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<blockquote data-quote="chester" data-source="post: 8496446" data-attributes="member: 911"><p>Thanks for your reply. I know the soil looks light but there is enough clay in it to produce a packing sample that we will store to June. If you look closely at the power Harrow tines in the second video you will see they are not going that fast. We tested the field with a penetrometer and found no compaction or pan so felt there was no need for any deeper loosening. If there was a need we could either fit loosening tines in front of the p/h or subsoil as a separate operation. Why a p/h over a bedtiller? If you dig away the loose soil and compare the pan left by the two machines the p/h one seems less smeared. Yes you right about the high rate of wear on the p/h tines, but would bedtiller blades not wear at a similar rate if they were working into unworked stubble? We have had a set of p/h tines coated with diamond dust and they seem to be lasting, but have not done a big enough area yet to tell. The cost of the high wear rate is much less than two or three passes with some sort of tines cultivator. Why do people seem not to use bedtillers straight into stubble as I believe some can be? Leaving the stubble untouched until just before you want to separate it means it is very weather safe either from not drying out too much or from be coming a mush if it rains. The system is incredible simple and easy to manage as you can just send the two machines off together to get the field ready for planting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chester, post: 8496446, member: 911"] Thanks for your reply. I know the soil looks light but there is enough clay in it to produce a packing sample that we will store to June. If you look closely at the power Harrow tines in the second video you will see they are not going that fast. We tested the field with a penetrometer and found no compaction or pan so felt there was no need for any deeper loosening. If there was a need we could either fit loosening tines in front of the p/h or subsoil as a separate operation. Why a p/h over a bedtiller? If you dig away the loose soil and compare the pan left by the two machines the p/h one seems less smeared. Yes you right about the high rate of wear on the p/h tines, but would bedtiller blades not wear at a similar rate if they were working into unworked stubble? We have had a set of p/h tines coated with diamond dust and they seem to be lasting, but have not done a big enough area yet to tell. The cost of the high wear rate is much less than two or three passes with some sort of tines cultivator. Why do people seem not to use bedtillers straight into stubble as I believe some can be? Leaving the stubble untouched until just before you want to separate it means it is very weather safe either from not drying out too much or from be coming a mush if it rains. The system is incredible simple and easy to manage as you can just send the two machines off together to get the field ready for planting. [/QUOTE]
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