There was an older post talking about land planes. 

When you search the net, it seems they’re all located down south. Nobody must ever want level fields up in north east.

Iv picked up new to us fields and they’re terrible uneven. Lots of old dead furrows. I worked some up and seeded winter rye. My cultipacker didn’t do vary good. I thought of getting a field cultivator but think even that won’t do it good enough. In the end going to seed them for hay ground. And want smooth. 

Anyone use land planes in fields like this. 

It got left with the pot holes for 2 years and pastured.  Could not drive a ATV across it without falling in so holes. Ran a chisel plow about 12 inches deep 3 directions which helped a lot. Then 2 passes with cultivator and harrows. You could then drive across with a pickup and not beat it to death.

The land plane was used in furrow irrigated land. Low places would pond and kill off crop as well as take extra water to get water to the far end of furrows wet. But took real horse power to, part of why tracked tractors where so common for heavy tillage in the west. But water being a limiting factor, get water efference was worth higher cost to level.

A cultivator will not make it level to the degree a land plane would. But will round off the big dips and ridges.  You need it worked close to a foot deep to have loose soil to move with a cultivator, for the kind of leveling you want. From another discussion here just days ago the older models that don't have as much trash clearance (cheaper today) are going to move dirt a bit faster.

In the steeper county in the mountains I farm in with lots of rock, the heavy 9 inch or wider spaced disc has been the primary tillage tool. Always prone to some ridging, generally used going round and round in a field. So I generally do field cultivating at a angle to the discing and back and forth to do away with any ridging. So to have as much benefit as possible from cultivating in you case at least 3 different angles would be good.

But not knowing your soil and rain patterns maybe making more loose soil is a recipe to create more ditches.   

Is your field 10 acres or 100 ? I can see this being an expensive operation if a large field.

On a very small scale, I used my 3furrow plow to cut the tops off the 'hills', let set for 2 days(dry up a bit...),then used the rear blade to lay the material into the 'valley'. I did this 2-3 times to even up the hills and valleys, then ran discs with trailing big Ibeam, N-S, E-W a few times. Overall it got pretty level.  It might work though to get the worst ones this year ?

Yes I agree on rotating crop before seeding hay. I’ll try field cultivator after disk and before cultipacker.

The ibeam probably does what some land planes do.

The one farm is maybe 20 acres but not in one piece.

 Other is 13 and I worked half into winter rye.

Thanks again