2-Year Review of DIY Food Plot Roller

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After 2 years of use on my food plots, I'll describe how my DIY Food Plot Roller is holding up and how I've been using it.
Video of how I built this roller:
• Food Plot Cultipacker ...
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• Spread Tiny Food Plot ...
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@justadbeer Жыл бұрын

I watched both of your videos. nice job. Glad you did a follow up. The ribs are really important to have for a cultipacker. I made a steel roller many years ago from a large 15" steel casing and have recently turned it into a crimper simply by drilling and tapping in order to bolt on four lengths of angle iron, and then making a cultipacker from single wall corrugated plastic pipe. I strapped it to a post in the ground to keep it upright and straight while pouring the cement.

@UncleBucks Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I mostly agree. The single walled one I built certainly continues to lay out nice lines with the rings not being compressed.

@TheGoatShowMan 6 ай бұрын

Outside of Mount Vernon, that's as pretty a piece of land as I've seen. Congrats to ya!

@UncleBucks 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm very fortunate and thankful to have it, work it and hunt it!

@reckonill Жыл бұрын

Great video...had a similar idea to make a crimper but using a steel culvert so I can weld angle iron to it...If I get around to it, I'll share it out

@UncleBucks Жыл бұрын

Thanks! If you've got a chunk of steel culvert to use, go for it!

@charliebecker2216 Жыл бұрын

U can use pvc pipe as a scarification bearing and for noise.

@hughphillips67Mustang 2 жыл бұрын

Can you possibly slip a larger black plastic field drain tile of this if the ribs get to bent out of shape? Great idea.!!

@UncleBucks 2 жыл бұрын

Possibly... I am thinking that eventually the ribs will completely flatten or break off all together but it will still do the job as a heavy roller. Just won't leave any grooves in the ground anymore.

@deanr4847 2 жыл бұрын

You produce great videos!!! Why didn’t you use a steel culvert, too expensive? it’ll rust but last forever. One more question, how did you keep the single walled plastic culvert straight when adding concrete?

@UncleBucks 2 жыл бұрын

If I had a 5' piece of steel culvert available, I definitely would have used it instead of the plastic one. For the single walled build, I had to constrct a frame using three 2x4's vertically, spaced out equally, against the culvert, screwed together with a plywood base and top. If you look close at the single wall photos, I built two roller pieces half the length (2 -1/2' v.s. 5') , which was helpful because they were shorter to fill and half the weight to move around when building it. It turns nicer with two roller halves v.s. one long roller also. I should have made a video, but I didn't. Some of the metal components were custom fabbed, so it was less of a DIY.

@1rustytree 2 жыл бұрын

Looks good ! Should last a long time!

@flcutters23 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting the update!! We're going to be building one of these for the coming planting season! I have on question for you though...how does it do in reverse? Is it easy to control or does it easily jackknife? Thanks in advance!

@UncleBucks Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Chris. I don't recall having trouble backing this up, but I've only had to back up short distances. Didn't seem to be any issues pulling on and backing it off of my car hauler trailer - using my wheeler. I grew up on a small farm though, so I've had decades of practice backing things up.

@flcutters23 Жыл бұрын

@@UncleBucks Hey thanks for the speedy reply! The reason I ask is because we're going to build this to be pulled with a Kubota UTV and we also use the same machine to pull our discs...wince the disc isn't on wheels, it does not reverse well at all and will not change directions. I was just concerned about this thing having a mind of its own in reverse as well. Thanks again!

@UncleBucks Жыл бұрын

Sure thing! Just a thought.... you might get just a bit more control going backwards if you build it with a ball hitch v.s. a pin hitch. Takes out any play that a pin might have while moving around in the drawbar hole.

@flcutters23 Жыл бұрын

@@UncleBucks That's exactly what we were thinking of doing! Also...are the culverts flat underneath the first layer? Or is it double ribbed?

@UncleBucks Жыл бұрын

@Chris romano the rings are completely hollow and the inside is smooth: " dual-walled" is what it is called. It's almost as if they started with a round tube, then they added the outer rings to it.

@rbljackson 11 ай бұрын

do you happen to have a build video on the single wall style? IM on the lookout for some culvert pipe to make one of these on the cheap. How did you keep the pipe straight on the single wall? I noticed you built it in two smaller sections in the still pics. was it to keep everything straight? I really want to have one of these for the 2024 season!

@UncleBucks 11 ай бұрын

I sure wish I had made a video of that one, it's much better! - but I didn't. I used plywood disks on the ends but also had three evenly spaced 2x4s standing on edge against the outside of the pipe, screwed to the disks on each end.

@rbljackson 11 ай бұрын

@@UncleBucks that makes sense. DId spliting it into two smaller sections make it a little easier around the turns?

@UncleBucks 11 ай бұрын

@rbljackson Definitely. Easier to move around by hand as well.

@TheDuckofDoom. Жыл бұрын

My main problem with seed on top was birds eating it.

@UncleBucks Жыл бұрын

There is a power/dust you can purchase to coat the seeds with, which deters birds from eating them. I use it on corn and it helps keep the sandhill cranes from plucking it all out, but the corn is planted.