Finally got to Plow

Finally got to Plow organic ground June 3. I got rained out this morning about 8:00 A.M. Severe Thunderstorm watch was just posted until 11:00 P.M. Ugh!

Pictures are slightly fuzzy I assume since I took them while moving.

Paul

I thought about you last Saturday. I was at a consignment sale and they had a Deere 5 bottom semimounted rollover plow. Nice paint and good bottoms but someone had welded all the trips so they would not trip. Left before it was sold but it was a very interesting piece. Tom

Nice looking job of plowing.---------Loren

That looks like some nice soil! Where are you located?

I agree ! Looks nice and dark and rich !

I am near La Crosse WI or Western WI. The soils here change a lot. Lower flats can have really nice soils you see here. Hillsides and even ridge tops can have some pretty nice soils in one area and heavy clay in another. I was on a ridgetop triangle field like that last night. Nice crumbly soil in one spot and in a few feet really heavy clay. The clay is pretty wet yet but it is June and it has to go if at all possible.

There is a lot of strip farming in this area due to the slops. The roll-over plow is perfect for that. It all needs to be plowed uphill. In this area the roll-over plow is thought of a strip farming tool. People don't equate it to the super flat surface irrigated fields many of you are familiar with. A roll-over plow is pretty rare around here because not much plowing is done any more and I suppose when plowing was in use the roll-over plow was to expensive for farmers.

There are springs coming out of the hillsides and ridge tops due to being so wet. I don't understand the underground hydraulics but water can be forced to the surface in the most unlikely places. I found one on that very field in the picture.

Wow, I would of liked to see that JD Semi-mount roll-over plow. I think I have seen a picture of one once before in a JD Brochure.

Thanks for the positive comments.

Paul

A link on the Geology in this area:

https://boingboing.net/2012/04/27/the-driftless-area-wisconsin.html

Paul

Looks good. I like plowing on the contour to .