Tuesday
Aug282007
The Sub-Soil Situation
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 10:25PM
One of the basic tenants of farming is breaking ground (well conventional farming at least)... which we seem to be having a hard time doing! The free plow has been on and off the tractor about a dozen times - trying the existing pin locations - and the pre-drilled holes with some standard bolts - just to see how things work out... And the answer thus far is - "not so good". The silly thing just glides right over the top of the soil - not going deep enough to take a bite and start rolling it over.
The good news is - some headway was made the other night in determining a course of action follow some excellent postings and discussion over at tractorbynet.com - my father-in-law and I beating on the thing - and some good emails with my pop.
Basically - this picture below is the answer:
The part of the plow where the 3pt pins are marked by the red box needs to be cut off... it then needs to be reattached in the location of the yellow box... the green dot indicates where the pin will be located. This modification (on both sides) and likely the raising of the top-link too - will give me a tool to start plowing to my hearts content.
Come to find out - this silly old plow was a category 0 implement - modified to be a category 1... and the modification was likely for one of those limited category 1 tractors... hence it not fitting on mine right!
Anyhow - more to come on the plow saga - but soon enough I'll be making furrows a plenty.
The good news is - some headway was made the other night in determining a course of action follow some excellent postings and discussion over at tractorbynet.com - my father-in-law and I beating on the thing - and some good emails with my pop.
Basically - this picture below is the answer:
The part of the plow where the 3pt pins are marked by the red box needs to be cut off... it then needs to be reattached in the location of the yellow box... the green dot indicates where the pin will be located. This modification (on both sides) and likely the raising of the top-link too - will give me a tool to start plowing to my hearts content.Come to find out - this silly old plow was a category 0 implement - modified to be a category 1... and the modification was likely for one of those limited category 1 tractors... hence it not fitting on mine right!
Anyhow - more to come on the plow saga - but soon enough I'll be making furrows a plenty.
Reader Comments (1)
Good luck with that!! I still wish I had some of our own equipment for fun projects, but then I'd need more land...
We have 80 tons of topsoil and 10 tons of mulch being delivered tomorrow...still have no idea how I want them to unload it (scattered around in piles, or over on the unsold neighboring lot, or...?).
And then tomorrow evening or early Saturday morning the Bobcat gets delivered for the weekend. Since we have hardpacked, heavy clay soil the guys at the rental place recommended getting the yard-rake attachment rather than the rockhound. I guess the rockhound isn't built for breaking through the tough packed dirt to get out the rocks - it just skims through loose soil and sifts them out. So instead we're getting the lawn rake (big long rotating cynlinder with teeth to tear through the dirt) and added on the tiller attachment to really break things up and mix in the topsoil we're having delivered. The lawnrake is supposed to spit some of the rocks out to the side.
Now I'm wondering if we should just get the tiller and rockhound attachments!
And I'm REAL worried about hitting utilities...those are getting marked this week.
Ugh - wanna come do our lawn!?