Stone Buriers - Any Good?

weedkiller

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We tried that on the veg farm I used to work on, we grew a lot of spring salad onions and it didn’t work straight after the stone burier, it was too patchy when the emerged.
 

Theswede

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We tried that on the veg farm I used to work on, we grew a lot of spring salad onions and it didn’t work straight after the stone burier, it was too patchy when the emerged.

You think it would work better with ordinary yellow onions? I dont know anything about spring salad but I know that our yellow onions can handle alot more than our red onions. Why do you think it was a patchy emergence?

Would it have made any difference with a shallow cultivation after the stone burier? From what I can see on Youtube I tend to think the seedbed is too soft too high up... If that is the problem a run with the Carrier might make it better?
 

weedkiller

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I think the salad onions liked it a bit firmer on top, the land was stony so as a trial we did about 1/2 ha in the middle of a 12ha field and the rest with the jones triple bed that we modified - I could tell when spraying them it wasn’t right as the tram line was too soft
 

Theswede

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I think the salad onions liked it a bit firmer on top, the land was stony so as a trial we did about 1/2 ha in the middle of a 12ha field and the rest with the jones triple bed that we modified - I could tell when spraying them it wasn’t right as the tram line was too soft

What kind of soil was that on?

Would it have helped to run the stoneburier in the autumn and let the seedbed firm up over the winter?
 

weedkiller

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It was a sandstone brash with big slabs at 14inches deep, we couldn’t go in earlier as the land was in spuds till late and there was a lot of mess to sort out over the winter ,! Normally if the beds came up naff we would hit them couple of times with the bedformer or rip it back up with a sklondslide . Iv used stone beaters tho at an other job and needed 150 hp on a 2.5meter machine and that was sorting out a rough field with lots of stones and rubbish .
 

Theswede

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A George Moate Tillerstar wood be good for onions View attachment 592956

I have read quite a bit about the Tillerstar and if it can handle my amount of stones it would be a great machine for me! Does anybody know how much stones it can handle?

I will upload a picture of the field that I will grow onions on next year. It has already been destoned once with a Kongskilde Stonebear but it still has alot of stones.

Pictures came in next reply...
 
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Theswede

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