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Deep loosening need a large energy, high traction resistance is big, energy consumption is high. To find the optimum energy consumption and resistance a series of field tests were conducted in a sand-loam soil. This experiment was conducted at Guan, Hebei province in China in November 2010. The two types of deep ripper shank (vibration and non-vibration shank) were compared to find out their influence on draft requirements, and soil physical parameters such as, bulk density, and soil moisture content through the 400 mm soil layers from the soil surface. The nature of soil at the farm was found to be silt-loamy soil.A pull sensor and two tractors were used to measure the forces and soil pressure on the blade. The results showed that the traction resistance with vibration is 6.9% -17% less than that of non-vibration.