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southern MN | Bruce emphasized several times that the Dawn unit was not running at a good time of the year to be very useful. The knife units too - they made hard lumps in this type of soil conditions.
He also mentioned several times that he just got the bar put together that week & did not set up the units very well to run level, etc. As the day appeared to me, it was not set up to really 'demo' anything, other than hey - this is strip tillage & here's a couple different brands doing it.
That was cool to see. At a time I could come to see it - typical fall or spring here we don't have time to look at things 'in season', we scramble to get our stuff done.
I still have the mother of all test fields - pure shale sand hill, to several deep black valleys, with yellow clay hillsides in between. Oh - and rocks. Did I mention rocks before?
The sidehill would challenge side-drifting as well.
This is on each round, not different rounds. I just put about 4000 feet of tile into that 15 acres last week. I had the 82 year old tile guy scratching his head on how to lay out a pattern to catch the 3 wet areas.
Now - this field is a bear to deal with conventionally, so it's not like a strip till unit could do perfect. :) But it sure could test 'variable' field conditions!
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Thanks Gerywolf & all
