Cant quite make out from your pictures how your mounting is, but if the subsoiler is pulling out of the ground I'd think you dont have the a frame quite upright. It should be set 90 degrees to the ground, so the tine is pulling itself in and only the tractor hydraulics prevent it going right down. To use it for pipe laying you need an attachment that you attach to the bottom of the tine and then connect the pipe to this. As you pull through the ground the pipe folows the tine and when you get to where you want to go you disconnect it. Hope this helps?
Subsoiler adventure
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daugen
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my first attempt at using the one bottom was pretty sad and the first pass on that rocky soil was challenging to say the least. No way I could hold a straight line, I was veering off to the right like a drunken sailor. As I have admitted, not pretty at all. BUT, my final pass, with the top link dropped, worked much better and quickly showed me what I was doing wrong. Dense wet clay full of stones, probably not an ideal training ground for me.
Even with the ag tires, it was clear to me I needed a tractor heavier than what I have to do what I was doing with any success. And certainly to plow a straight line...Several times the front of the tractor went at least a foot in the air when I hooked a rock, so I was just trying to get it done as safely as I could, and it was hard going, really hard going. So yeah, my plowing style was pretty awful here. But next year....
I've looked at a bunch of plow day videos on YouTube and reminded myself what it was supposed to look like, all those nice furrows laid aside with precision, like sliced roast beef. My garden looked like a B52 pavebombed it...no I sure don't get any style points here. I did a lot better when I was plowing at 12 years old...
I have a fair sense of humor and humility, and usually don't mind people telling me what a dufus I am. I took some video of the ripping and plowing that I will try to upload. All constructive comments and sharp eyes appreciated.
Even with the ag tires, it was clear to me I needed a tractor heavier than what I have to do what I was doing with any success. And certainly to plow a straight line...Several times the front of the tractor went at least a foot in the air when I hooked a rock, so I was just trying to get it done as safely as I could, and it was hard going, really hard going. So yeah, my plowing style was pretty awful here. But next year....
I've looked at a bunch of plow day videos on YouTube and reminded myself what it was supposed to look like, all those nice furrows laid aside with precision, like sliced roast beef. My garden looked like a B52 pavebombed it...no I sure don't get any style points here. I did a lot better when I was plowing at 12 years old...
I have a fair sense of humor and humility, and usually don't mind people telling me what a dufus I am. I took some video of the ripping and plowing that I will try to upload. All constructive comments and sharp eyes appreciated.
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KIDS. My favorite rock picking tools as well!:laughing:
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daugen
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Kids. You bet. At one point today, after picking up my zillionth rock, I would have paid a princely sum to some kid for every chunk of that granite picked up. But sadly, no kids to be had.
never had any kids so I don't have grandkids to pay exorbitant amounts of money to quite willingly. I live in Bucks County PA in suburbia and do my "farming" at a local friend's estate farm. None of the kids in my neighborhood would pick rocks, no way. Most of them don't have to work, which I imagine most of us have done since an early age in one form or another. They are given allowances to perform tasks anyone over 50 years old would have been hollered at if we didn't do automatically. Get paid for taking out the trash? No.
I worked four hours Friday afternoon and evening, 10 hours on Saturday, and at least three on Sunday, to mow and trim our seven acres of lawn, which included an orchard, grape arbor, endless split rail fencing, etc, and this was before weedwackers. Now granted this was 50 years ago, but for a weekend of work I earned 5 dollars. 17 hours for five bucks. And there were days we'd get an extra buck or two if we walked behind the tractor and wagon for hours picking rocks out of the fields. In the sun.
I'm not trying to be melodramatic here, but in my part of this wonderful country, kids don't seem to work very hard or have the need or desire to do so. When I grew up in this area, a third of the kids in my high school were kids of farmers. I bet in some of your areas it's double that. Not any more here, a farmer's kid would be like an astronaut's kid, a rarity... So all those kids raised on farms who understood chores and the need to do real work just aren't around here any more. I'm not trying to write off a generation with a broad brush either; I think this is just a fact of life in suburban areas.
A good friend of mine has headed or assisted a local Boy Scout troop for many years, and long after his son went through the ranks. I joked with him about getting the Troop in, and I'd donate an expensive gift certificate to the local sporting goods store so they could buy new tents or something if they would come out and pick rocks. He chuckled and said that was pretty unlikely.
So no kids for me. Plan B? C?
never had any kids so I don't have grandkids to pay exorbitant amounts of money to quite willingly. I live in Bucks County PA in suburbia and do my "farming" at a local friend's estate farm. None of the kids in my neighborhood would pick rocks, no way. Most of them don't have to work, which I imagine most of us have done since an early age in one form or another. They are given allowances to perform tasks anyone over 50 years old would have been hollered at if we didn't do automatically. Get paid for taking out the trash? No.
I worked four hours Friday afternoon and evening, 10 hours on Saturday, and at least three on Sunday, to mow and trim our seven acres of lawn, which included an orchard, grape arbor, endless split rail fencing, etc, and this was before weedwackers. Now granted this was 50 years ago, but for a weekend of work I earned 5 dollars. 17 hours for five bucks. And there were days we'd get an extra buck or two if we walked behind the tractor and wagon for hours picking rocks out of the fields. In the sun.
I'm not trying to be melodramatic here, but in my part of this wonderful country, kids don't seem to work very hard or have the need or desire to do so. When I grew up in this area, a third of the kids in my high school were kids of farmers. I bet in some of your areas it's double that. Not any more here, a farmer's kid would be like an astronaut's kid, a rarity... So all those kids raised on farms who understood chores and the need to do real work just aren't around here any more. I'm not trying to write off a generation with a broad brush either; I think this is just a fact of life in suburban areas.
A good friend of mine has headed or assisted a local Boy Scout troop for many years, and long after his son went through the ranks. I joked with him about getting the Troop in, and I'd donate an expensive gift certificate to the local sporting goods store so they could buy new tents or something if they would come out and pick rocks. He chuckled and said that was pretty unlikely.
So no kids for me. Plan B? C?
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daugen
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good reading. The writer is clearly pissed at the US intransigence in keeping SAE vs. ISO, and I find the reference to global noncompetitiveness interesting.
I bet the Buicks built by GM in China, a major US car over there, are built on the Metric system.
Metric system (SI). The abbreviation for the metric system is SI, the International System of Units (from the French, Systeme International d'Unites). It evolved from the original French metric system and is currently being used virtually worldwide. Long the language universally used in science and among technically adept individuals, SI has also become the dominant language of international commerce and trade. All new USA standards (ASTM, ANSI, SAE, IEEE, ASME, etc.) are now written in metric, as the lead engineers in these organizations recognize the importance of trying to get the USA on track with technically advanced countries, in an effort to regain lost USA competitiveness in a global economy, as there is essentially no global market for the archaic, oddball, incompatible product dimensions USA arbitrarily comes up with, while they forfeit industries and jobs to third-world countries who have no problem understanding something so simple and fulfilling the need efficiently. IEEE was intelligent enough to recognize this decades ago. Japan also was intelligent enough to recognize simple matters such as this long ago. This small country, defeated in WWII only 60 years ago, has since captured a large portion of the global economy due to their intelligent progress, and consequently has become a major global financier, while USA has become a world-class debtor to the tune of trillions due to inefficient business practices, low educational level, slackerism, and inability to solve or understand even simple problems such as metric conversion.
