wow, I agree Neil....

a 3 bottom plow making a D8 grrrunt.....something wrong....looks like a lot of clay....and very dry....but woww....

it looks like he's turning a lot of ground and plow is deep but seems extreme concrete...old pasture...poor farming practices....drought....the list goes on...

That is a cool video. He is doing some serious plowing to make that D8 work that hard. As hard as some of that ground looked it is a wonder he didn't break some plow points. We don't see many roll-over plows in the Midwest but I have a 3 bottom that I use to keep terraces shaped along with the help of the 112.

I can relate.That ground looks tough.Dry and compacted.That plow is mean.Plowing deep too
I have pulled 4 bottoms with a D7F,12 bottoms with a D7E and 18 bottoms with a D73T. All depends on depth and ground
Crop production always was better by plowing in our area.Wish I had a picture of the 3T pulling the Stockton Gangs

Thanks for the link Neil. Did anybody else notice the mirror on the right side. My age is catching up to me I sure don't watch the implement behind me like I use to. Maybe one would help me too.


Well Italy/Mediterranean climate not much rain all summer so dust is to be expected. More or less the same as California which I know you have seen Neil.

Farming can be more inclination mixed with tradition than science some times. But if it worked a time or 2 makes you want to do it that way again.(wink,wink) My observation vegetable farmers like deep tillage here in Calif. I think partly because they harvest when the crop is ready not when the soil will carry the harvesting equipment. One reason they use Cat crawler loaders with forks to get crops out of mud nothing else will do.



I have never pulled a plow, to many rocks here. But doing barley harvest 40 miles from home I witnessed a example of why you plow. The first 50 or 60 feet around the field was notably better than the rest of the field. The owners answer is I have one plow and one chisel plow and 2 tractors, we stopped plowing because it was not going in the ground as deep as it normal does and we where behind getting summer fallow done. So we used the chisel on this field and plowed other ground that worked better with the plowed. One of those non scientific but very easy to see things that happen and can shape a farmers thinking for years to come.

I have never pulled a plow, to many rocks here. But doing barley harvest 40 miles from home I witnessed a example of why you plow. The first 50 or 60 feet around the field was notably better than the rest of the field. The owners answer is I have one plow and one chisel plow and 2 tractors, we stopped plowing because it was not going in the ground as deep as it normal does and we where behind getting summer fallow done. So we used the chisel on this field and plowed other ground that worked better with the plowed. One of those non scientific but very easy to see things that happen and can shape a farmers thinking for years to come.[/quote]




My dad always said,the proof is in the bin.We also found that plowing pays $$$.Always at least 3 sacks or more per acre VS disking or chiseling.Whether it was beans or grain.
Could always tell exactly to the line like you if we had to stop plowing because too wet or too dry and had to use a different tool