sub-soil rippers

[Gary Fowler]

I have been using my box blade rippers to dig up some rocks but I just cant get them in the ground deep enough. I was driving past a local hardware store who also sells a few implements and they had what looked like the front ripper side of a 5 foot box blade for sale for $300. I just had to buy one to try it out. I will unhook my box blade and try it for digging those pesky rocks out. Likely I could have searched and found a box blade and modified it for same or less money, but I have this now and no further work needed.

I may later get some heavy steel and make a 3 PH attachment so I can hang this on behind my box blade for a double whammy at those rocks.
Anyone ever use one of these attachments.

 

[bcp]

One of this style?

Rankin scarifier



Often the hitch pins are higher so it will go deeper than a box blade, even without taking into consideration the blade behind interfering.

Bruce

 

[teg]

Could you have used only 2 rippers? or even just one? vs. using 4 or 5 on the box blade???

 

[R W]

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[sdef]

One of this style?

Rankin scarifier

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Often the hitch pins are higher so it will go deeper than a box blade, even without taking into consideration the blade behind interfering.

Bruce

It sounds to me like there is not enough weight on the shanks. I used my 700# ROBB to do the same in my heavy clay soil and the ROBB's weight was just barely adequate. A 1000# - 1500# box blade would have been better.

 

[MBTRAC]

Have a look at, Yeomans Plow | Yeomans Concepts - How to End Global Warming & Stop Climate Change

Yes a Yeomans plough is a great subsoiler but it's an expensive piece of gear that I wouldn't recommended solely for ripping out rocks

 

[oosik]

I've used the rippers on my roll over box blade and on my LPGS. Either one pulls up lots of rocks. As a matter of fact, I'm still "gathering" rocks from a three acre patch I ripped. I don't need to go deeper - I get more than I like with either of the two implements. I go as deep as I can - to the point where the tractor looses traction and begins spinning. I think a two or three tine scarifier would go deeper but it might also hook onto the core of the earth and suck me down.

Man, I REALLY don't need to bring up more rocks!! I need a pto driven rock crusher to create more soil.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Have a look at, Yeomans Plow | Yeomans Concepts - How to End Global Warming & Stop Climate Change

Those look to be true sub-soiler implements made to go down a couple of feet or more. Mine is exactly like a box blade with the back cut out. It also has the back frame part to brace the top link.

 

[sdef]

I've used the rippers on my roll over box blade and on my LPGS.

Man, I REALLY don't need to bring up more rocks!! I need a pto driven rock crusher to create more soil.

+1, +2, +3

 

[Gary Fowler]

I've used the rippers on my roll over box blade and on my LPGS. Either one pulls up lots of rocks. As a matter of fact, I'm still "gathering" rocks from a three acre patch I ripped. I don't need to go deeper - I get more than I like with either of the two implements. I go as deep as I can - to the point where the tractor looses traction and begins spinning. I think a two or three tine scarifier would go deeper but it might also hook onto the core of the earth and suck me down.

Man, I REALLY don't need to bring up more rocks!! I need a pto driven rock crusher to create more soil.

I wanted to get as many of the deeper rocks as I could so they don't continually push up from winter freeze cycle. I made a run this morning at picking up what I turned up yesterday and got about 2/3 of an RTV box load. I will surely find some more small ones when I till, but I am pretty sure I got 99% or the ones that caused my tiller to bounce off the ground.