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Re: O.T. Soil Compaction


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Posted by Leroy on October 05, 2018 at 06:50:40 from (66.118.123.39):

In Reply to: O.T. Soil Compaction posted by moonlite37 on October 03, 2018 at 18:53:14:

You had just worked it so there are air pockets in the loose soil so all you are doing is getting rid of the air pockets. The biggest compaction problems coles from using a chisel plow or deep ripper type of implement when ground is wet and it just mashes its way through instead of fracturing the soil. Just take a handfull and see if you can make a ball out of it. If dry you cannot make that ball and when you let go of it the sample will just fall apart. Now take that same sample and put some water in and try it and you will see how compaction is made. Kids years ago made their marbles out os soil just by mixing in enough water to keep it in a ball that can be made like modeling clay that a lot of kids played with years ago before electronichs came about. Just try making that marble and see how hard it will be to bust it when it has goten real dry. A different test for you to understand compaction. take a metal baking pan and put the dry worked up soil in and press till you cannot anymore and see if it holds togeter, dry it will not and no compaction, now add some water and see hoe it will hold together, when it starts holding together is when compaction starts and the more moisture the harder the compaction will be. Then put in a freezer till completly froze then take out and let thaw out and refreze and repete a few times and you will see that the the contants of pan that were hard as a rock when you put in freezor will now be crumbly. after drying out at room temp. You cannot compact completely dry soil, it has to have moisture to make the glue to hold soil particals together. All on dry soil that you are doing is getting away from the air pockets between soil particals.


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