Using a chipper to scatter seed?

**roltide** · 07-30-2019, 07:13 AM

Is it still legal to use a wood chipper to scatter sunflower seeds onto a plowed strip in a field? If so anyone have success with this?

**buckpro** · 07-30-2019, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by roltide

Is it still legal to use a wood chipper to scatter sunflower seeds onto a plowed strip in a field? If so anyone have success with this?

Legal as long as its from the same field and not placed in any container, has to go straight to the chipper.

**fro** · 07-30-2019, 07:23 AM

Are the said sunflowers grown on the field?

**Palmetto Bug** · 07-30-2019, 07:30 AM

I've done it with cob corn and it makes grits. I wanted it a bit more coarsely ground. The birds found it and liked it but it doesn't last as long as whole kernel.

One of my buddies is in a dove club that has hardware cloth tables in the field on which they throw the sunflower heads if they fall down. The seeds fall out naturally and the birds feed under the tables.

**Baggy** · 07-30-2019, 07:35 AM

Roll tigers.

**FEETDOWN** · 07-30-2019, 07:52 AM

*Roll

**DJP** · 07-30-2019, 07:59 AM

I remember once when I was a kid, we took the dove field corn stalks and fed them into the bush hog blade nut access hole it would spread the corn pretty good.

**Model12** · 07-31-2019, 01:00 PM

I use a chipper along side my corn. On clean, harrowed and raked soil. I don't (grind) sunflowers they fall on the ground on their own.

**Bownut** · 07-31-2019, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by Model12

I use a chipper along side my corn. On clean, harrowed and raked soil. I don't (grind) sunflowers they fall on the ground on their own.

How do you pull it and chip it on clean harrowed and raked soil if it's still standing when you pull it?

**Model12** · 07-31-2019, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by Bownut

How do you pull it and chip it on clean harrowed and raked soil if it's still standing when you pull it?

The chipper sit on the tailgate of the truck. We pick the ears and feed them into the chipper as the truck moves alongside the corn. In my fieldd, 12 acres. I plant corn/sunflowers/prozo and brown top millet. I leave 20 feet wide strips between each planting that I keep clean by harrowing. I rake it smooth by the corn to allow the corn from the chipper to lay on smooth dirt. Also 10-1 I broadcast wheat on these strips. The standing corn stalks makes a good hiding area to hide when shooting.

**2thDoc** · 08-01-2019, 06:37 AM

Originally Posted by Model12

I use a chipper along side my corn. On clean, harrowed and raked soil. I don't (grind) sunflowers they fall on the ground on their own.

welcome to the site
shocked no one was Model 12 before you....
and I agree with your assessment above.

**Bownut** · 08-01-2019, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Model12

The chipper sit on the tailgate of the truck. We pick the ears and feed them into the chipper as the truck moves alongside the corn. In my fieldd, 12 acres. I plant corn/sunflowers/prozo and brown top millet. I leave 20 feet wide strips between each planting that I keep clean by harrowing. I rake it smooth by the corn to allow the corn from the chipper to lay on smooth dirt. Also 10-1 I broadcast wheat on these strips. The standing corn stalks makes a good hiding area to hide when shooting.

10-4, I was trying to picture how this was done in a corn field (not laid out in strips and such). I was going to wish you best of luck in the upcoming season, but a field like that is not luck, it's a lot of work. Looks good.

**Gut_Pile** · 08-01-2019, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Model12

I use a chipper along side my corn. On clean, harrowed and raked soil. I don't (grind) sunflowers they fall on the ground on their own.

Welcome, consider me your first friend here.

When are we shooting, buddy?

**Model12** · 08-01-2019, 03:37 PM

More radom pics. I have 6 members that pay the $$$$. I furnish land and labor. This field is in front of my house........Monitor from the porch.

**ecu1984** · 08-01-2019, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Model12

More radom pics. I have 6 members that pay the $$$$. I furnish land and labor. This field is in front of my house........Monitor from the porch.

Very nice!

**Gregory** · 08-02-2019, 04:13 PM

Is chipping seed a bonafide agricultural practice?

**Highstrung** · 08-02-2019, 04:25 PM

I've typically just disced up next to each strip we plan on cutting, two to three a week during the late seasons.. Then drop the bushhog as low as I can get it without kicking up dirt and creep over the corn.