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What size roller?

I want to roll my plot to firm up the seed bed before planting. I used my tractor to plow and disc a new spot last weekend. A cultipacker is pretty expensive plus worried my tractor would just chew up the loose soil too much.Tractor Supply has a 24"x48" steel roller that weighs 920# with water. They also have a poly one 18"×48" that weighs 550# with water. Wish they were 5' wide but not.

I'm leaning towards the lighter poly one because my land is hilly and I will be using my UTV to roll my plot.I don't want the roller to be too heavy for the UTV to pull through the loose soil and up hill.What do you think? I have never pulled a roller before. Not sure how hard it is to pull.

Thanks, Bill

4 comments

4 Comments

bkrett

Apr 18, 2017

I have a kubota l4600 with ag, weighted tires. I dont like to drive it around on the wet or lose soil to prevent compaction. After I disk my soil I use my garden tractor to pull my cultpacker (roller) I have a 4ft poly roller filled with sand and water. Works really well. It does take one hell of a long time with it only being 4ft and bumpy as all hell with the soccer sized rocks which I just roll right over as long as tractor has clearance. Its my time to zone out and roll with it. Works just fine, even in tight places my tractor wont fit.

http://store.bestoutdoors.com/packer-maxx-cultipackers/packer-maxx-clp-4

One nice thing is I can pull its a bit myself to roll it out of the way when not in use or to attach. I have other attachemnts that weight 1000+ lbs and its a real pain to move them once detached.

Mitchell Vincent

Apr 12, 2017

Good luck!

bfisherman11

Apr 12, 2017

I have a LS G3033H tractor. It could haul the roller no problem. It just weighs about 3300lbs so rough on a seed bed. I bought a 48in roller. My utv is a Polaris 300. I think it will work.

Thanks

Mitchell Vincent

Apr 12, 2017

I'm not sure what UTV you have but I know my Kubota 900 has no trouble pulling trailers with wood up and down our place (which looks a lot like ours!), I've guessed 800-900 pounds sometimes. If you know someone with a tractor that can do it for you I'd go that route, or start by filling the roller only half way. My cultipacker weighs a ton (almost literally), so it's tractor-pull only.