Deep southern Illinois | Trint - 2/1/2022 05:58
You would be better off going to a ripper at those depths. Neighbor had a set to go that deep with a sunflower chisel, think they had different shank assemblies to switch out, don't think they used it much. But that was years ago before inline rippers became common. Parabolic shanks on a ripper is what you are after.
I have a 2500 inline ripper, but in my soils the shanks are too far apart, and it doesn’t want to fracture the whole soil profile. Leads to a very unevenly settled field and not as mellow as the chisel. I have used a chisel with 2” spikes before and had really good success, and I may go back to those, but looking to do as much fracturing as I can pull. |