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wheel tracks

  • 23-10-2012 8:32pm
    #1
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭


    Lads,

    I've a few fields semi riddled with wheel tracks after the hedge cutting and will have a lad in with an excavator this week to do some work for me. I will be reseeding these fields in the spring so am wondering is it worth having them touched up with the excavator now or will the power harrow sort it out for me come spring time? Some of the tracks are about 10 inches deep in places. But I dont want to be giving a lad 40 Euro an hour to be fluting around the field in his machine if I can avoid it at all. Thanks.


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  • #2
    grazeaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭grazeaway


    If your going to plough the fields when your re seeding then there is no need to get the excavator, use the plough to even them out.


  • #3
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Figerty


    I tried the same this year with the digger,, worked well some places not so well others.. I came to the conlcusion than an hour with the size 10 wellys was just as effective and more selective!


  • #4
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Figerty wrote: »
    I tried the same this year with the digger,, worked well some places not so well others.. I came to the conlcusion than an hour with the size 10 wellys was just as effective and more selective!

    Ha, ha love it. Honest and to the point, nothing like "gettin on with it and stop your faffing about".


  • #5
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    If you are ploughing it in the spring just leave them or if you want to touch them up now try a chain harrow if you can get 1. Leave it folded up and drive over the ruts with a tyre on each side of it do 1 rut at a time, I find it a good job


  • #6
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    Not ploughing it just gonna power harrow and reseed hopefully. So will the power harrow be enough to straighten out the field?


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  • #7
    ABlur
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    Had my place badly rutted with hedge cutting in the spring. Water trapped in ruts all 'summer' and couldnt flow to drains and soil was destroyed around them. Had the digger man in for a roadway job and some drains last month and got him to flatten out the worst of the ruts, made a good job of it and water seems to be flowing off them now. For heavy land like mine I couldnt see a power harrow on its own solving the problem.


  • #8
    SkittlesTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭SkittlesTom


    Can you get a subsoiler? Careful of drains, usualy best leave to settle it's self once compaction is removed


  • #9
    grazeaway
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    foxylock wrote: »
    Not ploughing it just gonna power harrow and reseed hopefully. So will the power harrow be enough to straighten out the field?

    simple answer without seeing your land is NO. if you have the lad in anway it might be ok to get him to flaten them out. but i wouldnt get him in espically for it. if you can get hold of an old plough you can plough them in your self in the spring. run down each side and turn the sod into the rut then run your power harrow over them to smoth it out.


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