Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

market-farming - Re: [Market-farming] How to Plow

market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Market Farming

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: BillOhio <billohio AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How to Plow
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:54:03 -0400

I bought a Ferguson 2-bottom 12" plow this spring on Ebay, and discovered that, while I'd plowed quite a bit as a boy, Dad had always set it up first. My furrows looked like I'd been trying to push a rope down the field.
 
A couple of good vintage publications I found were these. I've got a Ford 8N so that's what I was looking for, but some of the tips should apply to plowing in general.
 
Ferguson AO Plows - Operating and Assembly  http://www.ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals/messages/1880.html
 
Ferguson Moldboard Plow Service Manual
http://www.ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals/messages/2088.html
 
http://tractorpoint.com/cgi-bin/tractorreview/fullThread.pl?parentnum=25978&subject=Plow%20Hookup&keyword=Tractor%20Implements
 
For whatever reason the cross shaft on my plow was installed upside down, which was why I couldn't get the rear share into the ground. I couldn't get the plow leveled in the furrow. Also the rear of the plow was pointing to the left front rather than right front tire, which was why the danged tractor kept trying to take off across the plowed field at a 30 degree angle. The rear furrow wheel acts like a rudder on a boat. Once I got these things fixed and the draft set at a level the tractor could pull, things went pretty smooth. At least my wife doesn't think the plow is a piece of junk any more :). Now to convince her I really need a 5' disk...
 
Hope this helps,
Bill Huhman
Central Ohio and home of the Pumpkin Show going on this week
http://pumpkinshow.com
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT inil.com> wrote:
I can't remember which publication it was in but I once read a beautiful
discourse on the art and methodology of moldboard plowing by Gene Logsdon. I
know many have retired their moldboard plows but for the purpose of opening
up fallow ground, it's really the best technique. If followed up properly it
does not have to result in soil erosion.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Fellenz" <fellenz AT fltg.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:42 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] How to Plow


> I'm scaling up and looking for information on setting up and operating
> larger equipment, specifically the best way to open up and plow fields
> which have been mowed, but not planted in a long (>15 years) time.  Up
> to now I've usually worked up 1/4-1/2 acre at a time at the most and
> used a 3pt mounted rototiller.
>
> I'll be planting larger areas next year and am looking for good how-to
> guides.  On the equipment side for the larger fields I have an Allis
> Chalmers 180 (~70hp) with a 14" Oliver plow (plow can be set up as 3 or
> 4 bottoms), 8' disk, 12' disk, 8' cultipacker, 10' cultimulcher, 8'
> S-Tine cultivator.  I've mowed the field this season and may have time
> to get out and fall plow if it makes sense.
>
> Andy
> _______________________________________________
> Market-farming mailing list
> Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming
>
>

_______________________________________________
Market-farming mailing list
Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page