Breaking ground or breaking bones?

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SATURN

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Hope I'm in the right one lol.. Been trying to seed the field around our new place, but the plow pan is basically concrete grr. Looks like I'll need to do some sweet talk to the neighbor into lending me their Unverferth 4-shank zone builder hitched to a beefy Ford TW25 with FWA. With 36" shank spacing, im thinking of doing a crisscross pattern to really bust it up. Farming or staging a medieval siege? Hard to tell. Thoughts?
 
SATURN said:
Hope I'm in the right one lol.. Been trying to seed the field around our new place, but the plow pan is basically concrete grr. Looks like I'll need to do some sweet talk to the neighbor into lending me their Unverferth 4-shank zone builder hitched to a beefy Ford TW25 with FWA. With 36" shank spacing, im thinking of doing a crisscross pattern to really bust it up. Farming or staging a medieval siege? Hard to tell. Thoughts?
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Hahaha, looks to me you're fixing to invade something bigger than a farm. The setup is sooo powerful. Crisscross is the way to go if you want to bust it up real good. :)
 
SATURN said:
Hope I'm in the right one lol.. Been trying to seed the field around our new place, but the plow pan is basically concrete grr. Looks like I'll need to do some sweet talk to the neighbor into lending me their Unverferth 4-shank zone builder hitched to a beefy Ford TW25 with FWA. With 36" shank spacing, im thinking of doing a crisscross pattern to really bust it up. Farming or staging a medieval siege? Hard to tell. Thoughts?
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that's a serious combo for busting through concrete! just make sure you're not going too deep on the second pass if you've already shattered it good. good luck and i hope your neighbor is feeling generous!! :)))))
 
@SATURN lol. been there with ground that hard. that Zone Builder is your best friend right now.
I agree that the crisscross will absolutely get it done, but tell your neighbor to expect to fill up that fuel tank more than once!
Also, make sure those shanks are in top shape, nothing worse than snapping one off in concrete level compaction. You might even want to go one way, let it dry for a day or two, then hit the crisscross
 
When we first got our property, the back pasture was so hard-packed it felt more like an old runway. I convinced a friend to lend me his Case tractor with a 5-shank ripper, and I tackled the job in a checkerboard pattern. It seemed like I was going a bit overboard, but it really helped loosen the soil. Of course, I had to promise him half a freezer full of steaks, a fair deal to keep my tractor from becoming scrap metal!
 
That sounds like my own experience, I once had a patch that was so hard it felt like concrete. I borrowed a heavy ripper from a friend and tackled it with a crisscross pattern. It took some elbow grease and a lot of patience, but it really helped break up the soil well. Fingers crossed your neighbor is as generous as mine, got rewarded with a few cold beers
 
Wow, you really knocked it out of the park. Just a bit of hard work, some good chats over cold beers with the neighbors, and you made it happen. Nice job!
 

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