Building a Chisel Plow for my Kubota

zionview · May 2, 2015

Just putting the finishing touches on a 4 shank chisel plow for my B8200. I used John Deere 1010 field cultivator shanks I got at a farm equipment salvage yard. They had duck foot sweeps on them, so I cut them down to chisel width. Hopefully, I'll get to try it out tomorrow or Monday. I'll finish the paint after I make any final adjustments. Sorry about the messy shop!

bdog · May 4, 2015

Looks nice - my favorite kind of plow. I have one with sweeps (shovels) and one with chisel points. This year I got the fields ready to plant without even hooking up the tandem disc. They make chisel points that will bolt on for around $10-15 each.

It will be interesting to see how the bota does. Running shallow you should be ok but going deep it may be more than the tractor will want. I have a ten foot wide 11 shank chisel and it will stop my tractor dead in its tracks if I get too deep and my tractor has 130hp, duals, and weighs close to 15,000lb (it is the tractor and plow in my avatar).

zionview · May 4, 2015

bdog, I got it in the ground yesterday in one of the gardens. I was able to pull it about 4 1/2 inches deep(4WD low range, couldn't move it in 2WD). The soil is nice and mellow, lots of organic matter. I was hoping to get closer to 6 inches, but this will have to do. The rototiller doesn't go much deeper, anyway. With the weights, chisel and driver, the outfit comes in right around 2000 or so pounds. My whole idea was to do some primary tillage to make things easier on the tiller, and I got that. I was pleasantly surprised at the tractor. For being rated at 19HP, it pulled it nicely. I was really cautious about building this. When we farmed, I pulled an 11-point Case/IH Hi-clearance chisel at 8 inches with a 2-105 White. I didn't like the beating the tiller took in untouched ground. It ran easy and quiet after the chisel. I tried moldboarding ahead of the tiller last year, but my wife actually suggested the chisel after she twisted an ankle in an open furrow, and our 1 1/2 yr. old granddaughter fell face first into the same furrow. I'm like you, I always did prefer chiseling.

Ed of all trades · May 4, 2015

I took the shovel off of my potato plow and put a point on it and did mu gardens about a foot deep and a foot apart. It was all my little massey would do but I wanted to break up any hard pan from other users.

PHPaul · May 4, 2015

I made a single tooth ripper from some scrap steel I had laying around. Ripped my garden on about 3 foot centers and full depth (about 18") last fall.

I can see the difference already in how well the garden is draining after the Spring thaw.

Another couple of weeks I'll be able to till it and plant. Not much point in planting anything before Memorial Day in this area. Peas and potatoes maybe, but that's it.

stuckmotor · May 4, 2015

Good job! Did you fabricate the gray planter?

PHPaul · May 4, 2015

Yup, I enjoy raising flowers, have beds all over the place. Makes it a PITA to mow my front yard! :laughing:

I also welded up the hangar, mostly from old disk harrow parts and a handful of dump rake teeth.

zionview · May 4, 2015

stuckmotor said:
Good job! Did you fabricate the gray planter?

I've been working on that planter for about a year on and off. It's a ground-up build that incorporated seed openers from an old John Deere Van Brunt grain drill. Some day, hopefully, I'll get it done. Way too many projects.

zionview · May 4, 2015

PHPaul said:
I made a single tooth ripper from some scrap steel I had laying around. Ripped my garden on about 3 foot centers and full depth (about 18") last fall.

I can see the difference already in how well the garden is draining after the Spring thaw.

Another couple of weeks I'll be able to till it and plant. Not much point in planting anything before Memorial Day in this area. Peas and potatoes maybe, but that's it.

Love the subsoiler! AND the plant hanger!

PHPaul · May 5, 2015

Whoops, I thought he was talking to me. Sorry for the derail.

zionview · May 5, 2015

PHPaul said:
Whoops, I thought he was talking to me. Sorry for the derail.

Derail a little more, please. Is the post made of disc gang hubs? I built a disc out of an old 8 foot drag disc, and have left over parts. How is it supported in the ground? Sorry to jump on you, but that's really original and I know my wife would love it.:thumbsup:

zionview · May 5, 2015

Ed of all trades said:
I took the shovel off of my potato plow and put a point on it and did mu gardens about a foot deep and a foot apart. It was all my little massey would do but I wanted to break up any hard pan from other users.

Got an pictures, Ed?

PHPaul · May 5, 2015

Yep, those are the spacers between blades. I used the disk axle to stack them on.

The original base was a cast front wheel off a Farmall F12. When I built the new planter and went to move the hanger into it, the welds let go (cast iron wheel and cast iron spacers...well beyond my welding capabilities) so I drove a suitably-sized piece of pipe into the ground, tamped stone dust around it to firm it up and then set the hanger into it.

It's a sort of hobby of mine to build "sculptures" out of junk farm equipment. Some examples here for anyone interested.

zionview · May 5, 2015

PHPaul said:
Yep, those are the spacers between blades. I used the disk axle to stack them on.

The original base was a cast front wheel off a Farmall F12. When I built the new planter and went to move the hanger into it, the welds let go (cast iron wheel and cast iron spacers...well beyond my welding capabilities) so I drove a suitably-sized piece of pipe into the ground, tamped stone dust around it to firm it up and then set the hanger into it.

It's a sort of hobby of mine to build "sculptures" out of junk farm equipment. Some examples here for anyone interested.

Thanks, Paul! If I don't have enough to do the hanging plant stand, I know I have enough to make a bird bath. And thanks for the link, lots of good ideas!

PHPaul · May 5, 2015

Yer welcome. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

zionview · May 7, 2015

PHPaul, the wife liked the birdbath idea more than the hangar. I was several spacers short of the hangar anyway. It only took about an hour to make. If wife happy, zionview happy.

PHPaul · May 7, 2015

There ya go!

Where in Central PA? Got a good friend lives near Danville, which I guess is North Central.

zionview · May 8, 2015

I'm about 70 miles west of Danville, about 12 miles east of Penn State. I also have a friend in Danville, worked with him for 5 years. Waiting for the wife to notice the birdbath. I set it on the septic tank. I can't leave anything alone.