What is "heavy" land?
- Thread starter Dukes Fit
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It is. It's not doing much here as Ive lifted it mostly out of work. Think it's more to score the slabs of clay so it weather's better. On lighter soil (!) It levels a bit. Mostly it gets clay in the mechanism and doesn't turn over.
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
@teslacoils - you make it sound fantastic. Is it on your plough just because that's where it lives then, as you'll not get a lot of weathering now?
I used to run Duddo estate just SW of Berwick. Big lumps of the red/brown clay land, The 2003 summer harvest drought cracked normal soils-not this! Two inches down identical to the plasticine you played with as a kid. Extra KV springs on would all be breaking backwards and all the land would do was stand up. Hellish stuff. The second gang on a set of discs would just manage to run without blocking after the first gang had broken ground, Press??? Forget it until baked solid
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It can be really ace. It's a sod to remember be, but you can take it out of work really easy. Extra weight is often a good thing on the plough here. Most of the time it does very little. One day I will take every other Tyne off and replace the remaining with brackets to hold a 1" cultivator point. This won't weather now. Best bet will be either hit it right with the power Harrow, or let it bake and smash it up with the press. Forecast would suggest we won't crop it, but it is coming a legume fallow / red clover ley so no rush. Want a flush of crap off it first anyway.
- Location
- central scotland
- Location
- central scotland
West Stirlingshire loam , not mine may I add but will have some similar