Steve: To do much good ripping you need it to be dry for a good shatter of the hard pan. Also if you can pull the ripper with some speed it will work better too. Matter of fact an inline ripper require some speed to create a shock wave effect through the soil.
IF your ground is wet and has some roll to it you can rip it the way you would put ditches in it and it will help it drain better for several years.
You also can have a hard pan created by tillage.
Take a 3/8 rod about 3 foot long. Push it down into your ground. You will be able to feel it go in easy until it hits any hard pan layer you have. Then it will push harder until your through the hard pan. If you measure how deep you are when you hit the hard pan and where you are through it you then know how deep you need to rip. You want to be a few inches under the bottom of the hard pan.
Example: You hit the hard pan at 8 inches deep. You break through it at 10 inches deep. You then should run your ripper at 12 inches deep to shatter the hard pan.
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