Can you plow criss cross?

[Bob Senti]

Well all I appreciate the insights!

I don't have the money for new teeth, and the fact that I'd be turning green side back up makes logical sense, and isnt what I want. I'll disk it up in the spring.

Im glad to read that running over it the first time with the disc harrow will be a real arm burner too, as I was wondering if it was supposed to be that jerky. I've driven over those furrows and it really yoinks my Ferguson TO30 stearing around and I thot to myself I must be doing something wrong.

Im enjoying this process enough Im going to have to look for some other pastures to till up. I aint got enough land to get properly good at this! The neighbors yard looks pretty smooth. So grassy and flat, it just begs for a good plowing :confused2:

Cheers,

Bob

 

[cowski]

we always disk ,field cultivate or do-all a broke field twice in a x pattern.this levels the ground out.

 

[Mace Canute]

Hmmm...I plowed a few acres just this summer and I'm pretty sure that if I had tried to plow it again at 90 degrees, all it would have done is plug the plow. The previous strips of sod would not have been anchored to the ground and would have just pushed ahead of the plowshare. I don't think extending the coulters to cut the same depth as the plowshare would even change that.

 

[backdoor]

Sounds like you might have tried to plow sodland when the dirt was too dry for the plow to go in good. An old farmer once told me that sod needs to be too wet to plow before you can plow it. If your furrows are less than 5 inches deep, you can probably replow at 90 degrees if you wait until rain loosens the soil enough so that your plow will go in about 8 inches, or deeper than the disturbed soil you have now. If you can't get your plow down into undisturbed dirt, you probably won't have much luck. It's hard to plow loose soil. I've done exactly what we are talking about. Good luck.

 

[Bird]

I never plowed at 90 degrees with a moldboard, but I've done it with a middle buster to tear up a garden plot. Then I followed that with the tiller. Even so, it was rough riding, plowing at 90 degrees and then a little extra levelling was required after tilling. I wouldn't recommend it, but I did get it torn up fairly deep.:laughing:

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Hmmm...I plowed a few acres just this summer and I'm pretty sure that if I had tried to plow it again at 90 degrees, all it would have done is plug the plow. The previous strips of sod would not have been anchored to the ground and would have just pushed ahead of the plowshare. I don't think extending the coulters to cut the same depth as the plowshare would even change that.

What he said^^^^

It's a bit of a mistake to plow the same ground twice in one year, muchless a second time right after the first.

Disc it!

 

[bigbull338]

you always plow or disk with the grain to make it as smooth as possable.had a cousin plow his new hay meadow against the grain.an it was a big pain baling hay on that field.needless to say most just baled it once for him.

 

[stowester]

Hmmm...I plowed a few acres just this summer and I'm pretty sure that if I had tried to plow it again at 90 degrees, all it would have done is plug the plow. The previous strips of sod would not have been anchored to the ground and would have just pushed ahead of the plowshare. I don't think extending the coulters to cut the same depth as the plowshare would even change that.

Yep: Didn't work for me 40 yrs ago, but my grandfather had a bit of fun picking on me...

 

[flyingcow]

Hmmm...I plowed a few acres just this summer and I'm pretty sure that if I had tried to plow it again at 90 degrees, all it would have done is plug the plow. The previous strips of sod would not have been anchored to the ground and would have just pushed ahead of the plowshare. I don't think extending the coulters to cut the same depth as the plowshare would even change that.

I'm with him.

Plus it takes a bit of fiddling(adjusting) to get a plow to turn the sod just right. And the operator has to have some practice to get it to flip correctly. There is a special speed in which to make it right, and this could vary from filed to field. With that said, I've seen experienced plowman still have a tough go of it.

 

[sweettractors]

This is a really strange question.

If I plow in one direction on unbroken sod ground, and end up with with so-so furrows, can you plow perpendicular to those when done? Will that just not work or tear things up? I do plan on taking a disc harrow to it in late spring, but because the first pass was so rough I thot about taking another crack at it in the opposite direction. :thumbsup:

Or should I let it settle and just replow in the same direction?

Or perhaps use a few sticks of dynamite :licking::licking::licking:

Cheers,

Bob

My approach would be to run a HEAVY drag over the field asap and then after the freezing and thawing and raining. Use a disc harrow to prepare the seedbed, come spring. Ken Sweet