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ECIL | I did something like that once with a pull type IH #10 chisel. I only had 7 shanks on it instead of the original 10 shanks and there were quite a few places I pulled up chunks up to a foot and a half in diameter. It was real tight clay loam soil. The following spring it was hard to work down, and the soil profile was pretty much messed up so the roots had a hard time coping with the changes in density and consequently had a hard time finding the fertilizer contained in those larger chunks. The crop didn't do well. It's one thing to shatter the ground, another thing to turn it into a pile of concrete blocks. I don't know how well a ripper will do nowadays but that lesson has stuck with me. I don't want to turn the field into a mass of blocks. | |
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Ripping in the drought
