Our current tillage practices can result in many of our hillside farms ending up being cloddy in the spring........say, about 3inches x 3 inches......+  - .  (Going to be this way for 2-3 years until we can address and eliminate the soil "nature" issue.)

I realize that if one could wait until the ground was bone dry that the clods would be minimized--------won't happen.  Not enough time between rainfalls during spring here, historically speaking.  Cannot wait for entire field to dry perfectly when 90% is fit.

A regular 7.5 inch disk will often create those clods------spacing just too wide, and so will a field cultivator.  A rigid or flex tine harrow just passes over the top when we use that to try and eliminate them.

I need a machine which will "grind" the soil no deeper than 2 inches.............make a soft bed so weeds have a harder time to germinate, and at same time kill any small growing weeds by NOT leaving any lumps of dirt for continued growth.

No deeper than 2 inches, since we plant corn 2.5.

We used a "rotovator" this spring for these areas, with extremely favorable results--------------but those are just toooooo slow.  (12-15ft at 4mph)

Would you guess that using this machine as first pass machine that the smaller, more aggressively-angled disks would grind the soil enough to get more uniform texture??

Is the angle of the blades relatively easy to change------- ie the amount of aggressiveness-------so that one could set angle to more appropriately fit the field conditions?

Thanks.

Additional comments

The more I read about the implement, the more interesting it appears to be.

Seems to be really just a traditional disk which has enough additional but smaller blades that it can be set at more of an angle, and therefore each blade takes a smaller "ribbon" of soil to till.  Appears the spacing is still 5-7 inches????

The weight to hold it in the ground appears to come from the size of the chain??

Does the flexibility of the chain allow it to function better, or would it allow it to leave humps in places where there is more soil?

Again, thanks.