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| Jus reading with my safetly glasses on, waiting for the sparks.:-)
But if it were me here in my soil type, I'd be doing the majority of my heavy finish work before I plowed. Then coulters, and coverboards, etc. are'nt so critical and the plow will pull easier. Not to mention the time it will buy you after plowing before the boulders setup in the sun. Takes a while to plow an acre. If you have a second tractor, with a roller, plow a few hours, then roll it down, plow a few hours, roll it down, etc. Or have someone run the roller. But if you rip it up ahead of the plow, it seems to buy some time, especially in the spring when the sun gets pretty powerfull pretty quick. The other thing tilling ahead of the plow does is eliminate so many air pockets. This will save a lot of moisture. Just my opinion.
Here's a pic of plowing out some strawberry ground in the fall. It was so heavily compacted from the berry tractors etc., I ripped and disked, then rolled ahead of the plow. Still, look at the boulders.:-( If I had'nt done that, I'd never be able to run a wheeled tractor over the boulders. You can see the soil really laid out nice even taking into consideration the large size of the clods.
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