breaking ground, right way/wrong way

jsfarmall · Jan 24, 2015

I have a cub and a breaking plow, and a mounted 1 row cultivator. First question is what would be a good addition to my tools. I also have a garden tiller, given the fact I have 2 small gardens.

Next question is what is the right way and wrong way to work a breaking plow. Mine throws to the right side.

Next is there a way to successfully eliminate the furrow on the last pass of breaking ground? I do understand that could be from the beginning of my first pass.

DeltaRed · Jan 24, 2015

You plow in 'lands'.Someone here who plows with a oneway(I use a twoway) plow can show pics and explain.to fill the last I furrow,I turn and throw the last pass(replow) or two back into the last furrow.Then its easy to work it shut.

Bret4207 · Jan 25, 2015

When you disc and work the ground up the furrow should fill in as much as it ever will. It will never be the same level as the unplowed land, anymore than the part you till will be either. If the furrow isn't filling in, you need to work the ground more in that section.

You get more of a furrow on the outside edge if you plow from the inside out. If you start on the outside and plow in there's no outside furrow, but there is one in the center.

wellmax99 · Jan 25, 2015

one way is to throw the ground the the center one season, then the next year, throw the ground to the outside and that will leave the open furrow in the center of the field.

then just disc it in and level it the best you can.

only other way is to buy yourself a tractor tiller and that way the ground will be level.

in this small garden spot I throw the ground one way, then next plowing, I throw the ground the other way, so far it works for me.
disc and harrow it as level as I can.

someday, I plan to have a tractor tiller and never look back.

wellmax99 · Jan 25, 2015

might buy you a small pull type disc,
looks like its doing a good job behind this cub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnwa35NGOQ

jsfarmall · Jan 25, 2015

Yeah I was thinkin I need me a disc. Or maybe even a drag tiller and build a hitch for the tractor. My small garden is just right for my garden tiller. My corn patch is bit big for it. Perfect for my tractor.

Bret4207 · Jan 26, 2015

You are going to have a time finding an EFFECTIVE disc small enough for a Cub. There are lots of ineffective small discs out there though. You might be better off with a section of spring tooth harrow.

wellmax99 · Jan 26, 2015

you may be right, that is why I showed him the pull type disc.

my neighbor bought a brand new cub in 1956 or 1957, it came with plow, cultivator and small single gang pickup disc.

story was he tried the disc one time and did not like it. when he pasted and the tractor was sold many years later, the little disc was still sitting in the barn, in front of the tractor, had never been used again.

he always used a small pull type team disc,

that is why I suggested the small pull type disc, no one around us, when I was growing up, had a spring tooth cultivator.

Bret4207 · Jan 26, 2015

In sand, like in that video, a Cub might pull a tandem disc 4 foot wide. In clayey ground...not so much. If it was me I'd plow with the Cub then till it. A cub a great cultivation tractor but not so much for heavier field work. The old guy with the Cub that plowed gardens where I grew up always drug a section of spring tooth after plowing. Seemed to work pretty good.

Rusty wheel · Jan 28, 2015

We had a cub on the farm for gardening and light farm work. We used a 4 foot tandem disc behind it and it did a really good job. We always drug the plowed ground ahead of the disc. The tractor had oversize tires on it and wheel weights. Miss those days.

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