Chisel Plow or Moldboard?

1130Leo

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I am in the process of trying to acquire equipment as i can. This year, trying to find a plow. Would be using my 1066 Black stripe with Duals, need help determining what I should look for? Moldboard Plow or Chisel plow? What type and how big? I think for a moldboard I would not want to go bigger than a 5 bottom but trailer type hitch???
 
1130Leo, IMO....A 13 or 15,shank 3 pt chisel plow. Why..... You didn't elaborate on the type of operation you are running. But here in Central Texas a Chisel plow is the most versatile of implements. Depending on what operation you are doing....Twisted shovels to stir the soil, Points to rip, 14in sweeps for more of a finishing operation, sure-enough when you pull a pipe drag to bust up clods with spike tooth harrows attached to level out too!
IMO if I was to only own 1 piece of tillage equipment it would be a 3pt chisel plow!
We just don't have use for moldboards down here. Some folks do use them to rebuild terraces!
Disk and chisel plow are the norm! Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.
 
Depends where you are and what you are trying to do. Not many moldboard here now. Still a lot use a chisel plow. A 7 tooth coulter chisel (glencoe soil saver) would work nice behind your tractor, but costs a good bit more than a 3 pt chisel.
Josh
 
From what I have been seeing around here the trailer type is going to be less expensive but I have a semi-mount rollover with good high clearance. Picked up a 7 point Glencoe Soilsaver disk chisel this past fall. Going to give that a try also and see how it goes. Hereabouts there has been talk of pest problems in no-till and the moldy plows are going up in price a little.
 
John, I have about 60 acres of tillable land, and grow mostly hay. I have been working with minimal tools and have about 40 acres of alfalfa that I planted with just a 26 foot tripple K, which has left me with a very bumpy 40 acres of hay, need to work the other 20 this year and seed to be able to start ripping up the existing and re-seeding on a reasonable rotation. I now have a packer, and still need a plow and a disc, at least that is what I think I need. My only real reference if from growing up on a dairy farm and what my dad had, of course he sold everything long ago and he's gone so I can't ask him.
 
For plowing sod and making the smoothest possible seedbed for new sod, I'd use a moldboard plow, followed by some secondary tillage.

The suggestion of a semi-mounted is good.
 
For mostly sod a molboard plow is probably best, there are times a chisel would be nice but you'd want the molboard more often.

A 1066 here in my clay has enough with a 4 bottom plow.

But most people have easier soil so a 5 bottom might work.

On the other hand, sod you bale and pack down hard can take a lot more power to plow up.... People always want the biggest plow they can possibly get, then rip the guts out of their old tractor that isn't quite factory new any more. You are plowing mqybe 10 acres a year on your rotation, why beat the crap out of your tractor with a big plow.....

A semi mounted plow is a good thing.

Paul
 
I use a chisel plow and disc chisel, so I haven"t plowed for years, but for your 60 acres, with sod, I"d buy a 4-18 moldboard plow (auto reset if you have rocks), cut the plowed sod with a disc, and then hit it with a field cultivator with a tine harrow behind. I"m not a fan of discs that all the newbies think they need...since they pack the soil, along with ridging it...vs a FC which digs it loose. If I couldn"t afford the disc, a couple passes with the FC would be fine, and give a better seedbed.

I run a 12 shank White disc chisel behind a JD 4450 MFWD, rated 145 hp, cranks 190. I run the 12 shank Glencoe chisel in bean ground with a JD 4240, rated 110, cranks 125 hp. Clay soil, similar to what paul farms, about 90 miles North.
 

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