Reid1650: Since your ground is surface drained then just make sure you use your ripper like you would run tile lines. This way the water will drain out the ripper lines under the ground.
If your water ways are steep then you will run the passes that run with the water way first. Then just rip across them when you do the rest of the field. This way they will drain in the sub soil but the surface will be worked in a way that erosion will not be as bad.
If you have a hard pan then ripping the ground should make it drain better. IF you have been using a disk for tillage then I will just about bet that you will have a hard pan.
The guys that talk about ripping 14-18 inches deep are many times wasting fuel. Most of the time I find the hard pan to be just under the tillage depth. Usually at about 8-10 inches. So you would usually rip 10-12 inches. Any deeper and you are just wasting fuel. You may even make your ground worse if you have a yellow clay base. The ripper will bring more clay to the top layer of your soil if you run it deep.
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