How does the SoilWarrior handle rocks and tough soils?
Our experience on more than 10,000 acres of testing is that the row units handle rocks and varying soil types extremely well. Our farm is a good test site. We have soils that range from deep muck to peat to nice loam to rocky and gravel-laden knolls. The large Deep Till coulters have struck several rocks at 6″-10″ deep and we have not broken a coulter or row unit. We have broken a few tillage bits, but that happens because they do most of the cutting and are subject to more stress. We have not broken a guide wheel or a containment coulter. The Deep Till coulter will dig into just about any type of hard soils, including packed headlands and wheel tracks. The machine can do this because of the pneumatic down pressure supplied by the air bags. However, the machine is not meant to be used in extreme drought or dry conditions. If you wouldn’t be out there with a disk or chisel plow or moldboard plow, you shouldn’t be out there with the SoilWarrior.
