I'm in Russia breaking new land with 10 furrow GB wagon plough.
I bought the plough 2nd hand and imported it. It came with mixed Skimmers on.
The soil is high om 4.5 to 6.5% and as it's new land there are some tough conditions from time to time (some woody bushes to to your waist)
The mixed Skimmers gave me major issues blocking ... main due to the really high OM soils, coupled with the bushes equaled nightmare!!
Mixed Skimmers in short vegetation was workable, (locally had been to cut hay for cows over winter, therefore short grass but still high OM soils) you can see in the photos.
To solve the issue of blocking on mixed Skimmers I've bought pasture Skimmers x2 left and right to test, see photo, I was totally surprised by how big they are compared to the mixed Skimmers!!! Unfortunately, it's now winter and ground is frozen so I can not test run :-(
Question - will the pasture Skimmers allow me to plough in the areas with the woody bushes and higher grass / vegetation or small I going to face major blocking issues still?
Note: I did find that if the skimmer point where inline with plough point it would block quicker and the same if I put the Skimmer point to far forward (+1.5 inches) but if I set the Skimmer point slightly forward of the plough point, say 1 inch, this seems to lower the number of blocking occurrences!
I would like to see any photos of other pasture Skimmers in action too, if that's possible
I bought the plough 2nd hand and imported it. It came with mixed Skimmers on.
The soil is high om 4.5 to 6.5% and as it's new land there are some tough conditions from time to time (some woody bushes to to your waist)
The mixed Skimmers gave me major issues blocking ... main due to the really high OM soils, coupled with the bushes equaled nightmare!!
Mixed Skimmers in short vegetation was workable, (locally had been to cut hay for cows over winter, therefore short grass but still high OM soils) you can see in the photos.
To solve the issue of blocking on mixed Skimmers I've bought pasture Skimmers x2 left and right to test, see photo, I was totally surprised by how big they are compared to the mixed Skimmers!!! Unfortunately, it's now winter and ground is frozen so I can not test run :-(
Question - will the pasture Skimmers allow me to plough in the areas with the woody bushes and higher grass / vegetation or small I going to face major blocking issues still?
Note: I did find that if the skimmer point where inline with plough point it would block quicker and the same if I put the Skimmer point to far forward (+1.5 inches) but if I set the Skimmer point slightly forward of the plough point, say 1 inch, this seems to lower the number of blocking occurrences!
I would like to see any photos of other pasture Skimmers in action too, if that's possible