Plow procedure questions, FWJ and all

[suncoast]

www.ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals/messages/164.htmlI need to level (smooth) an area of our property and was wanting to use a 3 bottom plow. All of the other areas I have done to this point has been with a disc after spraying, but it takes me many passes and it still seems to leave trash on top. Here in central Florida row crops (strawberries & blueberries mainly) are the norm and bottom plows are unheard of. Discs are used because the soil is a sandy loam and it turns pretty easily. The berrie farmers use JD 70 & 80 series tractors to pull much larger discs (offset) than mine. I have a 7' center pivot with 18" discs. I wanted to ask about opening and finishing the land with my bottom plow. The attachment is "ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals/messages/164.html" if it doesn't open for you. I first saved this to a file on my desktop but then it would not upload here? I could also use advice on how you folks usually get pages & docs to load here. I would like to post more often but don't have success in this area. Anyway, starting on page 10 of this plow book it shows different ways to plow. I don't understand on page 12 the areas labeled "back furrow" which direction the plow should be running? The diagram at the bottom of page 13 also has a back furrow. There is some good information on plowing in this book. I would appreciate some further clarification from everyone who would like to share their knowledge. I want to also send a big thankyou to Larry Gugliotta (GuglioLS) for helping me with a project recently! There are some very good people on this site and a wealth of knowlege we can all share. Thanks in advance for any help. Gene

 

[suncoast]

The attachment at the bottom won't open (it's too large I think), But the link at the intro is correct. Take a look, it's good info.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

File won't open....I get a message telling me file is corrupted.

 

[lrunge]

It's a zip file. Downlaod free copy of Winzip and you can unzip it. I opened it and it is the old Fergeson plow manual.

 

[GreenMtns]

These are the pages I get from the manual with "back furrow" shown. I have that book and it only has 12 pages in it. I think these are what you want.

 

[Egon]

Figure 13 the plough is running in the directions of the arrows at the outside. Further into the ploughing sequence the arrows have been omitted.

Most people would have omitted the plouged Headland as this would be too rough for nice driving over. They would have done this after the the main field was plouged or just left it as headland.

Figure 15 shows the Ploughing starting in the center of the field and one just keeps making the square larger by going in a clockwise direction.