Thank you very much, I thought it was good tooHere, that's called dual purpose ploughing, You can graze one side and crop the other. Takes a specialist to do it.
A spot of ploughing
- Thread starter wilt434
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- Somerset
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
oh i dont know, small holder near us years ago, was having trouble pulling the plough with his little tractor, asked my old boss what to do to get it to plough, boss said "just unbolt a furrow off it, a 2 furrow is easier pulled than a 3 furrow"Well they couldn't be worse
next day we went past, he had ploughed most of a 7 acre field, what a fecking mess, he had unbolted the front furrow, left the 2 back ones on
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- Somerset
Don't tell him that he'll get big headedHere, that's called dual purpose ploughing, You can graze one side ell him that and crop the other. Takes a specialist to do it.
glasshouse
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- lothians
where can you see steam ploughing?
So, all we need now is a list to choose from! As its on Grass, I would like to come up. Will need to spend a few more hours on the lorry every day to get it finished though!
Mydexta
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- Dundee/angus
There was steam ploughing last weekend at b a country stores vintage weekend, up at dunecht, Aberdeenshire
Don't know where or when they will be out next unfortunately
Tha Ulsterscot
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- Greyabbey Co. Down.
Ah well, he still has to perfect it, for best results each furrow must sit on its side with a gap between each, A very skilled operation.Don't tell him that he'll get big headed
Roy Stokes
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- East Shropshire
As it is on grass what chances are there of making a decent job of ploughing it in late June ? we would need some serious rain to make it a goer, from all the above comments and lack of response from organizers ( And Bob's summary of the job) I am staying home
You know the land in your area far better than most Roy, but, for example, Yesterdays Farming held in mid August has been on grass and it ploughed well. The required amount of rain may well arrive, there is quite a lot promised for next week.
If they will have me, I hope to go, its a chance to bring match ploughing to the attention of people who otherwise would never see any,and if we can gain a couple of new competitors it will be worth the effort.
The organisation does seem a bit " unusual" but its so easy to say," lets have a ploughing match," when you dont know the amount of work involved in running one, I am sure its come as a bit of a shock to those in charge!
If they will have me, I hope to go, its a chance to bring match ploughing to the attention of people who otherwise would never see any,and if we can gain a couple of new competitors it will be worth the effort.
The organisation does seem a bit " unusual" but its so easy to say," lets have a ploughing match," when you dont know the amount of work involved in running one, I am sure its come as a bit of a shock to those in charge!
Roy Stokes
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- East Shropshire
It is quite a way from my immediate area and as you say there is rain forecast but turfs are already bone dry and the match is the other end of June, you will need rain on the run up to match day to make it plough well, I find little or no pleasure in ploughing bone dry land, Sarn match was dry enough by all accounts and the weather is drier now than then, locally farmers have been taking Westerwold catch crop grass and ploughing it up for maize, where it was subsoiled for Westerwold establishment last autumn ploughing has been acceptable but where it was scratched into the top of stubble ploughing has been difficult, even with heavy modern reversibles
massey765
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- nr clitheroe lancs
bleddy hell... it will have to dry some around here to be to dry to plough by the end of month...funny how different parts of the country have such extremes of weather
tomlad
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- nr. preston
I'm north west
Lancashire
pretty wet here
to wet to enter a field today
Lancashire
pretty wet here
to wet to enter a field today
Roy Stokes
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- Location
- East Shropshire
We are not having what I would call a dry early summer but heavy ground has been well cracked open and tramline bottoms have cracked allowing water to disappear, traveling is not a problem !