hey guys well this is our old ripping video.maybe 5 months old.running about 6 and a half feet deep.now 7 and a half though its still worth watching i guess.the link is

let me know what u guys think?

A&S,

I'm surprised to see a D11 working without ROPS. Are you working with n standard ripping shank or is this a special one?
At least I have to say that V8 sounds really nice. It seems to me that this D11N even sounds better then the D11R Carrydozer I've seen 2 years ago.

Good footage, thank you for sharing it.

Cheers,

Max

awesome video.

Can you explain why you are ripping. I am from the east Coast and the only thing we rip around here is rock.

im using a special shank.bought 2 of them a couple months ago sense the original doesnt have holes to go any deeper and plus the special shanks are about 6 inches wide all the way around.so wider rip and deeper.though we do have another shank which is 21 inches wide,though that is a whole different ball game.

AND HOPEFULLY SOON ILL HAVE THE VIDEO OF THE D11 R UP WITH 32 INCH WIDE TRACKS AND 4 INCH THICK GROUSERS

"Can you explain why you are ripping. I am from the east Coast and the only thing we rip around here is rock."
Today 02:41 AM

SIR U RIP SO THAT THE GROUND/SOIL GETS RIPPED AND SPREAD FOR AGRICULTURAL USE.LIKE FOR EXAMPLE IF THERE IS ROCKS UNDER THE SOFT LAYER OF CRUST ON TOP OF THE GROUND THEN YOU WOULD WANT IT TO BE SHATTERED.RIGHT NOW THERE IS ABOUT 3 HARD LAYERS OF HARD PAN WHERE I RIP AT SO YEAH.I GUESS ITS FOR SPREADING THE TOP SOIL TO THE BOTTOM WITH A SLIP PLOW AND TO SOFTEN THE BOTTOM

I see that you cross rip for more complete breakup.
How big a field?
How many hours/days to get it done?
How many machines?
How much (approx) is charged for this type service and how by acre/job/time?
What would be a normal hourly rate for a D11?
What are the next steps in this field prep? IE smoothing and leveling etc.
What is the crop?

Thanks
Dudley

Those old 11N's sure sound great! There used to be 4 working a strip mine at my friends property 1/2 mile away and I can still remember that engine sound, also when they back down the spoil the clacking tracks.
Whould that D11 do bettter with some weight attached upfront inplace of the blade?
How much fuel does it use per day?
I have a single shank ripper for my D2 toolbar and it has what looks like a large fishing sinker attached to make a small tunnel while subsoiling.

Greta video. Thanks for sharing. The largest that I have been around was a D10 (can't remebrr the number) in Gladstone, AU. It had an extremely wide blade on it. I would guess about a 40' wide blade and it was used to push saw dust around in the port yard there.

FatCatGotHot,
That thing over the cab is the Roll Over Protection Structure......not that I'd want to test it:)

Deep ripping is done to mix up strafied layers of soil or break up hardpan which is a layer of soil simmilar to sandstone.

The reason why they don't do this on the eastcoast is becouse this is primarly done when planting garapes or trees which send roots down much deeper than he shallow rooted wheat, corn, soybean rotation grown in the east. To bring an orchard into production you are looking at a $40-50k investment per acre to get into production,any mistake made in the first few years will cost you for the next 30 - 40 years.

Single shank is typically used for hardpan, and slip plowing is done for moving stratified soil. A slip plow is a steel plate 1 -2' wide that runs from the shoe up towards the surface. If you slip plow hardpan you end up with large rocks on the surface of your field that you can't get rid of. The last time my family had to break up hardpan for planting almonds we hired 2 hydraulic excavators in to dig about 8 - 10' deep at each tree location then we had to relevel the field and plant the croplater in the winter.

The guy who does my familys ripping from Madera has a large weight about the size of a peach bin that is mounted infront of the nose for counter weight. the problem with running a blade for counter weight is moving the thing the blade on the larger cats must be taken off and moved sideways on a lowbed trailer. Not something you want to do every few weeks when you have to move it.

I don't know what your rates are, but a few years ago we rented a Komatsu from a rental yard in Fresno for $250/hr, + operator + shoes + shipping + ~30 gallons an hour?