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Ploughing question

  • 16-04-2019 8:46pm
    #1
    mengele
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭


    If you are ploughing a field and the ploughing starts to go curvy what's the correct way to straighten the ploughing so that your ploughing straight again? Standard plough with no fancy vari widths etc.


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Where are you going crooked in the middle or at the ends?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    mengele
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭mengele


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Where are you going crooked in the middle or at the ends?

    In the middle


  • #4
    Dunedin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    mengele wrote: »
    In the middle

    Straighten the middle so......


  • #5
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    mengele wrote: »
    In the middle

    You’ll have to ploughing it out. If it’s in a U shape. Start at either end of the field and do short runs back in toward the middle until it’s straight. That’s if it’s bad. If it’s only slightly out just try keep the tractor straight and work it out of it over a couple of runs


  • #6
    blue5000
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    mengele wrote: »
    In the middle

    I find it easier to straighten up with a 2wd tractor funny enough, it seems to be easier to keep the wheel up on the ploughed furrow or shove it against the furrow wall to straighten things up.

    One thing I learned was if you need to widen where you plough, ie. if the ends are wider than the middle, drop the plough down an inch or two at the middle so that it 'grabs' more soil, it will plough wider for you. Sort of like what you would do with a hydraulic cross shaft.

    Opposite will work too, rise it up to take a smaller bite, but it's not as successful as going deeper.

    Little hills, esb poles and water troughs are all a blastard:o

    Have you a disc on the back furrow, it makes a cleaner furrow wall for you?

    Are you brave enough to stick up a pic?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #7
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Keep her lit until it's finished. You won't know the difference when it gets a belt of the land leveller lol.


  • #8
    _Brian
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    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Keep her lit until it's finished. You won't know the difference when it gets a belt of the land leveller lol.

    Never ploughed in mylife but thought this is the answer. It’s not like ploughed is tue finished job.


  • #9
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    _Brian wrote: »
    Never ploughed in mylife but thought this is the answer. It’s not like ploughed is tue finished job.

    Some lads just over think the job. Wexford lads take it to Hart all together. At the end of the day it's just turning the sod over.


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