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Re: I would defiantly Re: Plow or chisel 7 acres
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Posted by the tractor vet on September 02, 2006 at 09:08:06 from (75.24.11.169):
In Reply to: I would defiantly Re: Plow or chisel 7 acres of h posted by benny2 on September 02, 2006 at 08:36:07:
You may have gotten the humus turned under but you did nothing for the hard pan layer that lyes at the bottom of the plow shear or sole and this is what ya want to break . as you will gain more by breaking the hard pan then just turning the soil over . One must stay up with mordern ways . As the equipment has become bigger and heavier the more compaction . When i was a youngster i can remember the changes in equipment and saw first hand as the years went by how much harder the ground turns . When the 806's came out the man that i worked for and my uncle were the first in this area to have them and they both were bought new with 5x16 semi mount plows and 18 foot disks they would handel them vary well but after a few years the talk around the coffee shops were MAN WAS IT HAD PLOWEN yesterday i was down a whole gear from what that field rolled last year and after a couple more years that fifth bottom was taken of and you were still have trouble pullen 4 bottoms whit the same tractor . Now if you take a deep till thru these fields they will trun a bunch easier for several years and on the dry year if you have corn planted in them it will fair far betterr the your neighbos that has that hard pan layer as a corn root will only go to the hard pan but if that layer is broken then the root can go find some water down deepier.
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