Coolerman
Bronze Member
I have several ditches to dig to bury some 4" black drain tile to carry the water from my gutters away from the house. Each ditch will be about 75-100 feet long through hard packed, rock laden red clay and fescue grass here and there. Digging by hand would have taken days and renting a ditch witch at $200 a day was out of the question as I would not be able to dig all the ditches in one day and would have to rent it again. So... I searched on here and it was suggested one use a subsoiler/middle buster to do the work. I looked on Craigslist but nothing in my area to fit my BX2230D so I ordered a King Cutter combo from Northern Tool through Amazon.
This is not a super heavy duty implement. It is designed for sub-compact tractors, but it is well made. Only issue was the top link bracket was not drilled square and I had to file it a bit to get the top link pin through it. When the subsoiler plate is mounted the 3 point hitch can lift it high enough to transport it to the work site without digging in, but when the middle buster is mounted, you have to take the top link loose and use a bungee cord to rotate it out of the way. Here are some pics of it.
This is not a super heavy duty implement. It is designed for sub-compact tractors, but it is well made. Only issue was the top link bracket was not drilled square and I had to file it a bit to get the top link pin through it. When the subsoiler plate is mounted the 3 point hitch can lift it high enough to transport it to the work site without digging in, but when the middle buster is mounted, you have to take the top link loose and use a bungee cord to rotate it out of the way. Here are some pics of it.