West Chazy, New York | We routinely rip about 22 to 24 inches deep. The tool of preference here is an R and R machine. It will go a little deeper than that if you take out the stops, but power requirements go way up any deeper than that. We figure about 80 horsepower per shank. Dole uses a Komatsu crawler about the size of a D8 with a single ripper shank on the back. They go a full 24 to 26, and it takes a long time to get a field done.
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