Flatten out plowed field

if the current plow job is just too bad, then plant a cover crop like oats, wheat, rye, ryegrass etc, and plow again next May.

Do not make sharp turns with a plow, especially a 3-point plow. Also disks do not like making turns when in the ground - you can maybe get by with a smaller disk, but large 20 foot disks will break the frame if you do this.

Is the rope attached to a plate with some cogs on it? This is for adjusting the angle of the disk gangs. You would want to start out with a shallow angle to break up your lumps, then a more aggressive angle to fluff the ground & kill weeds.

It sounds like your disk needs some adjusting, or the blades are worn down too small. It should not be bunching up the soil as you describe.

--->Paul

For the future, it helps to plow the ground, and then about 4-8 hours later run over it with a harrow (spike-tooth drag). If you wait any longer the ground will bake into bricks, sooner & it will mash down into hard ground again. You want to hit it when the outside of the lumps are getting hard & cracking, but the middles are still damp. It will fall apart pretty well at just that right time. You could use the disk if you don't have a harrow, but you are better off with a wider harrow & just knock the lumps around a bit, less tractor tracks in the field.

Timing with the rains can also do this now. You will not get a good seedbed if it's dry now anyhow, so just sit back & wait. When it rains, try to hit that 'sweet spot' when the field is drying out a bit, but the lumps aren't dried out rock-hard again. Roll over them with the disk, don't angle it much, and it should cut them up a bit. Caution, in damp/wet conditions a disk will QUICKLY roll the ground into a hard-packed concrete again, so only go over it once, give it time to dry.

Here in Minnesota we plow in fall, let winter freezing & moisture mellow out the soil & have an easy to prepare seedbed in spring. That would be ideal, but we can't always do what is ideal, huh? :)

You can run over the field with the backblade turned around backwards, drive forwards. But, it isn't ideal, and it does cause a few grins from the folks driving by.... ;) ;)

--->Paul