Removing top soil -will this work

sh40

Member
A neighbour's daughter is moving back home and is going to put in a mobile home to live in for a few years. The neighbour is a small suckler farmer where I suspect income would be low.

Anyway he saw that I had the plough on and he wants be to plough up a small square of land for this mobile to go into. Once ploughed he reckons it will be loose enough to remove the topsoil then with the bucket of his loader. He only has a handy tractor and loader. It's a Massey 290 2wd. Topsoil would be shallow enough.

Is this a waste of time. I find it hard to refuse him as he is fierce handy to have to move cattle. He's of the older generation where hiring out a mini digger for a day would be a no go and he would rather the hardship.
 

Fraserb

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Location
Scottish Borders
We've done it plenty times, set plough to just skim the subsoil, you get a nice edge aswell, weve even been known to do it with the plough and then load with the 360, fairly speeds up the job.
 

Nearly

Member
Location
North of York
It works well.
indoor ploughing side (1).JPG
 

del_boy

Member
Location
Herefordshire
I done a new drive for our house by ploughing two runs into each other, left a lovely straight cut on the outside with the rear disc, then scooped it all out with manitou and bucket, worked well and was quick and easy
 

del_boy

Member
Location
Herefordshire
I done a new drive for our house by ploughing two runs into each other, left a lovely straight cut on the outside with the rear disc, then scooped it all out with manitou and bucket, worked well and was quick and easy
 

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