Plowing with my 1540...

[ratter]

I don't have any sod cutters on my (borrowed) plow either. These are me plowing our pumpkin patch last month with my 1433V. It goes pretty good but the ground is often wet and sloped so it can get hairy at times as you can see. I used a set of drag-behind disc harrows a few weeks after these pictures were taken. It worked ok but I borrowed my friend's Kuhn tiller and I have to say that has been the best tool I have ever used on that pumpkin patch! I was so impressed that I pressed him to sell it to me as he didn't use it any more... $100 later it was mine!

$100?!? I'm jealous...

The problem I had is that the sod is so thick and matted that even after I turned it over and let it sit for a couple weeks, my fairly light duty disc harrow couldn't completely chop it up. So I still had big weedy clumps everywhere that the disc would just float over. For the pumpkins, I didn't care. But I did a garden spot for my wife, and I wasn't pleased with that result. So I ended up taking my box blade and dragging all of the nasty weedy sod clumps down to one end of the garden. This left a very nice seed bed, albeit with a mountain of crap at the end.

Next time I'll try adding weight to the disc to see if that helps any, but I have a feeling that I'll get the same result anytime I work on a 'virgin' piece of land. After a couple years of working it maybe it will get broken up by the disc a little easier.

 

[DMF]

$100?!? I'm jealous...

Funny... your not the first person to tell me that...

Best deal I ever made... everyone has to get lucky once in a while, right?

 

[WilliamBos]

My Dad picked up a used Kubota ( turfbuster ) tiller a couple of years ago, and it is irreplaceable!! Does an amazing job, no matter the type of ground, or no matter how long it has been since or if it was worked up. Money well spent!!

Next addition will be a compact tractor, nothing older than the 1100 series. Don't want to gamble on the 1000 series, parts will be hard to come by, if not now, in the near future I imagine.

 

[BTDT]

Sorry for the belated response. Here's a pic of the plow...

That's a pretty ingenious mechanism for the tilt, never saw one like that.