A Great Day to be Plowing

[Robert_in_NY]

I work in Fulton (if not familiar near Syracuse) at an Agway like store. My boss use to work at the store back when Agway owned it and ran the fertilizer blend plant. When they went under he started it under is own business name Lee's Agri-Tech. We mainly custom blend fertilzers for farmers, spread lime and fertilizer, sell seed, feed, and have retail stuff just like Agway. I have worked there going on 4 years. My boss has over 40 years of knowledge and experience in plant health and fertility. Everyone from my neck of the woods comes to him for advice.
I can't remember where we get or lime from now but we use to get it from walworth, ny, but like I said in last post the env was bad. It would cost more for the lime because you would have to put more on.

I can't remember the ENV on the lime we got but LaFarge is only 40 miles away so trucking isn't too bad. I checked the weigh slips to see if it was on there but it wasn't. I will ask my friend again when I talk to him Monday.

I make it to Syracuse once or twice a year but I don't recall ever going to Fulton. I am about half way between Buffalo and the PA line if you take the 90 it crosses thru our land.

 

[Renze]

In order for my plow to turn the soil over well I need to move along a decent speed. If I go slow the furrows just stand on their side and the last furrow tends to fall back down in a lot of spots.

If you need as much speed as seen in the video, i get my doubts about your plough... I see people at ploughing matches all the time, crawling very slowly over the field and turning the sod absolutely perfect... if your plough cant do that at normal speeds, there must be something wrong...

For me, we allways cultivate first so we never really have to rip a sod when ploughing.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

If you need as much speed as seen in the video, i get my doubts about your plough... I see people at ploughing matches all the time, crawling very slowly over the field and turning the sod absolutely perfect... if your plough cant do that at normal speeds, there must be something wrong...

For me, we allways cultivate first so we never really have to rip a sod when ploughing.

Our plows are designed to be high speed plows. Both plows I use work the same way. The 3-14 is an International Super Chief and the 4-16 is a Massey Ferguson 880. If you plow slow they don't turn the furrow over as well. Plow at the speed they are designed for then they work great.

But depending on what type of soil I am plowing the plow works better or worse. Some soils I can plow slow and have great results, other soils I can plow fast and not have great results (clay).

 

[Renze]

But depending on what type of soil I am plowing the plow works better or worse. Some soils I can plow slow and have great results, other soils I can plow fast and not have great results (clay).

Then i guess you have a moldboard for sand soil, not the special clay ones.
Clay moldboards have much more curl, to turn over the tough clay. Sand will roll over on its own when the soil beam is lifted up and turned halfway.

 

[Renze]

But depending on what type of soil I am plowing the plow works better or worse. Some soils I can plow slow and have great results, other soils I can plow fast and not have great results (clay).

Then i guess you have a moldboard for sand soil, not the special clay ones.
Clay moldboards have much more curl, to turn over the tough clay. Sand will roll over on its own when the soil beam is lifted up and turned halfway.

Look at this Kverneland PDF doc, page 13:
http://kverneland.papirfly.no/newsread/ReadImage.aspx?quality=10&docid=5960

 

[Robert_in_NY]

My plows do not have much of a selection when it comes to moldboards. This is why I would love to buy a nice Kverneland some day.

Our ground here is very different across each field. There are pockets of clay, sand, gravel...... basically, as you plow across a 20 acre field you will find 3-4 different types of soil. The last field I plowed was a lot of fun as the bottom was a heavy clay yet the top was a real loose loam that broke up so nice just from being turned over you didn't need to disc it. Then there was a gravel pocket on the other side.

 

[Renze]

Dont just focus on Kverneland, Kuhn also builds good plougs:
KUHN Group - English - Mounted reversible ploughs

and Lemken also has great ploughs
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This is a movie of a Dutch dealer, of a Kverneland plough on very heavy clay:
YouTube - Kverneland Twister ploeg

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Kuhn and Lemken do not sell their plows over here that I know of. If they do I have never seen a dealer locally for one.

 

[Renze]

Kuhn owns the Knight company (from the spreaders and TMR mixers)
The ploughs division used to be Huard.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Kuhn owns the Knight company (from the spreaders and TMR mixers)
The ploughs division used to be Huard.

I didn't know their plows (don't you love how we spell plow different ) were Huard. But I have never seen one here so I would have to ask around to see if one of the Kuhn hay equipment dealers can import one. But then all the parts would have to be shipped over from Europe as no one stocks them over here.

Either way, I appreciate the added options for when I decided to upgrade.