what's that coming over the hill ?

[Light Land]

if all the stones were to be picked out ol, the field wound be lowered by about 3ft 

if the srones were not there , it wouldn't drain as well as it does ,the soil would then pan down hard & would then be almost unworkable.

This method of destoning complete fields has been tried years ago at a farm near langport , about 12 miles away , now the whole farm is permanent set aside , or mindrilled linseed, as there are no stones ,the fields don't drain, the soil packs hard & is completely unworkable , when wet it clogs up every thing , when dry it's as hard as concrete , i pulled a 12ton set of discs fully weighted on there once & all i ended up doing was making nice straight lines about 5mm deep, just didn't touch it , then after 5 mins of rain i spent more time racing the dics in a left turn circle to try & keep them free & clear,

  When dry a plough will not draw into the ground & a powerharrow just skips & jumps across the surface, when wet the plough gets down to about 3in deep & just holds the tractor still as you cant get any grip , that stuff was evil 

we did manage to plant spuds of a fashion in one of the better fields , but when it rained it compacted the soil again & the spuds couldn't grow we couldn't harvest them so were left to rot & just leveled the ridges with a mounted set of discs     

Thanks for that marcus,I realy enjoyed reading that.

[Pingu]

Very interesting to read that marcus our heavy land has alot of stones in it as well bar few fields that are just evil to plough so they make sense