Sub soiler on front links

[tr250]

I’m thinking of making a twin leg Subsoiler to go on the front linkage of the drilling tractor with low distance legs to go in front of the wheels idea being that we can put it down when on a rutted tramline or in the gateway etc then the tractor wheels will level it down again but water won’t sit in tramline over winter. Anyone tried it how will steering be will it give the tractor a lot of grief? It’s a 200hp tractor on a Weaving 4m mounted gd. So need a few weights anyway so Subsoiler will be used as weight for 95% of the time

 

[Muddyroads]

I had the mounts modified on the Shakaerator this year to fit the front linkage. It worked well but needs some kind of depth control. The biggest problem is that it steers the tractor unless absolutely perfectly square.

 

[tr250]

I had the mounts modified on the Shakaerator this year to fit the front linkage. It worked well but needs some kind of depth control. The biggest problem is that it steers the tractor unless absolutely perfectly square.
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I was thinking of 2 depth wheels. Would svivel legs like the flatlift help steering

 

[Muddyroads]

I used wheels where the roll wasn’t wanted. The problem is the legs will steer you if they aren’t perfectly square to your direction of travel, rather than the wheels or roll. 1 of my brackets is a fraction out (you don’t notice when pulling it).

 

[Wombat]

Something like this?

Mantis - Agriweld Ltd

Make drilling a one-pass system with this front mounted low disturbance toolbar. 460mm serrated straight cutting disc Max working depth 300mm Pivoting leg sockets c/w 5 degrees of pivot each way, allow for steering in work 500mm Leg spacings Available in 3m, 4m and 6m widths 400mm Wide...

agriweld.co.uk

 

[ollie989898]

I should think you will want one of those French/Euro style subsoilers with everything on one bar to minimise the hang on the front?

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[Alistair Nelson]

Something like this?

Mantis - Agriweld Ltd

Make drilling a one-pass system with this front mounted low disturbance toolbar. 460mm serrated straight cutting disc Max working depth 300mm Pivoting leg sockets c/w 5 degrees of pivot each way, allow for steering in work 500mm Leg spacings Available in 3m, 4m and 6m widths 400mm Wide...

agriweld.co.uk

I store a bit of gear for Agriweld as they are up the road and help with developing prototypes etc on our farm. So have played with the mantis from day one. The mantis is obviously designed as a full width shallow low disturbance subsoiler / loosener. Look on there website facebook page you’ll see various videos pictures etc to give you an idea and then give them a ring and talk to Dean he’ll tell you all about from there. But it works best with mounted machines. The front wheels control depth / stop it digging in and the tractor trying to climb over the top of it. To give the tractor a chance to steer the wheels and tines are all on pivots and finally the design of the headstock again has to be quite clever again to stop the tractor trying to climb over the top of it particularly tractors with suspended front axles.

hope some of that helps

cheers

Alistair.

 

[tr250]

I store a bit of gear for Agriweld as they are up the road and help with developing prototypes etc on our farm. So have played with the mantis from day one. The mantis is obviously designed as a full width shallow low disturbance subsoiler / loosener. Look on there website facebook page you’ll see various videos pictures etc to give you an idea and then give them a ring and talk to Dean he’ll tell you all about from there. But it works best with mounted machines. The front wheels control depth / stop it digging in and the tractor trying to climb over the top of it. To give the tractor a chance to steer the wheels and tines are all on pivots and finally the design of the headstock again has to be quite clever again to stop the tractor trying to climb over the top of it particularly tractors with suspended front axles.

hope some of that helps

cheers

Alistair.

Yes that’s very useful thankyou. I hadn’t even considered the tractor climbing over it so I guess the lower links need to be horizontal when in work to push straight

 

[mo!]

Yes that’s very useful thankyou. I hadn’t even considered the tractor climbing over it so I guess the lower links need to be horizontal when in work to push straight

Or slightly up so that weight is transferred to the front of the tractor.

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Yes as Mo says slightly up to put the slightest bit of weight onto the tractor and make sure the lower links are parallel with the top link that also helps

 

[ih1455xl]

I’ve got loads of spare Michel legs and brackets if you want to make something