Highbeam
Super Member
"I have read about an old technique like tiling, but without the "tile" ...an implement was pulled through the ground to create underground voids or channels ...the implement was a relatively thin blade with a torpedo shape at the bottom end (think of a subsoiler but with a streamlined business end)...once it entered the ground and was pulled along, a little tunnel was formed subsurface and the slit to the surface healed itself ...took a lot of power ...some times pulled by a drag line from a stationary engine at edge of field if the area would not support a tractor ...the "torpedo" compressed earth around its "bow wave" and left the tunnel with compressed earth sides in its "wake" ...much like horizontal compression boring"
That's called a mole plow. Pretty cool but a rare bird.
I bought a subsoiler and ran a series of parallel rows running down the gentle slope to perhaps allow drainage. Of course I also worked the surface to slope the ground towards a ditch. This winter is the first test of the grade and subsoil technique. A subsoiler sure tears up the ground and makes a mess.
That's called a mole plow. Pretty cool but a rare bird.
I bought a subsoiler and ran a series of parallel rows running down the gentle slope to perhaps allow drainage. Of course I also worked the surface to slope the ground towards a ditch. This winter is the first test of the grade and subsoil technique. A subsoiler sure tears up the ground and makes a mess.