Can Someone Tell Me Why

I've been wondering this for forty years and have been too shy to ask in fear of showing my ignorance.

But, can someone explain to me why spinner plows were/are not all that popular by the majority of farmers?

I have never been able to understand this. I've never understood why someone would want to plow in lands, or in circles instead of plowing both directions. I don't get it.

Thanks for your insight,

Allan

Did you doctor the picture or someone else? You had me for a minute there. :>)

Nice job though, almost looks real.

Allan

If you look at them, obviously it costs 2wce as much as a regular plow. Plus the extra joints/hyd to wear out. I've only seen 1 or 2 of those here in Minnesota. I understand they are real popular in Europe - some areas anyhow.

--->Paul

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Yeah but, anyone notice this guy isn't plowing? He is 'scratching'. He has more plow than horse in this instance.

My opinion,

Allan

Rod

That is the beauty of a two-way tho. The forward motion never stops; the plow comes out of the ground, make a small loop into the unplowed ground (turn shaped like a hitchpin key) while spinning the plow and then come right back around & back into that same furrow without ever stopping. Never changing the engine speed, just pulling the torque.

I'm just windy today, I guess.

Allan

Mark

Scottsbluff area

Regards,

Mark

I'm just up the hill from you in the Chadron area. Small damned world. I was born in Scottsbluff 'bout 172 years ago.

Our farms are up on the Flats south of Hay Springs. Putting a pivot on one of them this fall after the crop is out.

Always had a warm spot in my heart for that valley area down there....

I was down to Frank Implement a week ago looking for a tractor...no joy; had to buy one down east.

Keep on keepin' on.

Allan

What kind of tractor did you buy.
I am just now looking to put a JD 740 loader on my 7410 MFWD.
21st Century

Mark

Where are you? I'm in Nebraska too.

Allan

If you properly lay out the field you are going to plow, meaning plan how the furrows will lay, where you will start and finish, which way you will throw the dirt, you really don't need a rollover plow. The only place I see much advantage in them is in small fields or garden plots with no headlands to turn around in.

Down here, the disc, or one-way plough is KING of the plows and we mostly do go round and round in ever-diminishing concentric whatever-shapes until we have to get out of there before we disappear into our own fundamental orifices. Most of our broad-acre cultivation is done this way, whatever the implement. You mostly find cultivation in rows done in smaller market garden type farms.

Hope this helps.

You have a wonderful Day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

Yes, I'm familiar with your type of "plows". We call them one-ways here. A gang of large discs running at a rather steep angle to the direction of travel thereby cutting like a knife thru butter. Very common on large acreage’s (wheat fields), as you say.

No, what I'm talking about are the moldboard plows, which actually have two bottoms for each one "bottom" used. The opposing bottoms are stacked upside-down to one another and one set of moldboards are facing the opposite throw than the set which is currently in the ground.

In other words, you always have a set of moldboards standing mounted upside-down on top of the “in ground set” and they are always riding out of the ground.

They are built along the idea of the old tumble plows, but the bottom sets are hydraulically rotated or 'spun' over a center tube sideways instead of lengthwise.

This allows the plowing operation to run in both directions (returning right back into your furrow at the end of the field) and still throw the soil in the same direction, thereby allowing one to plow a field from one side to the other without leaving that dead furrow(s) in the middle of the field. Most common on irrigated farms and where a lot of trash has to be turned under.

Hope I've given you a mental picture; if I had a digital pic, I'd post it. :>)

Regards,

Allan

I knew there had to be a reason(s) why even to this day, you see more one-ways than spinners.

Although, (and I'm guessing) that if any given buyer would try the spinner, many of those reasons you quote would very quickly be offset by the efficiency of the two-way.

Just my opinion,

Allan

Yes, I know where you are coming from in that respect, and you'll get no arguement from me.

Economics will always dictate farming practices as it always has. :>)

Later,

Allan

Yes, you're right. 6 18" bottoms takes a lot of ponies and usually a 4X4.

Allan