Chisel Plow on TN75

hard_yakka · Mar 25, 2004

Went ahead and got a chisel plow vs bottom plow here's the pictures...

hard_yakka · Mar 25, 2004

And another shot

Chuck_Lind · Mar 25, 2004

Nice unit you got there for your TN75. I recently bought a TN65 and I'm trying to choose between a chisel plow or a moldboard plow. I live in central Pennsylvania and there's rocks in them thar hills!!!

Anyone have experience of a chisel vs. a moldboard plow on the east coast?

Thanks for your help...CL

AndyMA · Mar 25, 2004

The one thing I don't see in Scott's pictures are rocks. In my fields which are typical New England bolder fields I don't think that plow would last a day without years of derocking. I could be wrong as I've never actually tried one on my TN. When I've run a mold board through some of my fields it still has trouble but at least it tend to dig the rocks out. I then go back over it with my rock forks and pick up the "little" jewels. What would happen with the Chisel, would the springs just let the tines bounce over each rock. They just don't level rugged enough to move the rocks have. Scott could you give ussome input on how many rocks your fields have. It does look like it does a nice job.

Andy

gone · Mar 25, 2004

the part i though about is it will lossen ground deep but, won't turn under trash trash being stalks or sod veggatble remanes and so on. molboard plows turn under and alow you to harrow a nice soil finish right away. and i think if you hooked a piece of ledge like we have in N.E. it would twist like a pretzel. reeset plows get a work out here,sheer pin plows keep hardware sales up too.

hard_yakka · Mar 26, 2004

Not a lot of rocks but then this stuff turns into concrete about the 1st of July. Spring loaded shanks haven't had that much of a work out. Attached a picture of the plowed field.

rambler · Mar 30, 2004

A molboard plow is good for turning under crop residue, cutting off deep perenial roots, and breaking up sod type ground.

A chisel plow is good for going a little deeper, breaking up hard-pan (if not too deep) or tight clay soils, stirring in fertilizer, and keeping some cover on the soil for those soils that want to wash or blow away.

Each has a purpose, depending what you are trying to accomplish.

The springs & the springy steel of the shank itself should handle rocks better than a molboard plow if it's designed right.

The 'new' technology of farm tillage is slot tillage. These are very thin shanks that go deeper than a chisel plow, and shatter very lightly through the hardpan, but leave the top nearly unmolested. This is to eliminate erosion from wind & water, and allow most of the ground to be a hard traffic-bearing soil structure from year to year, with thin fractures in it to allow roots, rain, & nutrients to get in deeper. I'm not sure how these thin designs will handle rocks, as they are designed to cut the soil, rather than shatter it like a chisel plow.

--->Paul