Vertical Tillage

[cottonpicken]

Hit the panic button and bought a salford,pretty
much the best thing ever,one of those interesting
moments in life,paradigm shift,what you thought is
and isn't possible changes.

[bgmb]

I would still strongly recommend burning your wheat straw asap, it will dry so much faster.

[freewheat]

For the guys recommending burning: You
need a fireguard, and if you can't make
one because it is too wet, then what?

[mbratrud]

I guess time will tell. Can drive you around our country and show you drifts of dirt in the ditches from this spring. We are not in an area where we have six feet of topsoil to lose. Anyway 30% done seeding and its feeling like dejavu.... We will seed more but its not going to be 100% thats for sure. After last year I refuse to seed in June.

[bgmb]

Generally if it's too wet to fire guard you won't
need one, roads also work just keep the h2o trick
on hand. Never had a field blow yet burnt or
unburnt, we have some trees and are usually not
too dry also only burn when it's wet. guess it is an
area thing

[bgmb]

Put your big 4wd on the old 12 foot cult you have
laying in the bush for a fire guard don't know a
farmer who doesn't have one of those laying
around.

[freewheat]

I think people have "relative" views of
wet. SF3, thinks he is wet. To me he is
not. Just an example, not picking on
you, SF3.

And when you farm a block with no roads,
lakes, bush, ravines, etc. it is tougher
to burn. But other than modifying the
hitch on my old 14' er, it may be an
option when it isn't so slimy.

[malta]

Did a demo of one 2 years ago. In dealing with excess moisture, it made it worse, not better. I planted winter wheat on the feild last fall, but if I hadn't I wouldn't be in there yet this spring. Just had another inch and a half, so that feild would be 7-10 days away whereas will likely go on the rest by wed-thur

[rainman]

I rigged up my 41' Salford to use with my leading
Bourgault tank and tried it out last spring with
great success. I put valmar deflector plates on the
front of it on 12" spacing and seeded a section of
canola before it dried up to much. I put down 5
pounds of seed and the field turned out very well.
I would recommend this to anyone facing excess
moisture....looking like I might need it again. Just
for the record I am not a sales rep or any way
affiliated with Salford, just a happy customer. If
anyone wishes I have pictures of my crop at about
the 5 leaf stage.that gives a good illustration of
how it worked. These machines are versatile and
built well, very pricey though. My 2 cents...