Deep plowing with crawler
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Topic: Deep plowing with crawler
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: Deep plowing with crawler
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 2:04pm
Now this is what i call deep plowing , hard to believe one bottom plow can make a trench this deep . Person could get hurt falling into dead furrow.  ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
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Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 2:36pm
| IV seen a similar pic in red power. Said somthin about plowing the top soil after a big flood. That's cool stuf |
Posted By: Ages Cat
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 6:25pm
| A lot of this was done in California. I have never been privy to the reason that it is done. |
Posted By: David Gantt N.C.
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 7:41pm
| Man what a plow, like to see a video of it working |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 7:54pm
Well, my WD45 will pull a 3 bottom plow. Ya na na nana!
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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 8:17pm
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There is a plow like this at the Flywheelers in Florida. They do a demo each day of the show but with two crawlers chained together. Sandy ground
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Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2013 at 8:21pm
there are some big ones around, this one stays at the Florida Flywheelers place  ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: Ages Cat
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2013 at 10:18pm
| There are a number of articles and studies by several universities which can be viewed by simply searching "Deep Plowing". Essentially certain soils that are deep plowed produce an increased yield along with better root penetration , an important need when planting groves of fruit trees, etc. |
Posted By: birdfarmer2199
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2013 at 6:46pm
| What's up with the guy and shovel? Looking for Confederate gold? |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2013 at 8:37pm
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Some of the flooded farm land in Manhattan, KS area was "tilled" with such plow after the July 1951 flood. Never saw it in operation, but did see where it was being used. One of problems was plowing the ncessary depth, which varied with flooding irregularities. |
Posted By: D17JIM2
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2013 at 8:45pm
| When the levy along the Wabash south of Terre Haute broke a few years back some farmers went together to buy one of these so they could pull up the good soil to mix with all the sand that was washed in. Those who did not are still having trouble raising crops on that sand. Jim |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2013 at 9:29pm
| Farm north of me had a lot of sand after the floods of '73 and '93, they did not use a deep plow but a deep chisel for lifting buried topsoils and kind of tearing the sand patches up, was almost as long as those cable setting plows on crawlers but five tools wide. |
Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2013 at 6:08am
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Herb, my uncle once showed me some pictures of deep plowing done here in ks. was used in bottom ground after the flood. had 3 HD10's pulling it
heres a link to a small article
http://www.farmshow.com/view_articles.php?a_id=389" rel="nofollow - http://www.farmshow.com/view_articles.php?a_id=389
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