flusher
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- Getting old. Sold the ranch. Sold the tractors. Moved back to the city.
You need to dig a test hole and find out if you have any hardpan (dense clay) layer within 3 feet of the surface. You'll lose your trees if the roots can't get to groundwater because of the hardpan.
If you have hardpan, you either need to rip the soil in your spruce orchard with a subsoiler that's generally pulled by a Cat bulldozer. That's how the professional orchard growers around here do it. You can use a post hole digger with an 18" dia auger to punch through the hardpan. Or use a backhoe to dig a trench to get below the hardpan layer.
Good luck.
If you have hardpan, you either need to rip the soil in your spruce orchard with a subsoiler that's generally pulled by a Cat bulldozer. That's how the professional orchard growers around here do it. You can use a post hole digger with an 18" dia auger to punch through the hardpan. Or use a backhoe to dig a trench to get below the hardpan layer.
Good luck.
