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dfarmann

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My father never had any rymne or reason for the way he struck out lands when plowing. He would have dead furrows next to dead
furrows and the same with back furrows.

My question is what is the correct distance to stay away from the fence when throwing the soil to the fence and same question if
throwing it away from the fence.

Maybe I should ask the question this way, "How wide should a land be" 40, 50 rows?

I now have a nice square 160 acres with the buildings in one corner, and I want to have a standard way to plow it, something I
will remember and follow every year.

Thank You for your help!
 
Depends on the size of the plow to some extent. When I was plowing with a two bottom,I plowed a lot narrower lands than with a 5. I could travel a longer distance and do it fewer times with a larger plow.
 
With a semi mounted plow when I plow to the fence you can after your done plowing you can come back along the fence and level it off by plowing in a little tricky put it makes a nice job with practice. Another thing is with a semi mounted you don't have to put the front all the way down just skim it then drop all the way on the second pass.
 
I always felt comfortable with making about 8-10 rounds per land. Also depends on field size and shape, but most of mine are quarter to half mile long.
 
on a 40 rod wide field the most dead furrows I will have is two, it can be done with one if a person wants to run a little more on the ends, on smaller 3 sided fields I often plow them round and round starting at the outside, I don't throw dirt onto the fence ridge when throwing dirt out but I plow them out as close to the posts as I can when plowing away from a fence
 
So if I understand correctly, You would strike out a land in the middle of the field, plow around it till it was 70 rows (38" rows) wide then go to the outsides and throw the dirt to the fence and then those two areas would be 70 rows wide.

So then you would have three areas 13.33 acres. One Back Furrow and Tow Dead Furrows.

Thank you for the help.
 
From a john deere book.
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