Question about Plow'in

[Matt Kirsch]

Back to the original question: There's no one way to plow a field. Start in the middle and work your way out. Start at the edges and work your way in. Plow really wide fields in sections: Once you get an area plowed so wide that it's taking a long time to drive across the ends, start on a different section.

You can't get away from having that last little piece to plow in the middle if you plow from the outside in. Just knock it over with the plow as best you can. It'll be somewhat taken care of when you fit the field.

Speaking of fitting/discing/harrowing/dragging (depends on where you're from and what you're pulling), you do this to break up the clods and smooth the field out. Discs do well to break up clods, but they don't smooth the field very well. Spring-tooth harrows (drags?) do better to smooth and break up clods in gravel or loamy soil, but don't work that well in clay soil. There are also peg-tooth harrows.

For a Cub, I would personally limit fitting equipment to about 5 feet wide at most.

We always used to drag a piece of 4" well casing behind our disc and drag.

[KYMike]

Okay, here's some pics of the plow and said plowed field (sorry for the long load time).

The first few are of the plow and connections. The first field shot is of a cut furrow. The second is what I ended up with in the middle (did my best to knock it down). The third is what you get when you try to re-plow an area (don't re-plow an area). The last is of a trio of Pyrenees pups we just got to protect our livestock (going to be hard NOT to make them pets).

[cowboy]

Hi Mike

Looks like you need to move in your right wheel. With it out that far it moves you out and the furrow you are cutting does not lay on the last one you cut. It will make a lot cleaner field for you.

Good luck Billy

[Rudi]

Mike:

Seeing as I am no expert on plowing, I am gonna leave all that alone except to say - NICE plow

Here is the important part aside from the Cub



Great Pyrennes dogs are probably the finest people and animal dogs in the world. The pic above although not great, is one of the few that I have available at the moment of probably the best dog I have ever had the pleasure to share my space with. this was my friend - Spook.

When we first got Spook, Em and I were raising Leghorns, Meat Kings, Silkys, Aricana's, Turkeys, Ducks,other assorted birds AND Rabbits. Spooks job was to guard the critters. He did the job well. He was so attached to the Rabbits and they to him he literally made a hole in the chicken wire to get into the Rabbit pen. He could be found every morning laying down with Rabbits all snuggled around him. The Rabbits never left the pen.. why we don't know, they just didn't

We never lost a Rabbit, duck, or any of the other fowls to the coyote's that range in our back wood lot. He made sure of that. Before we got Spook, the coyote's were brave enough that they were on our side deck one night - met the critter as we were going across to my mother-in-law's house. Talk about a bit of a shock

Spook also was part of the family. His having a place with us never lessened his duties as the critter defender. He did both well. You will find that the hard part is not in allowing them to be pets, but in becoming family members.

Oh, he also kept me sane the first few years after I had to retire medically. Sadly, I had to put him down, it will be two years this coming August. Great Pyrennes don't have a long life span unfortunately.

[Scott]

LOOK AT THE PUPPYS. THERE SO HAPPY

[KYMike]

Well, a walk-behind (more like drag-behind) tiller has no chance of tilling the 6" furrows my plow made. I need a disc to knock down the clumps before I can think about tilling.

So I have to ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" Instead of plowing a garden why couldn't I have just used a tiller and be done with it? Since my garden is only about 50' x 75' I think even a small tractor like the Cub is overkill. I can't think of too many other uses for it other than a make-believe bush hog with the belly mower so if I sold it and the implements I have I could get a pretty good riding lawn mower and a power tiller and I'd be set.

What do you think?

[Dave (69 lo-boy)]

I'm with Billy, get those tires moved in, you are slicing off way more than you want too, each pass should roll onto the last one, you should end up with a gently undulating garden, not a series of ridges and furrows.
I start at one end of the garden and then lift the plow and drive around, and plow from the same direction with the front and rear tires set properly you should have them running in the the furrow you just made with the plow filling in the furrow behind you.
Throw it one way this year and back the other way the next year to keep from ending up with a hill on one side and a ditch on the other over time.
The depth of the plow is controlled by the angle it goes in to the soil.
Dave

[Ike]

Well, a walk-behind (more like drag-behind) tiller has no chance of tilling the 6" furrows my plow made. I need a disc to knock down the clumps before I can think about tilling.

KYMike,

Can you find an old single gang horse drawn disc in your area? That might work if you can't find a Cub disc.

Ike

[Jim Hudson]

KYMike I found this just going down the road and noticed a farm place with lots of junk in the pasture. The fellow gave me a tour and I bought this. I added 240 lbs. of weight.

[Marion(57 Loboy)]

Hey KYMike,

Check out my web page: under misc pics.
I have a tandem disk for sale. Price is RIGHT !!!!!

Al pulled this as a tandem with JD L's and his V's and Cubs when he had a huge garden. He split off the back end for the smaller garden.

You pull the tongue out to set it...pin it....pull the pin and back up to get em straight again if I remember right.

Will need a few new disks, or move some from the back to the front piece.

Let me know, some how with all the travelling us guys do we could get it to ya or close enough to meet someplace??

-Marion

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Marion, how about posting a link to your disk. didn't spot it on your website, and doing a lot of browsing of pictures with a dialup is a pain in the a**.

[Jim Hudson]

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0WQCJAukccUZ31JJ*07DKRjJSjZivL7F!nSKBTXvCbtGLk4IghnFfHCjwPAE9VRmzISxNkYY*i87SajfJJi!mXIdscE1aUPMGZKh*zp*MoiU9eHOPacqJnYibLrHRuLvSPgLbKEZo8YQ/forsaledisk4.JPG?dc=4675521579348556459