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How Do I Avoid the Wet Winter Slump?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7596524" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>The drains are pretty good by and large but the water just can’t seem to get to them quickly enough. They are minimum 28” deep with what looks like about 9” of steelworks slag porous fill on them. I’ve opened them downstream of a ponded area and they are only trickling and clear. Subsoiling carefully across the drains to go through the slag does help locally in the heavy areas but fine line between hitting the drain or not hitting the slag. . We have too much sand in the same fields to run a mole to the dykes. That sand can also silt up the drains and slow them down.</p><p>I sometimes wonder whether my old low disturbance Ransomes subsoiler kind of moling across the drains in heavy areas when it’s dry on top , followed by the stubble cultivator (terra disc) might be as good as it gets on my budget and horsepower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7596524, member: 2119"] The drains are pretty good by and large but the water just can’t seem to get to them quickly enough. They are minimum 28” deep with what looks like about 9” of steelworks slag porous fill on them. I’ve opened them downstream of a ponded area and they are only trickling and clear. Subsoiling carefully across the drains to go through the slag does help locally in the heavy areas but fine line between hitting the drain or not hitting the slag. . We have too much sand in the same fields to run a mole to the dykes. That sand can also silt up the drains and slow them down. I sometimes wonder whether my old low disturbance Ransomes subsoiler kind of moling across the drains in heavy areas when it’s dry on top , followed by the stubble cultivator (terra disc) might be as good as it gets on my budget and horsepower. [/QUOTE]
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