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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Got some more plowing done last night and tonight. The ground on this side of the farm is a lot nicer and more mellow, but still very hard. The 1030 handles it well in third but can't pull it in 4th at all. At least this isn't quite so gummy. According to the neighbors this farm hasn't been plowed or chisel plowed in more than a decade, so that and the wet makes it hard going.
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That can't be more beautiful. As black as it is, the heavy is OK. Yellow clay for 50 feet under 6 inches of a bit less yellow clay, is tougher. Jim
 
Lot of guys over this was have gone back to mow board plowing too. Seems that they can get away with 4-5 years with a chisel plow but then yields start to drop off from what they are saying. Most locals claim that when they tried no till after 2 years yields dropped off. According to the AG people to much soil compaction.

Rick
 
oldtanker,
I've never seen a farmer in Terre Haute use a plow.
All disk or use a disk/chisel plow combo.

They disk the cornstalks and use minimum till.

Some leave the straw. Some bale the straw

The past 5 winters we have a very shallow frost
line.

This year farmers were planting corn April 15. Frost
date is April 20.

Someone said plowing exposes the dark soil to the
sun to warm up faster in spring.

In the 60's my dad plowed everything in N Indiana.
He used a woods corn stalk chopper and pull a disk
before he plowed.
 
Looks like that plow is making that Case bark! And it looks like your rebuild on the engine is holding up. It's all good!
 

I firmly believe some ground needs a moldboard. Maybe it's our clay, but seems like he heavier the ground the more it benefits.
 
If using a disk is common, then the soil is way different than what we have. Disks were mostly parked on the grove in the 1970s, as we figured out that is ha is compacting our clay based dirt the most. Now we all have an old disk in the grove, pull it out for that real need once every few years.

Lot of folk still molboard plow, most have moved to rippers. Chisel plows if used tend to be On the beefy side, not the old whimpy 2 inch stuff.

Water really doesn?t drain through this soil, it just is all perched water tables. With lots of tile, it dries off enough for a good crop, but even with tile it drains very slowly. Some sort of tillage to expose black dirt in spring sure helps the dirt warm up and dry off a little.

Paul
 
Paul,
The county where I live has 4 different soil types depending on where you live. However all the farmers seem to use what you call a ripper, a disk or a combo ripper/disk.

Sometimes a field may have two different soil types. The higher ground could be yellow sand and the lower ground could be clay or darker soil.

For the most part, our fields are flat.

I'm going to guess the climate may be the reason why some farmers plow and some use minimum tillage.
 
Again, thanks for the pictures. That Case seems to be handling that soil better. It sure sounds smooth.

I was going to suggest you adjust the coulters. Then I realized there were none. Jokes on me. I wonder how much coulters help make the plow pull easier.

On my 3x18 JD 4200 rollover plow I just use coulters on the last bottom to clean up my side wall. I was concerned about it plugging easier without the first two coulters. It did but not as bad as I thought it might be. I did have to disk a couple of fields first.

Thanks again.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 14:16:31 10/24/18) Paul,
The county where I live has 4 different soil types depending on where you live. However all the farmers seem to use what you call a ripper, a disk or a combo ripper/disk.

Sometimes a field may have two different soil types. The higher ground could be yellow sand and the lower ground could be clay or darker soil.

For the most part, our fields are flat.

I'm going to guess the climate may be the reason why some farmers plow and some use minimum tillage.
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Everyone I know with a chisel plow also has a mowboard plow too. Like I say not every field every year, bout once every 5 years it seems. And I certainly didn't say it applied to everyone everywhere.

Rick
 
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