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Mole ploughing

Gudstock · 2023-05-03 15:29:06

When you are mole ploughing do you drive back over the mole trench or do you leave it to settle itself over time?

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03-05-2023 4:29pm

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Gudstock

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When you are mole ploughing do you drive back over the mole trench or do you leave it to settle itself over time?

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#2 03-05-2023 4:33pm
White Clover

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058295048/mole-ploughing

I’d leave it for fear of pushing down a stone and blocking the mole. Interested to hear other people’s views on this too.

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#3 03-05-2023 10:00pm
roosky

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Deffinatly leave it alone....so mole ploughing only works in gley type soils that is sticky enough to form the mole....leave it a good 10 days for the mole to dry out and harden into a solid pipe and then run over it with a chain harrow to level any lumps on the surface

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