I help my neighbor plow his garden a few weeks back

ncpapaul · Apr 20, 2011

I always help my neighbor with his garden prep, this was April 9th. Paul in Mississippi

mkirsch · Apr 20, 2011

Where's the plow? I see a disk harrow, and a row-crop cultivator. No plow...

Looks like you did a nice job stirring up the soil, but you didn't "plow" if there's no plow.

ldj · Apr 20, 2011

IMHO a disk is a plow. 1 of many types.

rrlund · Apr 20, 2011

Wasn't it Pat Paulson who used to say "picky,picky,picky"? LOL

Ultradog MN · Apr 20, 2011

Great photos Paul.
Thanks.

Ken-Pa · Apr 20, 2011

Not really ! A plow will turn the soil about 3"-6" deep depending on the settings . That"s where you get better soil .Then you run your disc over the freshly plowed soil to break it up smooth . Your Disc will only scarf the sod roughly 2" deep . But city farmers have their own method & as long as you"re happy I am . God bless

SouthernFarmall · Apr 20, 2011

As to the disk/plow debate: In my opinion, he has a disk, not a plow. Of course, some people call disks "disk plows", so I guess it doesn't make much difference. As Ken said, a plow will work the soil deeper (he said 3-6 inches, but in my neck of the woods we go 7-10), but a disk is much better for mellowing out the soil soon before planting.
Anyway, nice pictures! SF

DownSouth · Apr 20, 2011

mkirsch,
It's always beyond me why someone like you has to even bother replying the way you did. The man took some time to post some wonderful pictures for others to enjoy, and you insist upon belittling what he had to say.
Well sir, here is MY reply to you. And yes I feel you deserve it.

Where's the plow? I see a disk harrow, and a row-crop cultivator. No plow...

Looks like you did a nice job stirring up the soil, but you didn't "plow" if there's no plow.

Where's the brain? I see words, and hear bulls**t. No brain...

Looks lie you did a nice job of stirring up Paul and others, but if you don't have a "brain", then there's no brain.

Poof.

DownSouth · Apr 20, 2011

Wonderful pics Paul, thanks for posting them. I always enjoy seeing pictures of other parts of the country, and especially when there is a picture or two of a tractor doing what it was built to do!

1sarge · Apr 20, 2011

Paul, thanks for the great pictures..and to ya'll that are on his case about not useing a plow. This is a different part of the country that you are in. Thngs are different, soil different and worked in a different way. Here in MS in the farm country you never never see a "plow" in the field, They aren't needed.

Bobl1958 · Apr 20, 2011

Nice pictures. You can almost smell the dirt clear over here in KS. Thanks for the posting. Bob

Jeff NWOH · Apr 20, 2011

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

fixerupper · Apr 20, 2011

Thanks for the pics. We northerners are anxious to see leaves on the trees like you have.

As for plowing, call it what you want to. We 'plow' snow, we 'plow' into our work, we 'plow' our money into something we 'plow' a furrow into thick metal with a torch prior to welding, the older farmers called corn cultivation 'plowing' corn. Sheesh, I'm gettin long winded. I envy your ability to 'plow' the garden as we are covered with snow right now. Jim

jwmfarms · Apr 20, 2011

If mkirsch had looked really good, or known what HE was talking about, he wouldn't have called that disc bedder a row crop cultivator, either!

slim · Apr 20, 2011

That's for sure. Here in North MS we would say the Ford has a disk and the Deere a hipper. All I can say is that I wish I was doing that right now. It's wet here.

slim

Doug Cotton · Apr 20, 2011

Here is what I consider plowing. I do 600-700 acres/year this way. 10 bottom Kverneland plow 12-13 inches deep.

Doug Cotton · Apr 20, 2011

For some reason photo didn't upload.

Doug Cotton · Apr 20, 2011

Here is what I consider plowing. I do 600-700 acres/year this way. 10 bottom Kverneland plow 12-13 inches deep.

tjdub · Apr 20, 2011

I was able to do some "plowing" with my rototiller on Sunday and Monday and put in about 150ft of potatoes...which are now covered in 6 inches of snow. Kind of a silly spring this year. Last year we had a very rare mid-May frost, this year I wouldn't surprised to get one in June!

showcrop · Apr 20, 2011

Around here at six inches is where you get the better rocks.

ncpapaul · Apr 20, 2011

Yea I got a plow, see pic. I disc it then hipped rows. My neighbor calls it "plowing his garden" so I just used his term, didn't mean to create a stir, BUT one thing this forum has taught me is to have a semi-thick skin cause there will be someone with sharp comments. No matter I still stay here, I like it here. Also he had me "turn" it with the plow last year and he wanted to skip a year, his dirt. Thanks, Paul

lmike51b · Apr 20, 2011

Good pictures. Good Plowin". Good neighbor. Good job!

fixerupper · Apr 20, 2011

Those spuds'll grow like weeds. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2011

That 10 bottom plow must be on river bottom soils or something. Back in the day when everyone plowed Dad taught us to plow to the depth of our topsoil in the eastern cornbelt which was 8-9 inches. Any deeper and your below the topsoil layer and mixing acid,clay subsoil into your topdirt. Course we only had 55 horse tractors back in the 60's pulling 14 " bottoms.

Bob in SD · Apr 20, 2011

Thanks for the pics. When the snow stops, it's supposed to rain for a week, so we won't be stirring any dirt here for awhile. I haven't even unhooked the snow blower yet (you never know).

Vernon in Ks · Apr 20, 2011

My Dad always said Never get into an argument with an idiot. no one can tell who is who.

Howard H. · Apr 20, 2011

Then what do you northeasterners call a Big Ox deep ripper or a DMI ripper?? Just curious...

No one out here in the TX/OK panhandles uses moldboards anymore commercially, they largely went out 20-25 years ago. Almost everyone that hasn't gone no-till uses a deep ripper occasionally going anywhere from 10-18 inches deep.

I took out every other shank on my 9 shank big Ox so I could pull it about 20 inches deep with my 330hp 895 Versatile to really break up some hard pan... And I was going deep enough that it was all my old big horse wanted...

I agree with LDJ - out here "plow" is just another term for "implement". It doesn't mean a moldboard necessarily...

Just curious...

Howard

glennster · Apr 20, 2011

nice pics!!! big garden too!!! i got taters and onions in two weeks ago, then its been cold and raining ever since, did manage to get the field corn in too. may have pulled the trigger a little early, but with any luck it will warm up some. north central illinois. looks like spring is in full force by you. i'm still in coveralls and a hooded sweatshirt.

thurlow · Apr 20, 2011

Apparently the picture of the row-crop cultivator didn't load on my computer; I see a hipper or as it's known in the mid/deep South, a hippen-ridger.

Doug Cotton · Apr 20, 2011

No that is not river bottom. Our soil is a sandy loam. We have to irrigate all summer. 1-1.5 inches per week required for potatoes.

bob featherstone · Apr 20, 2011

well you know around here yah gotta be pollitally correct or some one will call yah out ! LOL god dang i wish we had your weather
bob

paul · Apr 20, 2011

That's a different plow than up here on the MN tundra. That's _really_ a different sorta hitch to pull the packer!

All cool stuff, I donno what a 'hipper' or 'bedder' & such is either up here, always fun to see different tools.

We call molboard plows 'plows', and what some call a 'harrow disk' is a 'disk here, and a 'harrow' is what others call a 'drag', and so forth. Again, fun to see the differences.

I like the pics and stories. It's also cool to get 'picky' on what folks say, but all in fun & with a smile on my face. Sometimes it's hard to see the smile through the text.

--->Paul

Doug Cotton · Apr 21, 2011

I had to make it so if a bottom trips, there is clearance for it. Not what I wanted, but that is the way I had to go. Makes for an awful long contraption to turn around on the ends!

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