5525 chisel plowing capability

[WouldWerker]

I was wondering if my '08 5525 could pull a 7 point chisel plow; anyone have experience with this?

-Chris, Liberty Hill, TX

 

[StanR]

MY Kubota MX5100 would pull a 9 shank pasture ripper.... I think that would be similiar. I have mostly hard clay.

 

[WouldWerker]

Thanks Stan. Do you have to use 4 wheel drive when you do?

 

[pjbci]

Im not sure what your calling a chisel plow. I see folks around with little light weight renovators and field cultivators and they call em chisel plows. A chisel plow is a heavy deep tillage tool. Im also not sure of the HP of your tractor but we used to pull a 7 shank chisel with a JD 4020. It has somewhere around 90hp. In hard ground that 7 shank would really pull the mess outta that tractor. Hope this helps you.

 

[Texan4Life]

Depends on how deep and how fast your want to go. I bet it could handle a 7 shank. if it turns out to be to much you could take two off and make it a 5 shank. I wanna say i read/heard somewhere than when trying to size a chisel plow to figure 7-10 HP per shank. and 10-15 for a ripper/sub soiler.

and yeah use 4x4 and 100% throttle, use your gears to regulate speed... our on row crop tractors we run 4x4 all the time, except when going down a paved road. I mean you could use 2wd but you would have excessive wheel slip... thats what 4x4 is for on a tractor -- putting all your power to the ground.

 

[flusher]

I was wondering if my '08 5525 could pull a 7 point chisel plow; anyone have experience with this?

-Chris, Liberty Hill, TX

I don't think my '08 5525 could handle that plow--assuming you mean a real chisel plow that's working deep (6" or more), not a shallow digging field cultivator. The 5525 has a 55 hp engine and probably about 45 hp on the drawbar which is kinda low for a real 7-point chisel plow. Too bad there's no U. of Nebraska test data for the Mahindra 5525 so we could know the actual drawbar hp. Mahindra either doesn't know this information or choses not to publish it in their so-called "complete" spec sheet for the 5525.

http://www.mahindrausa.com/pdfs/tractors/5525.pdf

Bummer.

 

[kf4uda]

As stated above it depends on what you are calling a chisel plow. In post #2 b y StanR, I call that a field cultivator or orchard plow. If that what you have or are looking at I believe your tractor would handle up to a 9 shank. I have what I call an actual chisel plow. My plow is an Athens model 156 7 shank. I pull it with a NH TD5030 which is 75hp 4WD. If I am chiseling ground that is worked every year it pulls fine. I have been chiseling some pasture ground that has not been worked in years and in some areas it is tough. The problem is not lack of power but lack of traction. I just have to feather the lift in those tough areas.

I would say that you you would have about the same results with a 5 shank of this plow type as I am having with the 7 shank.

 

[WouldWerker]

Thanks all. The pic you show, Chris, is what I was referring to. I, too, have heard you need around 10 hp per shank; so my 5525 might pull a 5 shank. Since all I want to do is re-sow grass, a field cultivator may be all I need... what happens when you hit a rock with those?