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The End Of A Era----

big tee

big tee

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Saw this-Sad but a sign of the times---Tee
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Seems hard to believe, but I guess hardly anyone uses a moldboard plow anymore.

A lot of things have changed. This week I mounted my 4 row front mount cultivator on my John Deere A for a machinery display tomorrow. As I was driving it to the place yesterday I was thinking---when is the last time anyone saw one of THOSE? Used to be one in every field this time of year!
 
Chisel plow has been the plow of choice in my area,been a long time since I have seen anyone moldboard plow anything except a garden.Always hated plowing with them.
 
A few used around here but not many. I may moldboard plow 10 acres of ground to prepare for winter wheat later this year. Probably been close to 15 years since I last moldboard plowed anything. Moldboarding has been recommended to deal with heavy populations of marestail and waterhemp and the one neighbor did that that last year or so he farmed.
 
To be honest, I didn't even know you could still get a new one. That part actually kind of surprises me. My guess would of been, no already.

A guy rarely even sees terraces plowed around here anymore, in my area.
 
No clue you could still buy a Deere one, except maybe a reversible one. The few around here that might plow aren't the type to buy something new anyway.
 
I think the idea of the chisel is to loosen the soil but keep the top soil on top like happens with no-till planting. Around here in Houston Black Clay, the rollling disc is the implement of choice. BTOs especially run them because they only disturb the top few inches yet get rid of any undesired growth. Some use spring fingers for smoothing after the last gang.
 
When one has sod or ground with a lot of stubble, the plow is the best implement to use hands down. Nothing more infuriating than making lumps of trash in a field from trying to run a field Cultivator across. There is no time or fuel saved by not plowing in this situation and the field ends up in much better shape.
 
Sounds like Deere is eliminating some slow selling products and is shifting its limited resources into making the products that are in demand.
 
I hadn't seen it in years either - then I saw a guy cultivating beans on my way home last night. It looked like an 8 row rear mount cultivator. With the decline in the effectiveness in Roundup & similar chemicals the old school method of removing weeds is coming back. Cultivating 15 rows with 12-14 wide tractor tires is going to take some finesse.
 
Nothing new here. Used to be able to buy a two row combine or a one row corn picker new-- just saying. All the manufacturers have changed what they offer.
 
We had Deere plows--The later ones weren't too bad--they copied IH's 700-710's--would hate to go back though!!
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I had a Deere 3200 6-18's hooked to a 7020

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My Dad pulled 10-18's with his 8630

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Dad had a WC before my time
 
I hated the six row Ford cultivator. Two miles an hour monotony. Sore neck from looking back. Almost too wide for our gates. I dont miss that thing at all.
 
We always had front mount cultivators welded up versions of the 2 row units that mounted on Hs and Ms. With some re enforcement they were turned into 6 row cultivators. You would look ahead and down instead of looking back and down. They were much easier to keep in a row with them being mid mounted. Literally thousands of hours spent cultivating milo and corn with a diesel 460 and a gas 350. We would fight over the 460 because it had a AM radio mounted on it.
 
My great uncle said when steel moldboard plows first came out the farmers swore the steel would poison the soil.
 
A farmer here in town pretty much bled green.Lots of two cylinders,then in later years a 2510 and a 5010.Then a 2640 and a 2840.He wouldn't have a JD plow.He always said the JD had no character under it.So he used Internationals.At some point he bought a Kvernland from us,he really liked that one.
 
I was at a meeting earlier this week talking to a guy, how much rain did you get? He wonders and is looking at ground to wonder if the water we have sitting in fields, and we are drained, is because of chisel and rez til fall prep techniques. He wonders if the mould board plow, in turning the ground over, didn't open it up to break apart better in the spring. Chisel and reztil pick the ground up to drop it and break it with the heavy coulters. Is it to quick to cement back into place noticeably with the rain we are getting?
 
The old moldboard is still the best thing for weed control and if you turn the furrows up the hill likely the best thing for erosion control.
 
These days I am just running a disc when I reseed a hayfield. Seems to work. I plowed this field about 7 years ago. 3 bottom JD plow inherited from my uncle he used in the 70s. But seriously, New Holland stopped making rollabar rakes and JD stopped making plows.
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If you spray 24D before the marestail shoots the stem upward it will kill it for you. If you can apply Metribuzin preemerge in soybeans it will keep marestail under control. We plan to spray post plant preemerge so it can set on the filed like an unfettered blanket. Works for the marestail quite well. I really prefer Liberty or Ignite as it was called at some times in the past. Both the same thing just they didn't decide on the name for several years and it changed back and forth.
 
It was either 1969 or 1970. My dad was pretty proud of his new MF 1130 diesel and its six bottom plow. Also bought a big MF disc. And a Krause chisel plow. If the chisel plow was dropped too deep , it would lift the front wheels of the 1130. We were plowing virgin prairie. Wish I had more pictures from back then. I was in first grade.
 
Never had any later plows and earlier Deere were bestm metter than The Oliver I had. And I had a chisel plow for a while that was when I was renting a farm the goverment called highly eroadable ground, not allowed to boldboard. As soon as I quit farming that farm the chisel went away. Worst Idea I had come across. That is why weeds are so much worse that years ago.
 
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