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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1476185" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>Before I could get a price I would need to get somebody to do it. Years ago sprigs and spriggers were about 50 miles from here and weren't interested. </p><p></p><p>For any do-it-yourselfers reading this: I bought the Coastal sprigs from them (wet and muddy in bales, like square baled hay) in February, dug a trench with a moldboard plow and spent a couple of days just making a big mess....out of my clothes. I had a wagon hooked to the tractor and would drive and get out and sprig, etc, etc. I'd take 2 or 3 flakes and separate out the plants, go back and move along and repeat the process. Once I finished a bale, I'd blade the furrow back over the sprigs and drive down it with a tractor tire. </p><p></p><p>I'm a STO (Small Time Operator) so I'd have to piggy back with a BTO that could attract a sprigger (from 75-100 miles away....nearest at the time....Sulphur Springs area) and leave me the middlins on their way back home which I thought about trying many years ago. Tifton 85 was the grass and I forget the cost. $40 an acre comes to mind but don't quote me and I decided it wasn't worth the cost for me in my operation.</p><p></p><p>Best I can do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1476185, member: 27848"] Before I could get a price I would need to get somebody to do it. Years ago sprigs and spriggers were about 50 miles from here and weren't interested. For any do-it-yourselfers reading this: I bought the Coastal sprigs from them (wet and muddy in bales, like square baled hay) in February, dug a trench with a moldboard plow and spent a couple of days just making a big mess....out of my clothes. I had a wagon hooked to the tractor and would drive and get out and sprig, etc, etc. I'd take 2 or 3 flakes and separate out the plants, go back and move along and repeat the process. Once I finished a bale, I'd blade the furrow back over the sprigs and drive down it with a tractor tire. I'm a STO (Small Time Operator) so I'd have to piggy back with a BTO that could attract a sprigger (from 75-100 miles away....nearest at the time....Sulphur Springs area) and leave me the middlins on their way back home which I thought about trying many years ago. Tifton 85 was the grass and I forget the cost. $40 an acre comes to mind but don't quote me and I decided it wasn't worth the cost for me in my operation. Best I can do. [/QUOTE]
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