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  1. 09-12-2016, 12:44 PM #1
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    Default Silage Cut or Chipped Sunflower Heads?

    Anyone ever silage cut or chipped sunflowers? Will seed disperse or just be turned to dust? Got plenty knocked down and looking for something in addition to dragging bush hog on ground.
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    I figure a bush hog does a pretty good job...
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    A dove will still eat a knocked over sunflower. Just keep it sprayed and clean
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    A dove will still eat a knocked over sunflower. Just keep it sprayed and clean
    Keeping the sunflowers from germinating is the biggest issue...
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    If they're up I'd never touch one. I feel horribly guilty knocking one over in any field I walk through.

    If down I drop the bushhog as low as it can go, anything else is just too tedious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    If they're up I'd never touch one. I feel horribly guilty knocking one over in any field I walk through.

    If down I drop the bushhog as low as it can go, anything else is just too tedious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DMP View Post
    ^^this^^
    Saw someone marching through them the other day. I just shook my head
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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    If they're up I'd never touch one. I feel horribly guilty knocking one over in any field I walk through.

    If down I drop the bushhog as low as it can go, anything else is just too tedious.
    My number one complaint about my dog in the dove field. I swear that bitch does her best to knock down every sunflower that is between her and the bird. I will say I have been surprised at how good the birds are using the down sunflowers even though there are lots of sprouting seeds out there
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    Quote Originally Posted by loud1 View Post
    Saw someone marching through them the other day. I just shook my head
    My field? Give me a name.
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    I dont know how it was done. For all I know that weird bastard that determined it's gender licked it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by turbo View Post
    I figure a bush hog does a pretty good job...
    Obviously you haven't run a silage cutter or you would know the difference.
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    I dont know how it was done. For all I know that weird bastard that determined it's gender licked it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CUduckreeper View Post
    Obviously you haven't run a silage cutter or you would know the difference.
    Easy, killer.

    I know exactly what a silage cutter is and what it will do.

    My point was: There is no point. It's a galdarn'd sunflower field. A bushog will definitely get the job done.
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