Thoughts on this subsoiler

You asked, so here is my opinion. It is a high-priced tinkertoy for the uninformed. There are a lot better options to do what you want to do. Save your money and buy a real subsoiler. Mike
 
King kutter also makes one that is yellow ,It's cheaper than the orange one ,but much heaver built . I have one and it works fantastic!
 

Thanks for the replies y'all. What is a better option? It doesn't have to be a combo unit either. How about the subsoiler tsc sells in the county line brand?
 
The one I have is not a combo unit . Mine is called the middle buster MB. Where as the one you were looking at was 46 lbs , this one weighs 80 lbs and is more of an implement you would use with a small compact sized tractor (cat 1 )It would work great with your ford also. I use mine with a John Deere 855 and it works wonderful
 
I have one just like the one you have pictured. I bought it from TSC to dig and open rows for potatoes. I pull it behind a 16 hp Yanmar. It does a good job for laying off rows and opening potato rows. I don't think my Yanmar will pull the subsoiler attachment and I wouldn't dare hook it to my Oliver 550 because the implement is too light and not braced.
 
its hard to tell from the picture,

but I can tell you this, I have a TO35 Ferguson tractor, the sub soiler goes deeper in the ground than the trencher.
when I have my sub soiler mounted to my tractor, in the raised position, the point just barely clears the ground. You need this extra depth or length of the shank to go deep as a sub soiler should. as it has a sheer bolt,

the ditcher does not need to go quiet as deep.

I would be afraid if your tractor is not very low to the ground, you will not be happy with the length of the short sub soiler shaft, short shank will just not let the sub soiler go deep enough in the ground.

make some measurements of single units before you buy, just to be sure of the length of the shanks. also the subsoiler, since it goes deeper should have a sheer bolt.
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It might depend on what part of the country your in cause up here in the north even with the longer subsoiler it won't
be deep enough for water lines in the winter.
That said I would go with a real subsoiler, attach a bend if pipe to the back of and with a roll of pipe you can lay it
the same time you are running the subsoiler.
My dearborn subsoiler is pretty long but when it's in the raise position it fold up a little to keep it of the ground.

Kirk
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It states in the ad its a 'Modified' Cat 1 this is for large garden tractors that used to have Cat 0 hitches and very small compacts,not for a regular farm tractor.Go to CL and look for a real sub soiler they can usually be had for up to $100.
 
60 ys ago dad had a farm (300 acres) with water piped under ground to all fields. Always had 2000 head of hogs in
temporary pasture. We ran underground plastic to each water site making a trench with an old walking plow. Alway moved hogs to permenat water sites for winter and pulled up plastics before freezing weather.
 

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