Re: 766 -plough match?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 18, 2004 at 03:46:24 from (209.226.247.2):

In Reply to: Re: 766 -plough match? posted by Allan in NE on November 17, 2004 at 18:36:41:

Allan: I don't know as true drylander is the word. My dad and I always believed field tillage was much like grading a gravel road. If you don't cut it to a uniform depth, your loose material will just settle out at same grade as all the hummocs left below. Dad had a 57 Chevrolet sedan when I was 16, he said if you couldn't drive over seeded out alfalfa or grass at 50 mph tillage operator hadn't done a good job. Same was the case of the grader operator on the gravel road. Dad didn't want to hear Chevy wheels going over the wash board.

A lot of guys today believe tillage is just about tearing soil to bits and levelling it with a land leveller. We didn't have land levellers in the 50s, didn't have power to pull them anyhow. Quite often today you seed road graders on gravel roads bouncing much like the cultivator I described. Both a case of more horse power than operator is capable of dealing with.

I used to do a bit of custom work in the 70s and early 80s. Fields that I knew a sprayer boom shouldn't hit the ground, but it did. I used to tell guys that I wasn't going to do buldozing for them with combine equiped with automatic header height control and floating cutter bar. Or make graden rows with corn crop dividers. The average combine just has too much traction and power for light buldozing or making rows. A good number of farmers have gone to discbines. Sad part is a lot of them have been bought to grind off the hummocs left by poor tillage. We had a discussion here last spring, one guy was making 8-10 acres per hour with 9' discbine. The rest were all doing 5 acres per hour, exactly the same as I did with 656 and 9' haybine 30 years ago. I suspect that one guy had his fields level, the rest were grinding off hummocs.

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