Sticks and Stones
… may break our disc bladess!
One of the most time consuming and labor intensive things in farming is converting a field from one thing to another. Last year we took on some new property that had been planted as an apple orchard. The trees were old and were removed. Unfortunately, they definitely were not forgotten.
The process of converting the field is complicated by the fact that there are branches, tree roots, and rocks in the field. All of those things, but especially the rocks, can cause havoc on our farm equipment.
For example, this week.
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| Tillage equipment. |
My brother was tilling of the recently converted fields and ran into a rock. As you can see, the disk has a lots of these circular disc blades that run through the soil and break up the dirt. Unfortunately, big rocks can also get stuck between the discs.
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| Keep your hammer handy. |
I had to deliver several metal hammers to the field this week so my brother could literally chop up rocks that get lodged between the discs (yes, they are large rocks). Unfortunately, my pictures from the field didn’t turn out, but the rocks were large enough to get jammed in between the discs. As you can imagine, something like that has the potential to break the equipment, especially the combine. So it is important that we find the rocks before they cause damage.
It makes the job a little harder, but never a dull moment!
The rocks in the field was probably the reason for it being an apple orchard.
Perhaps, yes.