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Phillips County Arkansas | Hello Group,
I am going to plant my first rice crop next spring. I have a regular bladed levee plow. I saw the Scott Levee Splitter on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ju_SLfRI4
Does anyone use this thing? What do you think of the result?
Thanks,
Todd
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Southeast MO | Yes I've used one in the past. They work good considering the conditions I used it in. Nothing is ever perfect in rice. Depending on what shape your levees are in when you get ready to split them, you may have to run it shallow the first time to knock the top off and them come back another time to finish knocking the rest down. I think Nammco (sp.?) makes a splitter of a different design that has two big disc blades on it that splits the levees. Never used one of those myself, but I've seen fields where they were used and that looks like it does a good job too. You can probably google them and look at them. |
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| Ive got one thats similar. Depending on your soil type, it may leave alot of big clumps of mud and dirt as opposed to using a standard reversed levee plow. Main positive is low maintenance, i e no bearings. We used ours the first year and found out it still neeed a pass with the levee plow to chop up the bug clumps so we went back to the usual 2 passes with the plow. BUT, your results may be different. Our soils are good mixed dirt, not gumboish (is that a word??) at all.
Tom
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NE Arkansas SE Missouri | We have a Nammco. It will run in any conditions and go through residue. |
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NE Arkansas SE Missouri | It looks ok but you would need a track tractor to run on our soils. |
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Crawfordsville, Arkansas | Baker or Nammco would be my choice. Our Baker will split any levee if you can get climbed up on it. Residue and straw doesn't slow it down any. They work well wet or dry. |
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The Delta | I saw the video and it would work better wet I think? A naamco digs too bad and will leave a ditch, a reversed 8 blade plow and a day of adjustment is the best ive found yet. Once you set it, never adjust it just buy another plow. |
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Wheatley, Arkansas | The Scott works great if conditions, (not too wet, not too dry, and running a chopper on the combine) are right. After a year or so the point will round off and it will be difficult to keep the plow evenly engaged in the levee. If you run a spreader only machine the Scott splitter isn't so good unless you burn your stubble or wait until spring to split out your levees.
We have a Scott splitter as well as a Allen ( http://allenmfgco.com/products.html ) but still seem to tear most levees down with a reversed Athens or Rhino levee disk. |
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Phillips County Arkansas | Thanks for all the comments! |
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Scott Levee Splitter for rice farmers
