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I sore this rare paraplow in a dealers yard not long agoParaplow. The thinking mans subsoiler. Quick blast with ph to knock the tops off and straight in with unidrill.
I'd never seen a five leg one before.
I sore this rare paraplow in a dealers yard not long agoParaplow. The thinking mans subsoiler. Quick blast with ph to knock the tops off and straight in with unidrill.
Educate me please, what’s so special about the Paraplough?Paraplow. The thinking mans subsoiler. Quick blast with ph to knock the tops off and straight in with unidrill.
cuts more like a knife ,low disturbance compared to an normal arable subsioler,saw them used as a final touch over perm. grassland that had been drained with the farm development grants in the late seventies.Educate me please, what’s so special about the Paraplough?
Why that over the standard Subsoiler?
@Selectamatic , the paraplow leaves a more level surface and creates more micro cracking at the surface. You can adjust the lift and shatter as well. Best spring barley we ever had was on land paraplowed after beet and sheep grazing the tops. then Blast over with PH to level then straight in with unidrill. Massive crop. The problem with a lot of “min till” stuff is you can create a 4” layer of sludge on top of concrete. The paraplow leaves a considerable amount of natural structure intact and doesn’t pulverise the surface. It’s a hell of lot better than a Ransomes 2 leg and having to split your wheelings leaving big peaks and troughs. Best used in the autumn when it’s softening on top and dry underneath, though I have used it in the spring with some success. No good when it’s like concrete though. Will pull the lugs off the tyres and kill a grass ley due to root pruning.Educate me please, what’s so special about the Paraplough?
Why that over the standard Subsoiler?
Without a doubt we would end up with some impermeable clay basins and ponds without occasional subsoiling to reopen the porous fill over the drains. Those areas were ponds before the land was farmed. Solid blue clay.Ah, the treadmill. Subsoil the pan caused by cultivation, drive over the recently subsoiled field in a wet autumn, jam it down, plough to remove compaction but it’s wet again, plough pan is now the issue.
Spring subsoiling not really advisable except sometimes on our beet land we subsoil trafficked hard sand to stop the water running towards wet clay ponded areas. I don’t think the sand ever really smears but can get packed hard on top with trailers etc.I've never had land dry enough to put anything that deep in spring.
I was being cheeky. But I have experienced the treadmill effect that can be created by working soilWithout a doubt we would end up with some impermeable clay basins and ponds without occasional subsoiling to reopen the porous fill over the drains. Those areas were ponds before the land was farmed. Solid blue clay.
The Para Plow can work at anything from about 8 to 22” depending on what’s required.
Too right. They are quite a depth here. I also think of the work it must have been to get the ditches dug out deep enough for the outfalls with little mechanisation. We are sometimes criticised for cleaning out ditches too deep but it’s no deeper than they were originally dug out 300 years ago. This is why I can’t understand the reluctance for cleaning out watercourses. It’s just normal maintenance work to get the silt just below the outfalls. Let it bung the outfalls and you will have major problems.we have been doing a bit of drainage, and water pipe burying, it is amazing what you can learn from a trench, we have a good 8/10 inches of nice dark brown soil, and good downward 'cracks' below that, but the 'old' drains, were horseshoe, on a clay slate, 5 foot down, right at where the soil changed to clay, and as up on the top, little soil movement, those drains would have been early 1800's. glad it wasn't me that had to put them in, by hand.