Posted by IaGary on October 04, 2010 at 20:09:32 from (69.63.16.90):
After reading the post below I thought I would see what terms are used for the different procedures of plowing in your area.
I started plowing with a 5 bottom behind a 856 at the age of 14. And still plow some today 40 years later. One year dad and I plowed 500 acres.
Dad told me to go out plow the field in 5 lands.The field was about a 1000 foot wide.
I used 3 Headlands. Headlands are the act of plowing the furrows toward each other.One was in the middle of the field and the other 2 were about 100 foot from each edge of the field. I continued plowing on the headlands till they were about 200 foot wide. The headlands were placed about 400 foot apart so when you got each headland plowed 200 foot wide you had 200 foot inbetween them that was unplowed.
I filled in between the headlands with two backlands (the plowing away from two headlands till the ground was all plowed in between the headlands).The last furrow that was left by the backlands was a dead furrow.
The dead furrow was filled in by plowing it shut by going the opposite direction on the already plowed ground at about half the depth the rest of the field was plowed. Guess we just called that part filling the dead furrow.
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