How do I plow a hillside REVISED

Posted by CharlieT on April 13, 2006 at 07:42:01 from (157.225.178.190):

I have to plow a 15 acre field where the lower 2/3 is a slight hillside of 20 deg slope and the upper 1/3 is realtively flat. I have a JD 730 gas pulling a 3 bottom 14" hydraulic lift trailer plow.
West
<==1200'==>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++Lower Right Corner
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Slope Starts Here
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ flat
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Upper Right Corner
East

In the past when I had to plow smaller sections, 2 or 3 acres on the slope, I would start on the lower right hand side and plow always right to left so that the sod would always turn towards the downslope side of the hill. When I got to the end of the row, I would lift the plows and return to the right hand side of the field before I would start plowing again.

I learned from experience that if I plowed from left to right on the return, with the sod turning towards the up slope side of the hill, always about half of the sod would fall back into the furrow.

This method is not bad when I had only a few acres to do, but I can not see myself doing this for all 15 acres. With the price of gas here in NY at $3 , I would waste a hell of a lot of fuel
with this method.

Can someone suggest a different method of plowing keeping in mind the sod problem on the slope part of the field.

Replies:

• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED davpal 21:33:12 04/13/06 (0)
• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED Tom from Ontario 19:05:38 04/13/06 (0)
• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED Leroy 14:03:32 04/13/06 (0)
• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED John17 10:35:42 04/13/06 (0)
• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED mjbrown 08:09:25 04/13/06 (2)
  • Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED CharlieT 08:17:10 04/13/06 (1)
    • Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED mjbrown 10:16:51 04/13/06 (0)
• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED johndeereman 08:06:49 04/13/06 (0)
• Re: How do I plow a hillside REVISED Mike M 08:05:26 04/13/06 (0)

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