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What Is a Hillside Plow?

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Bill

02-11-2004 09:00:30




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I saw an ad the other day for a hillside plow. My question is - what are they, how are they different from a normal moldboard plow and were they used only with horses or were they 3 pt hitch mounted for tractors? Can they still be bought new? At what slope would one use a hillside plow vs a normal moldboard?

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Bill




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Farmer Gene (WI)

02-12-2004 06:35:31




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 Re: What Is a Hillside Plow? in reply to Bill, 02-11-2004 09:00:30  
A hillside plow is one that has a feature that allows you to shift the plow sideways relative to the hitch point of the tractor. A two way hyd cyl is mounted on the cross bar at the front of the plow. Thus if the front bottom isn't taking a full cut, the operator can actuate the cyl and move the plow over so it does, or if it's taking too much, he can move it the other way. I've got an old Melro here that's got the ears to mount a cyl on it but never used it cause my tractor only had single hyd outlets on the back and don't plow many hills.

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Jeff

02-11-2004 09:12:23




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 Re: What Is a Hillside Plow? in reply to Bill, 02-11-2004 09:00:30  
Around here what we call a flip-flop plow is I think what you are talking about. They allowed a farmer to plow out along a hillside then come right back the same furrow. On the old walking plows, the bottom would roll down around and latch on the other side. You would start out plowing to the right, then flip the plow at the end of the field (the share would become the shin and vice versa) and come back plowing to the left. Sulky (riding) plows and trailer plows were made with both left and right plowing bottoms, you just lowered the bottom or bottoms that you wanted. Most 3 point hitch hilside plows have a set of opposite bottoms sticking up in the air. They are generaly then rotated with hydraulics.

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Turbo

02-12-2004 15:32:10




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 Re: Re: What Is a Hillside Plow? in reply to Jeff, 02-11-2004 09:12:23  
Thats a Rollover plow You just wrote about. A hillside plow is what Farmer Gene said.



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