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RalphVa
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- Joined
- Dec 19, 2003
- Messages
- 7,902
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Tractor
- JD 2025R, previously Gravely 5650 & JD 4010 & JD 1025R
Re: Ripper on a 2\" tool bar.
Worked great this afternoon. I ripped with the rows, across the rows and then back with the rows again.
It isn't power limited. Goes to the depth of the little approx 5" high skinny plows before the wheels spin. Just have to give the lift an up jerk to get it moving again. Could just about drive by noise, with one eye on a front tire relative to the ground for steering and to gauge whether spinning. Might get deeper with R1 or R4 treads, but suspect they'd dig holes and possibly compact the soil too much. The organic folks at Twin Oaks hippy commune east of here quit using their big tractor because it compacted the soil too much. They only use a walk-behind rototiller.
Ralph
Worked great this afternoon. I ripped with the rows, across the rows and then back with the rows again.
It isn't power limited. Goes to the depth of the little approx 5" high skinny plows before the wheels spin. Just have to give the lift an up jerk to get it moving again. Could just about drive by noise, with one eye on a front tire relative to the ground for steering and to gauge whether spinning. Might get deeper with R1 or R4 treads, but suspect they'd dig holes and possibly compact the soil too much. The organic folks at Twin Oaks hippy commune east of here quit using their big tractor because it compacted the soil too much. They only use a walk-behind rototiller.
Ralph
