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WCIL | We farm a lot of bottoms and have 3 different ditchers. Always used an Amco pto ditcher but eventually the dirt thrown created a berm that blocked water. Good ditchers though. Bought a 16 ft Landoll blade to bring the berm back. Use it mainly now for road diches or edges when needed. Built 2 double disk ditchers in the past few years that keep the dirt nearby more like you would do with a shovel. One makes a wider ditch that works better in the gumbo since it is more vee'd and throws it better. The other makes a narrower ditch, easier to cross and works better in lighter dirt, whereas in gumbo the slabs lay back in the ditch. Most of our fields have some slight slope so we don't do any depth changes, but are just cutting a channel for water to run. Same places every year, which eventually makes a shallow channel that the ditcher cleans out a little. Never measured but guess most are 6" deep. If field is flat, doesn't take much. May have to go deeper at the edge if there is a berm. Making a swale in high spots then ditching helps to make it more gentle too.
First pic is a Forrest City similar to one we made (better in gumbo). Other pics is smaller ditcher and job it does. Getting ready to use them both in next few days. Good luck
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Ditching ground to drain does it work?
