picture of using a Vplow ditcher to make irrigation ditch

dmiller · May 6, 2015

Assigned a student to find a picture of a 3pt V Plow ditcher making an irrigation ditch as part of a project we are doing for our local museum. He and I both have spent way too long searching google images and haven't come up with what we are looking for. Lots of pictures of the ditcher, but none of it on a tractor making a ditch. We keep finding PTO driven trenchers.
Do any of you have a picture like that you'd be willing to post?
Thanks

Lazy WP · May 7, 2015

Eversman used to make them, but I can't find any pictures doing a quick search.

Dick2 · May 7, 2015

I used to see those sitting around in the 60's, but don't know if they are being used much anymore. Seems that backhoes are being used to clean irrigation ditches now.

dmiller · May 7, 2015

Nearly everyone uses them around here for pulling ditches in the field after planting in order to flood irrigate. I guess I'll have to go stage a picture next week when I get to doing one in a pasture I rent.
Thought maybe Delta Red would have a picture since he also lives in an area that still flood irrigates. Excavators are used for cleaning the main ditches and canals but not for putting the ditch in the field.

Wheatfarmer · May 7, 2015

How about this one. I don't have a better picture, but it becomes to a friend on mine.

Wheatfarmer · May 7, 2015

Would have to take a picture of it being used about March/April.

PopinJohn · May 7, 2015

Sorry, no picture, but remember a neighbor used a 4-wheeler fitted with a set of tall skinny steel wheels with cleats for ditching.
Far less expensive than using a tractor, also easier, Just wait until after rain, then drive across areas that need draining.
Also, eliminates ditches on land put to grade.

Den N Ms · May 7, 2015

Here is one

V Plow

dmiller · May 7, 2015

This will do. Thanks. We are setting up displays for a series of antique equipment the museum has. The write-up the kids are doing shows a picture of the antique one being used, explains what it does and why they needed to do that, then shows a picture of the modern version of the same tool/task with an explanation of the differences between then and now.

DeltaRed · May 8, 2015

I have an Eversman 3 point 'ditcher'.If fact it is hooked to the tractor as we speak.I was going to 'pull' some ditches this afternoon. However my camera has been broken for several months and has not been replaced.

mj · May 8, 2015

(quoted from post at 09:19:07 05/07/15) Sorry, no picture, but remember a neighbor used a 4-wheeler fitted with a set of tall skinny steel wheels with cleats for ditching.
Far less expensive than using a tractor, also easier, Just wait until after rain, then drive across areas that need draining.
Also, eliminates ditches on land put to grade.

Yea but ,,,,,,, a guy needs bigger ditches than that to feed the siphon tubes or gated pipe for furrow irrigation of the fields ...... that might help with flood irrigation but not furrows ....... some guys also use a v-ditcher for the first pass at the downgrade end of their fields to drain off what's coming down the furrows when the field is being irrigated and then switch to a back-blade for maintenance as well as 'relieving' the upslope side of the ditch to promote flow from the furrows.

mj · May 8, 2015

(quoted from post at 11:48:41 05/08/15) I have an Eversman 3 point 'ditcher'.If fact it is hooked to the tractor as we speak.I was going to 'pull' some ditches this afternoon. However my camera has been broken for several months and has not been replaced.

If you still have some to pull on Saturday email me your cell # and I'll come over (need the cell# for directions to your place) and take some photos 8)

picture of using a Vplow ditcher to make irrigation ditch

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