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Plowed and disked a 19 acre Hayfield, gonna reseed.Took about twelve hours to plow with a IH656D and a Deere model 45 3x14 plow.First pass with Oliver model 241 10 foot disk took about four and a half hours.Did I do good?lol.
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Looks just fine . 12 hours might seem like a long time but , I remember my Dad telling me how it was before he got a tractor. My father and Grandfather would both go out with a team and a single furrow plough and plough one acre each every day.So it would have taken them nine and a half days to do what you did with your tractor in 12 hours,seems fast now doesn't it .And a lot less walking too !
 
What is it you're going to plant you don't have there now? I'd of never torn it up just cut it very close and sod drilled in what seed I wanted.It'll all be for naught anyway if you don't soil test and add nutrients according to what you're going to plant.
 
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"Only time will tell" "The proof is in the pudding" It takes a few years to be able to tell if the "bottom" that you created as you plowed is level. Though you get the top nice and level before seeding, if your plow front to back or side to side level is off by more than a couple inches, after a few years of settling find "waves" as you drive across perpendicular to the direction of plowing.
 
Think you did fine. My now deceased great-uncle used to figure 40 acres in a day plowing with a 5-16 JD plow (can't remember the model) behind a 4020.
 
Grandpas 656 gas pulling 4 16s would plow two acres per hour. The 4020 mentioned on the post musta been working 18 hour days 😉
 
Pretty common to figure 1/2 acre per hr, per bottom. Of course, efficiency improves with really large plow.
 
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