What is "heavy" land?

A Trebor · Mar 29, 2020

Dave645 said:
In it Ferry

Am at Butterwick, used to play football for ferry

glasshouse · Mar 29, 2020

Dave6170 said:
Thats what id call heavyView attachment 865027

Thats not heavy land if you can pull 7 furrs!

glasshouse · Mar 29, 2020

The Agrarian said:
We have spots like the OP in nearly every field. And our average field size is about seven acres. Nearly all grass here. The problem is the light land isn't sandy. It's a silty loam that sticks to the wet boards like buggery. Off at every other headland with the spade if the conditions are ripe for it.

The weather is different here too. Always damp, so land like that at the moment is a no go area for walking on. Once it's ploughed though, two or three half decent days make a job of it.

Even when it werent raining it were always damp!

glasshouse · Mar 29, 2020

wanton dwarf said:
Some years ago I was rolling some land and the rolls were doing practically nothing despite being rolled 3 or 4 times. Basically just shuffling bricks.

Getting a bit pee'd off .. as some on here know happens on occassion .. I decided to try going round & round in circles moving a tractor length or so forward every circle.

The rotational sheer was brilliant .. there you go .. tip of the day .. all you need is plenty of sun to bake that boys land into a brick or two.

Did the neighbours call the asylum?

Dave6170 · Mar 29, 2020

glasshouse said:
Thats not heavy land if you can pull 7 furrs!

As i said i think it has a 500hp fendt on it!

wanton dwarf · Mar 29, 2020

glasshouse said:
Did the neighbours call the asylum?

.. it's care in the community these days .. anyway I was doing a video of it at the time using a selfie stick .. not.

Bobthebuilder · Mar 29, 2020

There’s a strip of land east of the A1 that runs from Newcastle to the Scottish Borders that is bloody awful, catch it right and it’s probably some of the best wheat growing land in the country tho

glasshouse · Mar 29, 2020

Bobthebuilder said:
There’s a strip of land east of the A1 that runs from Newcastle to the Scottish Borders that is bloody awful, catch it right and it’s probably some of the best wheat growing land in the country tho

I saw some shocking messes on that strip last autumn

Farma Parma · Mar 30, 2020

jh. said:
Is yield or profit king though?

If the DD costs a quarter of the costs to establish while being better for the environment should that not be factored in too.

We're 100% arable now but some area should be in grass . Perhaps in years to come the folk that can make DD work will grow crops and this heavy stuff , many of us can't make a job of will end up back in grass?

I guess its the one who is brave to try it thats the challenge.
I havnt been yet tho.

Bossfarmer · Mar 30, 2020

Bobthebuilder said:
There’s a strip of land east of the A1 that runs from Newcastle to the Scottish Borders that is bloody awful, catch it right and it’s probably some of the best wheat growing land in the country tho

is that the stuff round duns/berwick? i thought that was supposed to be the best of ground?

glasshouse · Mar 30, 2020

Bossfarmer said:
is that the stuff round duns/berwick? i thought that was supposed to be the best of ground?

East of the A1 he said, in england

Bossfarmer · Mar 30, 2020

glasshouse said:
East of the A1 he said, in england

he mentioned scottish borders?

glasshouse · Mar 30, 2020

Bossfarmer said:
he mentioned scottish borders?

Try reading it properly

glasshouse · Mar 30, 2020

East if the a1 north of berwick is only water and seagulls

Farma Parma · Mar 30, 2020

Bossfarmer said:
he mentioned scottish borders?

Some challenging stuff no far south of Berwick Red Clay....
and just south of there is where the world Record Wheat Yield was no long ago 16.52t/ha it all follows that east coast line same here

JWL · Mar 30, 2020

Used to play on some heavy land in South Warwickshire a few years ago, that was a 4 furrow Dowdeswell on the 4240S

Gomer Pyle · Mar 31, 2020

Farma Parma said:
Some challenging stuff no far south of Berwick Red Clay....
and just south of there is where the world Record Wheat Yield was no long ago 16.52t/ha it all follows that east coast line same here

Cheswick buildings?

Farma Parma · Mar 31, 2020

Gomer Pyle said:
Cheswick buildings?

Thats where some of the Red stuff is yeah anyone passing this way cant fail to miss it next to the A1

teslacoils · Apr 3, 2020

By my own rationale, I clearly am not on heavy land ...... 4f, 7718mf. This was a complete bog a month ago. It's not mega ploughing but I'm not smearing the furrow and a lot of greenery being burried.

New Puritan · Apr 3, 2020

@teslacoils - is that a Claydon furrow cracker? Does it just work as a cultivator levelling out the furrows a bit as you go up and down? How much extra HP does it need?

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