Evaluating Ripper Performance

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@samrichards670 Жыл бұрын

I had the same experience in the 1980s when I attempted to farm. What I did was build a ripper with 2 tines in a row. The front tine was shorter(½ the length) with the broadest tip on it that was available and the rear tine was long with a narrower tip round about ½ of the front tine. It did seem to achieve the desired result.

@robertpayne2717 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with fracturing soil with a subsoiler is the same as with a conventional moldboard plow. It is moisture you cannot shatter or fracture soil that is too moist or too dry ! If moisture is too high except for the sandiest soil types a mold board plow will just plow out slabs or if too dry will just break out large chunks of deep crust especially in winter wheat fields after harvest believe me I know.

@JamesTyreeII 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is very revealing and important to know for those of us who use the Case IH ecolotiger

@joeyoliver579 Жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't just do a perpendicular... or every other year cultivate in a perpendicular direction. That would eliminate the humps you showed by both methods, which have been cultivated the same way year after year.

@5stardave Жыл бұрын

You need living roots in the soil. Plant some radishes to break up that pan and allow water infiltration.

@erikih706 Жыл бұрын

I don’t have a long enough growing season for radishes or other cover crops. By the time the corn and the soybeans come off the field, most of the time the growing season is over. A lot of times the temps are below freezing. Sometimes snow has already fallen. Tillage is the answer here unfortunately. Would love to do cover crops, but they just don’t work (or have time to work).

@clearskiesranch1362 2 ай бұрын

@@erikih706the cover crop needs to be seeded while the cash crop is still growing.

@hstwodrainage.1410 2 жыл бұрын

Nice soil.

@mbailey12341 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like you should try to work with soil biology instead of trying to disrupt and destroy it with heavy tillage

@jlkkauffman7942 2 жыл бұрын

Yep I can do more with cover crops than he ever could with any kind of steel!

@moogman5 8 ай бұрын

That only works in light sandy soils...His soil is obviously heavy clay...Us clay guys are jealous of your sandy , light guys but with clay comes more natural nutrients from the ancient sea bed

@clearskiesranch1362 2 ай бұрын

@@moogman5Wrong. Cover crops work the same on slimy clay soils and they do on sandy soil. Used cover crops on some of the nastiest slimy clay soils Minnesota has to offer for over 30 years

@moogman5 2 ай бұрын

@@clearskiesranch1362 That's not what I said...I said you have to do heavy tillage in heavy, clay soils...Cover crops and microbes don't do squat to heavy clay. Cover crops will yield fine, and they may add some nitrogen but deep rooted grains have really long roots and the only way to fix heavy clay is to fix it with gypsum/lime (depending on your ph) and heavy tillage (apart from organic matter)...The no till or minimum till approach is financial suicide for heavy soils

@clearskiesranch1362 2 ай бұрын

@@moogman5 and like I said I farmed some of the nastiest heavy clay soils Minnesota has to offer for over 30 years and never once made a tillage pass. Regularly had corn average yields of 220-250 BPA.