BlackThumbHomesteader
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And getting bogged down, making countless adjustments, hanging up on shallow root beds.
I just had a heck of a time getting my first field plowed yesterday! My property was a hay farm long ago, before it was parcelled out a bit, and the lack of land management by the owners from then to now really shows. I can not tell you how many glass and plastic bottles, old timbers, truck drum brakes, hunks of unidentifiable metal, and such that I had to try and plow through. Combine all that with the fact that it was my first actual time plowing and it was 8 hours of unreasonably hard work.
Getting the plow dimensions correct was not as simple a process as I'd hoped and my furrows are inconsistent due to rapidly changing elevation. I'd say about 60% of my effort looks like it should but I'll not fret. I'm just happy to have a strong tractor and the ability to put it in the dirt. Maybe once the disc runs through it I'll have less of a time of it come fall.
I just had a heck of a time getting my first field plowed yesterday! My property was a hay farm long ago, before it was parcelled out a bit, and the lack of land management by the owners from then to now really shows. I can not tell you how many glass and plastic bottles, old timbers, truck drum brakes, hunks of unidentifiable metal, and such that I had to try and plow through. Combine all that with the fact that it was my first actual time plowing and it was 8 hours of unreasonably hard work.
Getting the plow dimensions correct was not as simple a process as I'd hoped and my furrows are inconsistent due to rapidly changing elevation. I'd say about 60% of my effort looks like it should but I'll not fret. I'm just happy to have a strong tractor and the ability to put it in the dirt. Maybe once the disc runs through it I'll have less of a time of it come fall.
