First time plowing

Christos · Apr 15, 2013

Well last week I went and bought a plow and used it to plow my garden. It's basically a basket case plow but surprisingly it did pretty well. I've bought two N bottoms to replace the A bottoms, however, I was impressed how much the blacksmith shares seemed to wear better over time than the economy shares that replaced them.

Anyways, here are two pictures - the plow is out of adjustment but I had fun. I can't wait to swap out the bottoms and get everything ready to plow up the fields.

Christos

Anonymous-0 · Apr 15, 2013

not meaning to be critical but seems to me a lot of folks are plowing ground that's pretty wet makes it tough to work it down,

Texasmark1 · Apr 15, 2013

I just did but I had deep chiseled it with 2" chisels on about 10" spacing or something like that last fall and let it lay by. Reason was to hold any moisture I got over the winter.

That happened and about 3 weeks ago I sprayed it good with 24d to kill the volunteer broadleafs.

Then 2 or 3 days ago I went diagonally over it with the cultivator I posted and the combination plus the spring fingers made the soil nice and smooth and planting ready. The mixing of the dry top with the wet kept it from caking and it. However damp, not actually wet in this instance would be more like it for me which is manageable as I did.

Looks like Mr. KJ is in sandy loam and I don't know how that could possibly be a problem unless it's so wet the tractor sinks.

Mark

Texasmark1 · Apr 15, 2013

Man that is a professional job. Grin

I doubt that anyone that frequents this site has any earthly idea
as to the mess I made the first time I tried to use a moldboard in
clay that was dry and hadn't seen steel in 20+ years.

The tractor was a fairly worn Farmall Super A and I don't
remember the makeup of the interconnect of the plow or the
tractor but I got it connected.

It had no coulter which would have helped make some
semblance of a straight line and prevented some of the big
chunks breaking loose .

The dry clay just came up in chunks and I couldn't put the right
tire in the rut because the plow was not laterally secured and the
chunks fell where they may, all over the place. Besides
remembering back, I'm not sure I knew what to do the the right
tire anyway.

It was a total mess. It looked like a piece of tablet paper you
gave to a 2 year old with a pencil and watched what happened.

Mark

donjr · Apr 16, 2013

You didn't do bad, boy. There was some IDIOT on here a few weeks ago on u-tube 'teaching' folks how to plow. He didn't know that you put the right wheel in the last furrow. What a mess.....

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