I have always thought the quick acting lime was a scam. They sell 30lb bags for $15 or sell a 50lb bag of ag lime for $3 or $7 can't remember but either way it half as much for twice the price. Plus the ag is so fine it's gonna react faster. Best I have heard is the palletizing include little specs of gold based on sale price. Ha. To be fair without the right tools ag lime is impossible to spread. Crazy thing is last year I got a couple tons of bulk dolomite lime for something like $ 60 a ton.

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.

Im using one packer maxx with my garden tractor. I filed it with half sand and water to fill hole. Works very well. I do all my plots with it. Only complaint is that since it is corrugated you get rows segregated with seed that grow next to rows of dirt that dont grow. I would think a fully flat roller would give continuous pressure and no rows but then again if there is a rock or uneven soil may created low spots with no seed. Never used not sure. I did a 1 acre new lawn with it and a hand crank seeded. (Seed from John Obrion btw) and it was so good I had neighbors shocked about how good it came out. The best thing is get ag tires for your garden tractor. Something like: https://www.zoro.com/hi-run-lawngarden-tire-13x50-6-2-ply-wd1053/i/G7138503/?gclid=CI7GjfD55dICFd63wAodmyQHXw It transforms the garden tractor. With turf tires i couldn't even ride my tractor on wet grass. With ag tires I can plow 8 inches of snow with a garden tractor snow plow. I use my garden tractor 3X as much as my 46hp kubota with the ag tires. Oh and I operate a farm btw.

Yes and no. I bought the same thing in 8 ft length. Two 4 foot sections which can connect and disconnect. I use one four foot section for my garden tractor on one side to scrape then flip to smooth side to cover seed. Then roll. Nice thing is with the two four foot sections connected. I have first Serve scrape and connected to second section smooth saves one extra drag. I did the 8 foot section in spring when weather was cool but in August it started to overheat the garden tractor transmission. The 46hp Kubota never a problem with full length. I just try and baby my soil and keep heavy equipment off it as much as possible. I explain all the specifics because your considering the 6 foot length. Consider horsepower and second drag may be needed with only one section. I'll post pics if I have some before and after. Right now we're under a foot of snow.

I dont know your specifics about your field but I have rolled fields with literally bowling ball sized rocks and branches three inches thick laying on the ground with a garden tractor. I use a chain drag from tractor supply (wait for the 10% off sales that come) and a water/sand filled 4 ft poly roller (amazon) and have pretty damn good results pulling with a craftsman garden tractor (24 hp) and ag tires on it. If you dont want to use poly roller I would try the tractor supply chain and wait till there is a heavy rain. The tractor supply chain drag has three settings depending on the side you put down and which way it is orientated. The aggresive side scrapes really aggressively (1/2 inch) if soil is slightly damp. Scrape aggressively, spread seed the flip chain to smooth side and let it rain.

Good luck with the small deliveries. I once got my guy to do 10 tons and then when I needed a follow up he never returned my call. I kept calling and ever offered and extra $300 just for delivery cost on top of regular costs. Still no way. I call three places and even checked with local ag extension. No one want small deliveries and Im guessing small is less then 10 tons. I feel for you. What I did was use a cone spreader with agitator and mix dolitimic lime (which was grnaular) 2 bags with every one bag of high cal ag lime. You cant use straight ag lime in a cone spreader as it packs up the cone and wont spread. Now my soil test is too high in magnesium but after two consecutive years of finding no one i had no choice. But hey, my ph went from 5.1 to 6.3 after 4 years later.

Depending on your weather you might be able to get away with frost seeding if the area is clear of most debris. For myself, I sort of did little till/no-till planting on my area I cleared this past fall, an abandoned apple orchard. I started with my grapple on my 46hp kubota tractor and basically pushed all the underbrush, deadfalls and the hated multi flora rose out of the way to create an opening. Had to fell three trees too to open up the area to some sun. It was ridiculously rocky and had all kinds of crap laying around (sticks, multi flora rose root balls, barberry root balls, rocks etc) I used my garden mower spreader bumping and hopping everywhere and getting high centered a few times, and added lime and fertilizer, the I took my chain drag with my garden mower and dragged the chain all around the place to scarify the soil. I took my cultipacker roller and pulled it around too with my garden mower. I used my garden mower as much as possible because I was trying to be soft on the newly exposed soil and not compact the soil and roots where the apple trees were. I was really impressed how the inner sanctum grew in the area. I had mostly rape and some oats come up. No clover but it was only a fall seeding and limed only two months earlier(sil test showed a ph of 5.0). The deer totally hammered the area and it became a deer highway. I actually had to take out a few deer because I stared seeing more then I expected on my property and didn't want them to hammer my apple trees and rest of the property too much. I am always impressed how when mother nature has some of her soil exposed she always makes something grow to cover her scars. Dont stress it, mother nature always finds a way. Just help her with a little seed to grow what you want.

Dont know where your plots are but here in New England I tested a new cleared wood area and the ph was 5.0. Even with fast acting lime spread at the same time as the seed I didn't have any clover grow (lot cleared in summer and seed spread in September). Soil test highly recommended. Maybe something quicker and easy to grow while amendments work through soil