Now That's Plowing Deep !!

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LittleD

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• Jan 26, 2020

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tim s

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• Jan 26, 2020

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Is that a China Man standing in the furrow ??

 

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oldproudvet

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• Jan 26, 2020

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That should tear up the "hard pan".............

 

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oldproudvet

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• Jan 26, 2020

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That ought'a tear out that "hard pan"

 

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Dean

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• Jan 26, 2020

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Planting asparagus?

Dean

 

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ss55

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• Jan 26, 2020

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Are they burying a thick layer of sand and silt after a flood?

 

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caterpillar guy

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• Jan 26, 2020

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So they want the clay to hold moisture and stop the wind from blowing the dirt away? This would be on sandy soils?

 

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caterpillar guy

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• Jan 26, 2020

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So they want the clay to hold moisture and stop the wind from blowing the dirt away? This would be on sandy soils? I know they have disc plows they do that about 3 feet deep for that reason in west Texas down around Seminole over to the NM line.

 

DoubleO7

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Crystal River, FL

• Jan 26, 2020

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Took awhile to notice but there are three dozers.
Maybe an oil well tower in the back ground.
Maybe getting ready to lay pipe to interconnect those wells?

 

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fastfarmall

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• Jan 26, 2020

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Sure looks like it, got to be about 7 feet deep !!

 

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Adirondack case guy

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• Jan 26, 2020

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If that was in today's environment, OSHA would be all over those guys for letting that fella set foot in the bottom of the furrow.-------------------------Loren

 

Goose

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• Jan 26, 2020

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That could be it.

I never saw it, but I heard they once did that along the Missouri River after a flood to bury sand and silt and bring good topsoil up.

 

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Tractorcedric

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Garland. Utah

• Jan 26, 2020

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Wonder if the guy running the plow has his hoisting license?

 

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Hoofer B

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• Jan 26, 2020

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only a 1 bottom???

 

showcrop

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• Jan 26, 2020

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I saw a pic or two a few years ago and a caption said that they were doing it at Huntington Beach CA, to get dirty clay to the surface and sandy clay buried.

 

T in NE

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Cambridge, Nebraska

• Jan 26, 2020

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They do that in the great white north to mix clay into the peat.

 

DoubleO7

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Location

Crystal River, FL

• Jan 26, 2020

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(quoted from post at 17:25:19 01/26/20) They do that in the great white north to mix clay into the peat.

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The dozers appear to be outfitted with heat housers so they might be way up north.

 

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paul

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• Jan 26, 2020

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Hum, they don?t try it as an in furrow setup?

Paul

 

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JMS/.MN

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• Jan 26, 2020

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In the 50s there was a story in "The Farmer" magazine, out of MN, about a similar plow in MI. Dad thought if would be a good machine to use on an 80 we had- light soil, underlain with marl. A ditch was dug along 3 sides of the 80, back in the 30s, and we plowed the spoil down to create level field area. The spoil always produced more crop than the adjoining land, after it was plowed and mixed. We plowed down the bank with two tractors chained together, to keep the plow tractor from tipping.

 

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fixt

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• Jan 26, 2020

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I saw them doing that on youtube (search world's biggest plow
by tractorspotter). It said they do it so lighter sand and peat is brought to the top. It makes the soil more loamy and is easier to work and grow different crops. It was plowing 2 meters deep being pulled by 2 D8s and a D6. Impressive.

So as rough as that's field is going to be, what would you disc it with?