Harrold, how about a specific brand/modle number of your water gun nozzle and where to purchase? Win CowgillProfessor and Area Fruit Agent Department HeadRutgers Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon CountyNew Jersey Agriculture Exp. StationPO Box 2900 Flemington, NJ 08822-2900Office 908-788-1339Fax -
Sometimes the trellis posts do not get set in here until this time of year
and often soil is dry and posts hard to pound by now. We use a water gun
nozzle hooked up to the sprayer to "drill" a hole where we then pound
sharpened posts. Can't say if this would work for a hard pan but it might
be wo
We are located on what is known as a drumlin. 24" of soil more or less,
hard-pan and then gravel. There are stones through the profile from
softball size to ones that will fill the bed of a pickup truck. I often
need an excavator for some of the stones when we are getting ready to
plant. I like
Thanks Chris, we'll give it a try.
Art Kelly
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Chris Hedges wrote:
> To get through a gravelly hard pan, we have generally waited until after
> significant rainfall, failing that, if we have trickle irrigation, we run it
> to saturate the soil when we are poundin
How about dynamite or a jack hammer?
Only thing I can think of would be to rent a Cat before you plant and pull a
ripper down the tree row before planting.
This would also help the trees by providing better drainage.
From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
To get through a gravelly hard pan, we have generally waited until after
significant rainfall, failing that, if we have trickle irrigation, we run it to
saturate the soil when we are pounding in posts.
Chris Hedges
Waterford, Ontario
- Original Message -
From: Arthur Kelly
To: Ap
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for pounding or setting line
posts for a tree support system into hard-pan? We have 24-30 inches of soil
and then hard-pan. Some years ago we tried to auger in posts and had great
difficulty penetrating the hard-pan. I'm feeling the posts should go
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