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rip brown slate with a subsoiler?

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Bill Crowell

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Before I spend the money on a subsoiler implement, I was wondering if any of you is familiar with layered brown slate rock? (It's a layered rock that we have here in the California foothills that can't seem to decide whether it's hard or soft.) Do you think an 8N pulling a subsoiler could break it up? Thanks very much.
 
I would not even attempt it, no seat with a belt or R.O.P.S. on that tractor. Rock especially, that is meant for a crawler or a much bigger tractor if its layered and you can get through it. I'm biased as I have ripped quite a bit of shale, rock and frost with D8K's and 4 BBL (4 hydraulic cylinders). I've got a 3 point subsoiler and a 60 HP tractor with front axle drive and I'd be cautious attempting it with that as well, much rather have a crawler for any kind of rock.

I'm not saying its not possible with an 8N, thin layer and its soft, but with the gearing of one of those (no real low gears) and the fact that you could hook onto something solid and have that front end come up, just not worth the risk. I have lost a cousin to a mishap with an 8N, trust me it happens and very quickly.
 
"I'm having a hard time with the concept of an 8N on a sub soiler."

Ha, ha, OK boys, I get the message: "fergeddaboutit!" (Yes, I do want to live for awhile longer, since so far I have passed all my Darwin tests, so I'd better not start failing them now.)

And yet they do sell 3-pt. hitch subsoilers that could be used with a tractor such as an 8N.
 
That would be for (after) it has been broken up one time. You can keep stiring it up every year to break it up better. Mho
 
Something to add. Go on U-tube and watch some of the videos where they are "plowing" those flood plane fields with those giant plows. Like six or eight feet deep and make one furrow at a time behind a honker of a CAT.
 
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