Spinner plow Question

Why don't they put coulters on all the bottoms on the spinner plows.(or roll over plows or whay ever they are called.

Wouldn't they pull easier with the furrow cut ahead of the bottom.

Just wondering Gary

Billy hit 'er right square on the head. You can certainly buy the coulters for all the bottoms, but most guys don't use any at all.

On 18" bottoms and larger, they are more or less a mute deal anyway because trash clearance is just not a problem. The only advantage would be the wear savings on the shins, but that would still be offset by all the weight/cost of extra coulters, shanks, clamps, etc.

Allan

You talk about a Massey 5 bottom on land spinner.

Don't believe I've ever seen an on land spinner.

Are they very common?

Gary

I'd just like to get the tractor out of the furrow and dual 'er up. The darned Masseys pull so easy, they allow capacity fer another bottom for any given size plow. It's really amazing just how easy they do pull; it's like night and day.

A 140 horse tractor can just play with a 5-bottom and actually put the thing down in the ground where it belongs too. :>)

Allan

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That feller needs a spinner and a rotary hoe! :>)

Allan

It really depends where you are standing.

Flood irrigation is just a totally different bird when it comes to methods used and to us old irrigated guys, those "half-plows" are really the "odd looking" ones. I just can't imagine plowing in a circle and leaving all those silly dead furrows. :>)

Yes, ya certainly know they are back there as far as the weight is concerned, but just for instance, this joker isn't nearly as heavy as my 7' rotary mower or 6-row-30" 3-point cultivator. They just give the appearance and "look" heavy.

Also, and just so I'm battin' a thousand here, gotta disagree on the cornstalks thing too. Experience has shown that plows just simply work better for trash clearance if ya just yank those coulters and throw 'em behind the tool shed to get 'em out of the way.

Now, spinners do have their disadvantages too.

Ya always gotta remember to "flip" the silly things at the end of the field because if ya don't, they'll drop 3' in the ground before ya even know what's going on and we're right back to and shackeled with that darned dead furrow that'll take 5 years to farm out. :>(

Just a view from my end of the field. :>)

Allan

This one can be yours fer somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 and I'll dicker. I wants me a Massey 5-bottom on-land spinner. :>)

Allan

I don't even know what you guys are talking about when you say "rocks". The closest rocky ground I've ever seen was up in North Dakota. Pretty sure those original settlers thought they had landed right back in Norway. :>)

This plow originally came from over in Wyoming in the sand. It is a darned good plow, but is in need of lathes, boards, shins and landsides. That sand over there cuts 'em up like a torch.

Betcha I can just go buy another plow for the price of repairs alone. :>)

Allan

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Not in a high-dewpoint climate. :) You just create an old-fashioned horse rake without big new large coulters on.

Last year I had 80+ mph microburst on the farm, north-south corn fieds were so bad even after chopping the stalks the plow still wanted to plug up.

Yup, I understand about the regional thing. I don't have a flat place on my whole farm to change headers on the combine. All top of river valley bumps. A dead furrow is a non-issue, don't even notice it in the big picture. :)

Do you run into problems with the govt with all plowing? Getting kinda pushy about that of late. Ripping (chisel, DMI, coulter/ shank rigs, zone tillage) has picked up around here.

--->Paul