Front mounted ripper

[Driller]

Evening all.
anyone know what these are like? And are there any other companies that make similar?
my thought is that I’m looking to do 2 jobs in 1( Rip and powerharrowing) cauli and spring greens ground, july/august. it would be on paddlerolled ploughing and light land.
260hp and I’ve a folding 4.5m powerharrow and would like a ripper on the front links to make use of the tractor. I’m short staffed this summer so would like do it all in one go.( currently kv clc in one pass then powerharrow)
wont be running it too deep as the land will be sumoed in April and ploughed in June.
I know it sounds over cultivated but we’re continuous brassicas on some land so trio,plough and powerharrow to get a good seedbed and trash needs to be buried.
I could also use the machine infront of my trailed drill direct on cereal stubble as I don’t mind not ploughing for cereals.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Would the fact that you then drive your machine over your work rather defeat the whole idea?
SS

 

[Driller]

Would the fact that you then drive your machine over your work rather defeat the whole idea?
SS

Maybe, I’ve thought about running the trio on the ploughing rather than rip/Ph but not sure I’d get the tilth required, our system works well and I’ve good wheel eradicators on ph. In our opinion the rolled ploughing needs ripping to get some air in the soil, and it only then needs 1 pass with the Ph.
We’ve seen strip tilled veg and it really isn’t the way for us.

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Talk to Dean at Agriweld and blame me about there Mantis front mounted low disturbance ripper or an ASL which is a tine bar that slots between the tractor and power harrow. both of these can be fitted with trio points in place of the low disturbance points for a greater level of surface disturbance.

I actually designed the original like the one in the photo the Farm force stubble grubber that then lynx copied and then philip watkins did his version but that was 20 yrs ago and design has moved on as has tine / point technology etc

 

[Davidclayton]

Philip made us a 4m one similar to the one in the pic and it can be one front or rear. Magic tool made very well as all watkins tackle is