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 11-23-2016, 17:47 Post: 22785
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  Subsoiler in pasture

I don't know for sure how much good it does, but since I don't have any cattle or horses, I let a neighbor run his cattle in my pasture and once a year he goes over it with a "chisel plow" which seems to me to do the same thing as a subsoiler; just not quite as deep. The chisels on his plow are 12" apart and when the grass greens up in the Spring, it does look better right down those strips where the chisels ran. So, I'd be inclined to think the subsoiler would be a good idea.






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 11-24-2016, 03:36 Post: 22796
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Roger, there is a considerable difference between the middle busters and subsoilers I've seen. I use a middle buster that's similar to having a doubled 15" moldboard or turning plow. In other words, it turns the soil over both directions instead of just left to right like the turning plow; great for digging potatoes, making "hills" to plant on, or making a pretty wide furrow. And the subsoiler is only about 2" wide, made for loosening the soil without turning it over; and can go much deeper if you have a tractor big enough to pull it. The frame, or toolbar, is almost the same on both (longer shank on the subsoiler), and since I have a relatively small tractor, I don't have a subsoiler, but I sometimes remove the middle buster plow (two bolts) and bolt on a single "chisel plow" chisel point and use it the same as a subsoiler except I can't go as deep.






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 11-25-2016, 13:58 Post: 22811
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That sounds like the best recommendation, Bob. And in my prior post, I mentioned the subsoiler being 2" wide, and I don't think they are actually quite that wide. Michigander, the neighbor who uses a chisel plow on pastures does make a cross pattern. And Roger, re: "the 4" double plow point one a spring tooth". That sounds like what I always just called a "field sweep" and see that the Tractor Supply Co. catalog calls some of them "field cultivator sweeps" and some "row crop sweeps", and I'm using 6" ones instead of 4".






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