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Big crawler be bestWould be ok if I had a big enough tractor about the place.
Big crawler be bestWould be ok if I had a big enough tractor about the place.
I thought about hitching one up to the 14t digger,seen it done using a cable from the undercarriage to the dipper.Big crawler be best
Would be ok if I had a big enough tractor about the place.
ha ha i would need 1000 hp crawler to use that on my land,
Half my land would be the same,running a normal single leg mole plough full depth 1st would surely help,or possibly a vibration unit.ha ha i would need 1000 hp crawler to use that on my land,
plus it would then just bend and smash it!
my dad famously used a howard para plough in one field got about 10m and every shear bolt snapped, he then put in high tensile bolts and bent a leg...
im very lucky that alot of the land here is drained, old stone drains, horse shoe clays, std clays upto modern perforated generally i just repair failed areas.
depending on what your land quite specifically is like would depend on what will work, i imagine the best solution if you could pull a single leg plough would be to modify it to take as above even 60mm perforated drainage to the ditches, even smaller would work.
as for pulling could easily attach 2 tractors in tandem.
If you have drains with stone above you’ll be fine ( if you know where they are ). If you have land that isn’t drained you’ll make it work, if you have land with un mapped drains you’re stuffed.So….. question from someone who has come of chalk down land that never really needed draining. We are now living in central France with some very different ground to what I have been used to. During the winter the ground quickly water logs and takes a long time to dry in the spring. The farm is rented and the landlord highly unlikely to pay for drainage. I am not I clin3d to pay for it either. I have no experience of mole ploughing but was wondering if it would provide a low cost solution to my problem? I know it would need redoing every few years but on a rotational basis that is ok. My question is does it work? I keep reading on here that it is for going over the top of proper drains, does it work as a stand alone solution on a temporary basis and if so how temporary is temporary?
I totally agree, however, the future Mrs Britton is being a little sensitive about capital expenditure seeing as we are trying to buy a farm currently . If you happen to know the whereabouts of a tidy fully functioning suitable machine and could perhaps get Pete to nip it down to central France on his day off then I may be able to persuade her to a modest out lay. Hypothetically what would one be looking at financially for such a machine, just so that I can start the buttering up process gentlyBig crawler be best
I will have you know that she is not yet a suitable tractor substitute . We could muster around 400hp with the 3 tractors but they are all a bit vintage and I would be nervous of wrecking something or someone.2 tractors and the wife?
Have a look on fenland tractors websiteI totally agree, however, the future Mrs Britton is being a little sensitive about capital expenditure seeing as we are trying to buy a farm currently . If you happen to know the whereabouts of a tidy fully functioning suitable machine and could perhaps get Pete to nip it down to central France on his day off then I may be able to persuade her to a modest out lay. Hypothetically what would one be looking at financially for such a machine, just so that I can start the buttering up process gently
If its at all heavy, and sounds like it is put stone in, you cannot add it later, even if it means only half the number of runs for the same cost. To cheapen it you can go at 40M spacing and come back in a few years and put another run between them.Is there anypoint draining clay without back fill , how do moles work then ? Not saying that is clay mind , I dig and crush my own stone and have my own digger , just have to buy pipe , s
The mole plough isn’t the hard bit, it’s the tile plough that I think we would struggle with.To make things harder; a mole plough should only be pulled up hill.
To make things harder; a mole plough should only be pulled up hill.
You have to start in the ditch at the bottom of the hill.How come?
You have to start in the ditch at the bottom of the hill.
That defiantly changes the perspective, i would not be doing anything if you hope to buy soon what's the point.I totally agree, however, the future Mrs Britton is being a little sensitive about capital expenditure seeing as we are trying to buy a farm currently . If you happen to know the whereabouts of a tidy fully functioning suitable machine and could perhaps get Pete to nip it down to central France on his day off then I may be able to persuade her to a modest out lay. Hypothetically what would one be looking at financially for such a machine, just so that I can start the buttering up process gently
We are keeping this place too hopefully so just trying to make things more productive.That defiantly changes the perspective, i would not be doing anything if you hope to buy soon what's the point.