Well how are you feeling about all the wood chips now that it’s been a year? The local track adds a lot of wood chips and it makes the higher speed sweepers very loose and unstable. Curious what your thoughts are.
@jcbenson01 overall positive for sure, our soil is mostly clay filled loam and rocks so it packs very tight and gets dusty. So the chipped corners are looser and rut up better now. However when it’s really dry they will make it even looser as you will have soft material on top of the hard pack and it will want to slide out. When it’s prepped though they are the best corners on the track. We will post an update video at some point we are about due to add some more chips (they have been piled up breaking down since this video). But always too much work to do around the farm and never enough time.
@@BrollBrothersProductionssounds like my synopsis also. Just be careful adding too much. I agree when the track is wet and soft it’s great. But the sweeper gets packed down somewhat and the hard packed spots with the mulch are like riding on coasters sliding on a coffee table.
@ spot on with ours as well. The best two corners we have are under giant trees so there was decently thick black topsoil there when we started. They got some chips and the leaves tilled in every year.
@@BrollBrothersProductions I have a private track has some grass overgrowth . Have in the past used a power rake to till about 2-3 inches deep . Track has never been ripped since built w a dozer and trackloader. I’ve spent a fortune buying implements can you give me the brand / model on your cultivator I use a kubota L6060 grand 60hp cab tractor …. Thank for your help / info
@@barryjacobson5013 I have no idea what brand mine is just bought it off marketplace. Just search whatever implement size your tractor uses (I would guess cat 2) cultivator. Depending on how hard your soil is you might need a ripper or a rototiller. But our tractor is also smaller so yours might be able to cultivate deeper. I’ll look and see if I can find a video that shows the ripper. I didn’t find one but essentially for hard pack ground a ripper digs in much better it has larger and fewer teeth. A cultivator works better in open ground or soft ground, we like to use it after it rains we have pretty hard clay and rock mix.
@barryjacobson5013 In this video, ruclips.net/video/YM4Zz2RpB7Q/видео.html , we use the ripper to to open up the ground and allow us to skim off the topsoil before digging out some clay. We start ripping at timecode 8:43. We will also make a track prep video including ripping the ground but that will be a little while. The ripper we custom built did not buy
They actually help to loosen the soil and hold moisture, and will break down into really nice black dirt eventually. Our base dirt is a very hard clay with rocks.
Well how are you feeling about all the wood chips now that it’s been a year? The local track adds a lot of wood chips and it makes the higher speed sweepers very loose and unstable. Curious what your thoughts are.
@jcbenson01 overall positive for sure, our soil is mostly clay filled loam and rocks so it packs very tight and gets dusty. So the chipped corners are looser and rut up better now. However when it’s really dry they will make it even looser as you will have soft material on top of the hard pack and it will want to slide out. When it’s prepped though they are the best corners on the track. We will post an update video at some point we are about due to add some more chips (they have been piled up breaking down since this video). But always too much work to do around the farm and never enough time.
@@BrollBrothersProductionssounds like my synopsis also. Just be careful adding too much. I agree when the track is wet and soft it’s great. But the sweeper gets packed down somewhat and the hard packed spots with the mulch are like riding on coasters sliding on a coffee table.
@ spot on with ours as well. The best two corners we have are under giant trees so there was decently thick black topsoil there when we started. They got some chips and the leaves tilled in every year.
What are you using on the tractor to prep the track
The first tool is called a cultivator, then after we added chips we used a rototiller.
@@BrollBrothersProductions I have a private track has some grass overgrowth . Have in the past used a power rake to till about 2-3 inches deep . Track has never been ripped since built w a dozer and trackloader.
I’ve spent a fortune buying implements can you give me the brand / model on your cultivator I use a kubota L6060 grand 60hp cab tractor ….
Thank for your help / info
@@barryjacobson5013 I have no idea what brand mine is just bought it off marketplace. Just search whatever implement size your tractor uses (I would guess cat 2) cultivator. Depending on how hard your soil is you might need a ripper or a rototiller. But our tractor is also smaller so yours might be able to cultivate deeper. I’ll look and see if I can find a video that shows the ripper. I didn’t find one but essentially for hard pack ground a ripper digs in much better it has larger and fewer teeth. A cultivator works better in open ground or soft ground, we like to use it after it rains we have pretty hard clay and rock mix.
@barryjacobson5013 In this video, ruclips.net/video/YM4Zz2RpB7Q/видео.html , we use the ripper to to open up the ground and allow us to skim off the topsoil before digging out some clay. We start ripping at timecode 8:43. We will also make a track prep video including ripping the ground but that will be a little while. The ripper we custom built did not buy
Why wood chips? Just to us em up or do they dry ground out or something
They actually help to loosen the soil and hold moisture, and will break down into really nice black dirt eventually. Our base dirt is a very hard clay with rocks.
@@BrollBrothersProductions oh gotcha, makes a lot of sense.. cheers from new zealand🤘
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