Puma 155 plowing wet clay

Charlie M · Nov 13, 2014

Nice plowing job - looks like you got a good crop of sea gulls going there. I'm always amazed how they find plowed ground so quickly.

Tx Jim · Nov 13, 2014

Color of clay "across the pond" is certainly a different color than in Texas.

John B. · Nov 13, 2014

Is that a Nitrogen Filled Accumulator that's
plumbed into each bottom instead of using springs?

Allan in NE · Nov 13, 2014

None of my business, but your plow is running downhill.

Lift the hitch a little and those "rows" will disappear. Promise. :>)

Allan

WIZZO · Nov 13, 2014

BANDITFARMER · Nov 13, 2014

It is amazing to see how farming gets done around the country and the world from the people who post here. In my part of the country (SW Ohio) you would not dare to plow ground as wet as that appears, Unless you want to try to work up rock hard clods that wont break up when it dries. Still nice to see ground being plowed up for crops. Bandit

WIZZO · Nov 13, 2014

(quoted from post at 05:59:30 11/13/14) None of my business, but your plow is running downhill.

Lift the hitch a little and those "rows" will disappear. Promise. :&gt

Allan

The native rock here is Slate, hence the dark colour of the clay soil. There is only 4"-5" of top soil on this farm over the Slate bed rock.

This Puma is running on 600/65R32 rear tyres, and the outer edge of the rear tyre is crushing down the edge of the last furrow . At this shallow depth there is not enough soil depth to gather up enough soil with the leading body to throw & fill the extra wide open furrow even with the plow is set at its widest 18" furrow width.

Charlie M · Nov 13, 2014

What we call clay does seem to vary around the country. One thing it all has in common - when its dry its like concrete.

Texasmark1 · Nov 13, 2014

Yeah and it looks more like sandy loam to me. My Houston Black
wouldn't respond nearly as responsible and would be all gummed
up on the plow shares which is why you have to use rolling stock
here and moldboards are useless.

However, really nice job and helps to have enough HP to be able to
pull enough bottoms to get the job done in a timely manner.

Mark

MJ in the UK · Nov 13, 2014

Wizzo were in the UK is that tractor working as it is not the wet clay we get here in Nottinghamshire. MJ.

WIZZO · Nov 13, 2014

(quoted from post at 09:36:37 11/13/14) Wizzo were in the UK is that tractor working as it is not the wet clay we get here in Nottinghamshire. MJ.

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gtractorfan · Nov 13, 2014

Makes a big difference what time of the year. In the fall the ground has all winter to freeze and thaw and mellow.

Roy in UK · Nov 14, 2014

Or some of what we had in S. Yorkshire.... you could literally make bricks with that! We had one particular field that the according to my elders, the previous owner (he must have been an idiot) during the last war had hired a Fowler Gyrotiller run over it and it brought all the clay subsoil ( and several huge boulders) up to the top. It took many a year and hundreds of loads of farm yard manure to get that field back into good condition again!
What is this Limey on about?

MJ in the UK · Nov 14, 2014

Thanks for the vidio Roy, that was at Newby Hall tractor show and I was the commontator. MJ

Roy in UK · Nov 14, 2014

What a coincidence!

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