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Post by Angus in NCMO® on Nov 10, 2011 20:43:48 GMT -5
We used to have (may still, not sure if it's in the weeds) a single leg, pull-type ripper that may be just what you are thinking about. Got pics and a price ? that sounds exactly like what's referred to around 'here' as a root plow. It's used to cut the sucker roots along a brushy field edge. Not so popular here as they used to be since a lot of times, sprouts would spring up from all of the cut roots. Soil and Water Conservation Districts 'here' used to rent them out by the day/week.
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Farms on tracks, take that in account when viewing my opinion.
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Post by mmiller on Nov 13, 2011 13:57:47 GMT -5
Does he have rooter bands, or rock buckets?
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Post by MarlandS on Nov 13, 2011 14:06:06 GMT -5
They're kind of home made rooter bands . I
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Farms on tracks, take that in account when viewing my opinion.
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Post by mmiller on Nov 13, 2011 18:49:16 GMT -5
I know the hardcore guys around here, or the pipeliners out west that run all winter do a few different things. Rooter bands are pretty normal, and then a step up is a rock bucket with replaceable Pengo or Dallas Teeth. Sometimes they have to backhoe in the start of the ditch and get the wheel down, then they can progress forward to cut the frost. Around here the guys will put chains on the trencher tires so they can pull the digging wheel through the frost, when the surface is slimy ontop of the frost. Never seen anyone around here rip in front of the trencher.
Michael
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Post by jabber1 on Nov 19, 2011 13:05:17 GMT -5
Those frozen chunks could be a bitch when it comes time to backfill the trench.
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Post by MarlandS on Nov 19, 2011 17:19:13 GMT -5
Those frozen chunks could be a bitch when it comes time to backfill the trench. They might be. But then again they probably wouldn't be much worse than the chunks that bust up before the frost get's that extra inch or so that stops the show .
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