Removing top soil -will this work

[sh40]

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.

 

[Muddyroads]

If it’s what he wants to do and you’re happy to do it, then why not? Will certainly loosen up the soil.

 

[S J H]

Yes a chap I knew did his farm track like it, i think he just shovelled the loose out with a front end loader.

 

[davidroberts30]

It will work fine

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I was told ploughing the topsoil allows you to roll it up like a carpet

 

[LMPom]

Something we've done before we had a digger. If ground conditions are good works pretty well

 

[davidroberts30]

I was told ploughing the topsoil allows you to roll it up like a carpet

Gotta Be shallow to roll turf

 

[serf]

Yes know of someone does this regular to get top soil off for bases on farm

 

[Hfd Cattle]

It will work fine but surely a man and a JCB would be quicker and tidier. It will give his tractor and loader a lot of stick .

 

[Lincsman]

Planning permission for a mobile home?

 

[Fraserb]

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]

It works well.

 

[chickens and wheat]

all weather farming refined

 

[Tubbylew]

@del_boy

 

[Still Farming]

It works well. View attachment 954131

Indoor ploughing event!

 

[del_boy]

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]

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