Subsoiler 3pt attachment

47HP vs County Line subsoiler. I made it a few hundred feet before I crinkled it. It’s a horrible design because there is no shear pin on the shank. The pictures don’t do what happened to it justice. The whole subsoiler shank now has a twist in it, and the top frame is pulled forward. If you are close to Ohio I’ll gladly sell it to you.

Bought a $79 one from Amazon that has a shear pin and worked a hell of a lot better. The soil is very rocky where I live at.

 

I saw 3 of those at tractor supply, they were all bent up returns . cheap Chinese junk, save your money.

 

I’m not a fan of the tractor supply implements, usually cheap steel, and won’t hold up to lots of use. Don’t get me wrong behind a 25-30hp tractor they do just fine, anything more than 40hp and heavy usage leads to bend implements.

Lots of people have posted online about the failures of them. The same number of people or more with subcompact tractors love them for the cheap costs, and never have issues, and defend the brand.

 

I've been looking at the agrisupply ones:


I literally only need it to work for a couple days and it pays for itself.

 

I'm definitely not a fan of their stuff either, this one was a friends and then became mine when I tore it up.

The reason they are garbage is because the design of the product is horrible. The cheap one I bought from Amazon with a shear pin held up just fine, and I subsoiled two acres with it. Did I tear up the shear pin, yep. But that's why there's a shear pin there.

To the OP, I would not buy one of these unless it has a shear pin or some kind of trip in it like a plow has. To be really blunt, you are wasting your money on one to put water line in. If you hit a big rock, you'll end up doing lots of digging by hand. I'd rent a small backhoe for the weekend and dig the lines in.

 

I'm well over a thousand dollars to rent a backhoe for the weekend in this area. I can buy 5 subsoilers before that starts to make sense...

 

I made a ripper shank for burying an underground dog fence. It was better than nothing, but not by much. These things are for breaking up soil so it can otherwise be tilled or excavated...they are not a substitute for a trencher or excavator....not even remotely close.

 

Sounds like a great business opportunity. If I could buy and rent machines at $125 an hour I'd go into the business in a minute.

It sounds like you have your mind made up and nobody is going to sway you. Good luck.

 

You don't believe me?

Sunbelt shows a micro-backhoe is $538 per day once added to cart. Assuming only 2 days for a weekend that's $1076 plus an hour of driving each way and I'm unsure if it comes with a trailer but if not that's another $150 per day or so. Trencher, same thing.

 

Nobody said that, so I'm not sure why you are implying that. I was going to write a long post and explain to you on how to get a much better deal on a rental but I'm not doing to waste my time. Good luck in your endeavor.

 

I have one that is a big hook at least a inch solid. So far it has buried a lot of water and electric lines without a problem. It can move over or dislodge a decent size rock.

 

Maybe its unique to this particular business, but our local rental place rents from noon (I think it is) on Saturday to 8am Monday morning for 1 day rental cost.

 

The one i referenced is the same. Pick up 9am Saturday and return Monday at 7am, for one day.

 

I definitely agree that it can be done with the right piece of equipment and enough HP. Miles of tile gets plowed into the ground every year in my area. But, I've also seen a 400 - 500+ HP 9xxx series JD tractor be brought to its knees before plowing in tile due to hitting a big rock. They were plowing in a tile next to my waterway a number of years ago and I witnessed that happen.

 

I've got lots of rocks but it's not rocky soil, if that makes sense.

I'm pretty sure the subsoiler idea is gonna work. I'll report back in a few weeks once I have a chance to try. I did decide to go for the amazon version as it's a fair bit cheaper. The one in my cart looks like it has a shear pin. Also it plugs into a hitch receiver so this is a good opportunity to pick up one of those for my tractor as well. Opens up some additional avenues for things I can do. Just off the top of my head it's another vehicle I can use to move my dumpster with using my cansporter hitch.

I'll make sure to go super super super slow and back off and get the shovel if I hang on anything.


Who knows maybe this will all end up moot if I can bribe the ATT Fiber installer to do some off-the-clock work while he's here

 

That’s the same setup that worked for me. I’d picked up a hitch receiver on sale from Titan Attachments at some point in time.