What have I done !

[Clive]

I really can’t explain why but after spreading some muck / compost / biosolid on some land going into OSR this month I decided it would be a good idea to subsoil it !

This is a block that has been 10 years no till, it has great structure but now my moment of maddens and misjudgement has left me a unstructured, unlevel, unweather proof mess that I actually think I’ve forgotten how to make into something suitable to drill !

I think a light pass with a carrier and the rolls - the cost and time of which makes me recall what a lot of pointless work cultivation is

Not sure why I’m sharing this - just felt some sort of need to confess :-(

 

[Bob lincs]

Plough then subsoil , press x3 , maybe roll , power harrow, combi drill , roll , jobs a good un .

 

[More to life]

Some irony that the advert below is for a shakerator

 

[Dockers]

Sometimes it just helps as a reminder as to why we no till !!

 

[Phil P]

What @Bob lincs said, will be good as new then

 

[Daniel]

I really can’t explain why but after spreading some muck / compost / biosolid on some land going into OSR this month I decided it would be a good idea to subsoil it !

This is a block that has been 10 years no till, it has great structure but now my moment of maddens and misjudgement has left me a unstructured, unlevel, unweather proof mess that I actually think I’ve forgotten how to make into something suitable to drill !

I think a light pass with a carrier and the rolls - the cost and time of which makes me recall what a lot of pointless work cultivation is

Not sure why I’m sharing this - just felt some sort of need to confess :-(

Blat across it with a Claydon, job done.

 

[Clive]

Sometimes it just helps as a reminder as to why we no till !!

That’s the positive I’m trying to find in this

Honestly don’t know what I was thinking or what I thought I might achieve

 

[Clive]

Blat across it with a Claydon, job done.

I’m not even sure if we can pull the 12m drill we now have on cultivated soil - I also forgot how much lower the power and traction requirements of uncultivated land are

 

[Phil P]

If your getting rain like we are right now you’ll be lucky to pull anything across it this side of September!

 

[Clive]

If your getting rain like we are right now you’ll be lucky to pull anything across it this side of September!

And that’s my worry ! If we had left well alone we could be drilling within hours of the rain stopping such was the structure

What was I thinking !

 

[d williams]

I really can’t explain why but after spreading some muck / compost / biosolid on some land going into OSR this month I decided it would be a good idea to subsoil it !

This is a block that has been 10 years no till, it has great structure but now my moment of maddens and misjudgement has left me a unstructured, unlevel, unweather proof mess that I actually think I’ve forgotten how to make into something suitable to drill !

I think a light pass with a carrier and the rolls - the cost and time of which makes me recall what a lot of pointless work cultivation is

Not sure why I’m sharing this - just felt some sort of need to confess :-(

Which sub soiler did you use ??

 

[Andrew K]

You should have done only half the field, then compare? suspect DD would still be the right thing? Dont take your sandals off again!

 

[Phil P]

And that’s my worry ! If we had left well alone we could be drilling within hours of the rain stopping such was the structure

What was I thinking !

We can all have a moment of madness, although I’m surprised you still own a subsoiler!

We made the mistake of working a lot of ground post harvest 17, couldn’t get nearly it until April/May18 that was a big learning curve!

 

[Bob lincs]

That’s the positive I’m trying to find in this

Honestly don’t know what I was thinking or what I thought I might achieve

Everything always looks a lot worse when it’s wet and chucking it down .

 

[Clive]

Which sub soiler did you use ??

A old cheap Simba with pro lift legs we bough last year to move from 24m to 36m tramlines

Should have sold it when we finished ! I think it maybe got used because it was “there”

 

[d williams]

A old cheap Simba with pro lift legs we bough last year to move from 24m to 36m tramlines

Should have sold it when we finished ! I think it maybe got used because it was “there”

Try a sumo next time

 

[Clive]

We can all have a moment of madness, although I’m surprised you still own a subsoiler!

We made the mistake of working a lot of ground post harvest 17, couldn’t get nearly it until April/May18 that was a big learning curve!

I didn’t but bought one last year to move fixed tramlines as a “ one off” task

 

[Clive]

Try a sumo next time

Thy look low disturbance but lower still is to just not use one at all !

 

[Adeptandy]

At least its only 10 acre, in % terms of area not a disaster on your scale I'm guessing, but the honesty is appreciated

 

[d williams]

Thy look low disturbance but lower still is to just not use one at all !

Are you baleing the straw ? I think it’s relative to the traffic
I would get one on demo and try a field on your controlled traffic just to compare you do have some weight travelling the same ground