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SVcummins · Sep 26, 2018

Plowed for a little while it?s going to take a lot more plowing to shine these moldboards

Leroy · Sep 26, 2018

Could not be plowing here, we have water standing.

flying belgian · Sep 26, 2018

With that dry ground they will shine up faster then you think.

old smokey · Sep 26, 2018

putting a little diesel fuel on those moldboards will help with the shining up

ArleninOr · Sep 26, 2018

Subsoiling here and it is as dry here as you. Pulling 3 shank and pulling up dirt that looks like chunks of concrete.

SVcummins · Sep 26, 2018

That?s amazing we have had two storms since May and they disappeared as fast they showed up we got an inch each time but they never made a dent in the dry ground

SVcummins · Sep 26, 2018

I never thought Of that I did take the flap wheel to them and soaked them in liquid wrench

Traditional Farmer · Sep 27, 2018

Brake fluid will cut rust pretty good.

jddrawbar · Sep 27, 2018

Now that is DRY!

Butch(OH) · Sep 27, 2018

I have shined up many plows over the years, Expert? Nope but I can help you some based upon mistakes I made. Do not remove the rust with chemical rust removers, the rust down in the pits hurts nothing and in fact helps ease the dirt flow across the moldboard. If you have a 7" grinder great, if not a 4" will do but you need a flex backing for it that takes paper or cloth backed disks. You also need one very course grit disk for each bottom you want to clean up. I use the coarsest ones they have at the store, usually 36 or 24 grit. Starting out you work the entire moldboard down with the disk, do not concentrate on one area and dont fret about scratching The steel is glass hard and quickly dulls the disk and as that happens the disk looses it ability to cut it begins to polish. You quit when it feels slick when you run a gloved hand across it, not when it looks shiny as you will never get there, that requires using the plow. Replace the disk with a new one and go to next bottom. A 3 bottom plow would take me about an hour with my 7" grinder.

I am envious of the wide open spaces where you live!!

matthies · Sep 27, 2018

Why are you throwing the dirt against the fence, we have always left the dead furrow along the fence the first round and then went started the field?

BarnyardEngineering · Sep 27, 2018

You have to switch directions each time you plow. Fill in the dead furrow you made the previous time. Or else the dead furrow turns into a dead ditch and eventually a dead ravine. Sometimes that means throwing dirt against the fence. Sometimes that means pulling dirt away from the fence.

My grandfather had a field like that. There was some reason it was inconvenient to plow it the opposite way, so he would plow it the same way every year. Eventually it looked more like a dry pond than a field.

rustyfarmall · Sep 27, 2018

(quoted from post at 05:52:17 09/27/18) Why are you throwing the dirt against the fence, we have always left the dead furrow along the fence the first round and then went started the field?

We always tried to alternate from one year to the next. That way we didn't end up with a ditch right next to the fence, or a ditch out in the middle of the field.

Adirondack case guy · Sep 27, 2018

As dry as that dirt is, you won't have to spend a lot of seat time until they are well shined up.
Loren

TomA in CA · Sep 27, 2018

I was near the ocean so the rust was really bad. The soil was black clay so it was real gumbo. It would take 50-100 acres to shine a plow. I started painting rusty plows with graphite paint. The rustier the plow, the better it sticks. The worst gumbo would immediately start scouring. When the paint wore off the plow would shine.

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