Old moldobard plow and cultipacker

[MarlandS]

Farmwithjunk, you want to come help me this year?

Couple of "funny" plowing stories.(Readers Digest version) One of the boys started plowing a 3 cornered patch, ended up with his furrow nearly doing a 180 by the time he was done.

A 160 acre field with around 30 backs and 30 deads. Next field , a 120, 2 back furrows.

Love it when they trip out 16 rows from the fence and trip in 2 rows from it always with a lonnnnnggg furrow.

"just plow the "inside" until the furrows almost touch, I'll finish it" leads to "I made it easy for you, I put both furrows on top of eachother" Sure enough a furrows two feet deep x 2 feet wide wide, I about had to get a bull dozer to backfill those.

Plowing an Art? 100% agreement.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Farmwithjunk, you want to come help me this year?

Couple of "funny" plowing stories.(Readers Digest version) One of the boys started plowing a 3 cornered patch, ended up with his furrow nearly doing a 180 by the time he was done.

A 160 acre field with around 30 backs and 30 deads. Next field , a 120, 2 back furrows.

Love it when they trip out 16 rows from the fence and trip in 2 rows from it always with a lonnnnnggg furrow.

"just plow the "inside" until the furrows almost touch, I'll finish it" leads to "I made it easy for you, I put both furrows on top of eachother" Sure enough a furrows two feet deep x 2 feet wide wide, I about had to get a bull dozer to backfill those.

Plowing an Art? 100% agreement.

Do you fall plow? Or in the spring? Either way, I'd LOVE to spend some time in a big field on a big tractor (again). I grew up doing just that. When I started farming, it was small scale, and kept getting smaller. Last corn crop was just under 60 acres. That was well after no-till took over. Being an old stick-in-the-mud, I insisted on plowing even that little bit. I'll drag out my 3-bottom or 2-bottom plows for any good excuse these days. (i.e. our garden, the church's corn maze, or just a few of us old farts get together for a plow day every fall.)

 

[MarlandS]

We fall plow, JD 4640 with a Deere 2700 6 18's and an 8100 with a JD 2800 6 bottom variable width, 10 inches deep and 5.5 mph.

Rumor is, the boss, I'm a working manager(which means he gets the glory and I do the work) is retiring. He's 81 and has health issues so I'll let you know if you can come up and do some rounds (or an 80 or as much as you want).

 

[Farmwithjunk]

We fall plow, JD 4640 with a Deere 2700 6 18's and an 8100 with a JD 2800 6 bottom variable width, 10 inches deep and 5.5 mph.

Rumor is, the boss, I'm a working manager(which means he gets the glory and I do the work) is retiring. He's 81 and has health issues so I'll let you know if you can come up and do some rounds (or an 80 or as much as you want).

I casually mentioned to the Mrs, my desire to take a short vacation and spend it in a tractor cab, plowing for hours on end. She gave me "THAT LOOK".

Women..... They just don't get it sometimes.

Dad had a 4840 that I logged a few hours in. If you were to plow 10" deep here, you'd be turning up limestone rocks the size of a tractor.

MAN! You got me wanting to plow something NOW!

 

[Slamfire]

No limestone rocks here, just sandstone slabs about the thickness of a Tom Clancy hardback. I must confess I knew a whole lot more about plowing at age 18 than I did at 64.

 

[MarlandS]

Most of our topsoil is 2 foot thick, some clayish knobs thrown in for fun. Oh and the rocks, we're on the north side of a moraine, as the glaciers left they dropped some doozies and the fun part is you never know when or where you'll "find" one.

Ok it's time for a game... close your eyes and think about plowing and the smell of the soil that only plowing can make.. smells almost as good as fresh mown hay doesn't it?

 

[TellGRBill]

I have a stretch of ground that I have shaped to be a watershed for a pond on our farm. I have planted grass on this stretch of ground and now, after the grass matures and is mowed, I am considering regularly running a cultipacker over the ground in the direction of the pond to keep the ground smooth and packed to better shed water. I have never used a cultipacker and need some experienced opinions about using a cultipacker for this use.