Hogs have really rooted up a lot of my place recently. Probably a couple acres worth of pasture total all rooted and rutted and pitted and lumpy as hell.

I know eventually erosion would more or less level it out but is there any way to sort of speed along the process. It's mostly natural pasture with Bermuda and wild plants and weeds. Shredded down.

I have a small tractor with a box blade and regular blade but the contours of the land and the way those work usually do more harm than good.

Do I feed a rake? A drag? Should I fab a land plane? I don't necessarily want to strip off the vegetation, just need to mostly get the dirt lumps more or less back in the holes.

Shred. Wait for a rain. Disc it until flat. Bucket to fill big holes.

Go in slow gear and best wishes for your equipment.

If you only have a box blade use that. Don't worry about vegetation, it will grow back.

https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=34131

https://www.survivalistboards.com/threads/heres-a-tractor-and-pasture-renovator-for-wild-hog-damage.212830/

A disc with a roller/blade behind it seems to be the ticket.

Drag the heaviest thing your tow vehicle will pull. If you can find/buy a 6-8' length of RR rail.

I use a chisel drag with old truck tires chained to the rear of it. Usually does a good job of filling/smoothing the roots in one pass.

Ask giddings what he does, guy never has hog problems!

I also have a problem with hogs but fortunately I have a six foot 3 point landscape rake tht works well it I can get it done before it rains too much. I used to use a section of wrought iron fence and had a pice of chain link fenc attached behind it . Not quite as fast as the rake but it worked. Tannerite and AR parties would be a lot more fun!! They used to come in tear our back yard up every night. So I put up 3 LED flood lights on an 18" tall stands and shined them into the direction the hogs came from and the hogs have not touched our yard since then. They won't walk into that blinding light.

We use a disc with a heavy drag attached to it. After we disc and drag, we use a pasture roller on it. We have to do this every year coming out of winter.

I have had good luck just dragging a 16 foot cow panel with a few tires on top of it. It's cheap and does a pretty good job.

Link to that rake?

We compost our waste hay from the rings then fill in the holes. Box blade and tilt front loader to smooth but get quick regrowth with the compost.

Aggie Stan....I have an old rhino 100 but if you go on line you can find them at amazon, tractor supply, Northern Tool and others for a lot less than I bought mine for . They even have them to hookup to atv . They really work good.Good Luck

jp95 said:

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I have had good luck just dragging a 16 foot cow panel with a few tires on top of it. It's cheap and does a pretty good job.

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I used to do this a lot back for my grandparents back in the day and it works pretty good.