor.

Those old tractors with the big tires would go places my 4x4 Yanmar wouldn't have a chance of getting through. For your situation, I'd get an older 2wd tractor, a disc and a bush hog. Appoint someone in the club to be equipment manager and let him be responsible for it. Make an agreement that if the club ever disbands you will sell it all and divide the money. Good luck!

Have a Ford 4000 for sale in Clarke county for 3000 or best offer. If interested pm me

I know of one for sale, a JD 790 4WD with all that goes with it. Doesn't leak a drop of anything. FEL, heavy 7' disk, 60" box, heavy bushog. 2004 with 300 hours and barn kept. Dang thing like new.

Same tractor I have and it is a fine food plot tractor. Only thing I would be concerned with is a 7' disc. I had a 5' disc with plenty of weight and it was all it wanted, I switched to a 5' tiller and it is perfect

I was thinking same thing. The 790 is a fine little tractor but the lift arm capacity is 900# and a 7' disc seems a bit much. We have a 770 4x4 and it'll handle a 5' heavy disc like a champ.
I have a 6' Prime Brand disc that I pull with the 5210. It weighs 1100# and it's a bear for that 50 hp tractor.

Pulls the disk just fine. Keep it in 4WD.

New tractors have all that electronic bunk and emissions crap. Get an older tractor and you can work on it yourself.

Tiller does take more time but is easy on the tractor and the tractor driver. The thing I like about the tiller is the ground is perfect with one pass.