NE Indiana-Fort Wayne and NE China | See just how much water the ground takes behind the Aerway. You can carry it all in a few soda bottles. I characterize water management behind and aerway as over 40,000 anaerobic holes in your field when it rains. Dry ground all around and anything more than 1/4" of precip and anything on top is gone including the manure. Ask the Raymonds in NY about their fiasco behind an Aerway.
If you want to see the impact of an Aerway "shattertine" dig up the root systems it creates. Matt is exactly right on the sheepsfoot packer description. The roots that form tell you the impact of the steel.
Now by comparison go check out this UT video. Not all steel that enters the ground produces all the uglies, Matt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1HG5G_xSiM
I agree with our strip-tiller friend on whose ground is hard. The only thing harder than no-till is long-term Aerway'd ground. The original investigations by the national tillage lab at Auburn Univ. proved it with instrumentation. The ground got harder at the tip of the tine. The depth of the density change was determined by the amount of concrete and steel you could get on it to drive it into the ground. The machine is a travesty and should be banished from the land.
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Aerway use in notill
