Mole Ploughing

limo_100

Hi Lads I want to do a bit of mole ploughing this year as I never got a chance last year with it being to wet. I am planning on doing the fields as the cows are finished grazing them but just wondering should I mole plough before I spread slurry on these paddocks or after or does it make much difference?

V6400

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058353945/mole-ploughing

I do it after slurry just to give the moles as long as possible to set before machinery or cattle go back into the field.

Hard Knocks

Has anyone gravel mole ploughed, if so what’s your thoughts

RobinBanks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122205555#Comment_122205555

Do you find it leaves the ground very rough. I have a single leg subsoiler and ya would need pull the roller or dive along it with wheel to help smoothen it out.

V6400

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443977#Comment_122443977

if you go half the width of the tractor spacing you will be driving on it as your doing the next run and it’ll level it but still does a good job. Often thought too it wouldn’t be a huge job to make up some sort of a roller for it if you wanted to do wider spacing.

KingPanko

Would anyone like to advise on drainage. Picture is of a test hole to see what we are dealing with. All currently dry and looks ok but in wet weather is not OK. The field had a lot of fill brought in 20 years ago and is draining very poorly. In wet periods it is totally water logged. In 2017 I put a couple of drains in, pipe and stone, water is coming out of them but not enough as the whole area even a couple of feet away from the drain would have water sitting on top of the ground for long period. When those drains were done, the top was dry, the digger found water straight away shallow, then dry and for a test dug deep and found water again a bit over 2 meters down.

In 2018 came to the conclusion that there was a pan there so got a man with a ripper kind of thing to pull it through the ground. It didn't work, it is as wet as ever. Maybe it didn't go deep enough or maybe it's not the right machine. What do ye who have experience with drainage think?