Re: Plow or chisel 7 acres of hard no-till

Posted by the tractor vet on September 02, 2006 at 08:53:36 from (75.24.11.169):

In Reply to: Re: Plow or chisel 7 acres of hard no-till posted by Allan In NE on September 02, 2006 at 08:20:26:

Back several years ago a buddy of mine became a block man for DMI and was tryen to interduce the DEEP till into a head strong set in there way area that still today many moldboard plow and from this we have a hard pan layer that is between 8-12 inches down and the hard pan layer is from the bottom of that 8-12 inches on down from 14-24 inches as we did the probe test , well he brings in this 5 shank DMI disk ripper with the tiger points and rents a 3788 as i call them ANT EATER and he brings it up to me to change the hdy ends on the ripper as it had been pulled by a Deere and put them TIGER points on . When i was done with what i had to do we take it to a field just to see what this monster will do check the hard pan depth and set the ripper to go three inches below the hard pan will when the points hit there depth the 3788 just stopped dead in her track and spun , ok back to the drawing board . Take the tractore back up to the shop he runs off to get bags of Cal. and i go and barrow a Cal pump we spent the rest of the day loading all four tires full and these were 20.8 x 38 back to the field now it is locked to the ground now not enought pony power off come the pump cover and the screws get turned out a bunch . Now we have lift off with a big cloud of black smoke away she goes and the end results were outstanding . THis not only lossened up the soil but it helped to dry this field out as now the water had some place to go DOWN. Then we tryed this monster in a old alphala field and guess what she still was not heavy enough on the ft. so we put 5 sets of Do Nuts on the ft. end . I never totaled out the extra weight that we hung on this 3788 but i'll bet that it was real close to 26000 .and as far as pony power here again just by the pyrometer betting close to 250 -275 .

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