After everyone’s gone home!

[Northdowns Martin]

Sorry if asked before. How have hosts reinstated their fields once ploughing finished? Last time I hosted I made a big mistake and power harrowed at 90 degrees to open furrows??‍ Still got waves 11 years later

 

[chaffcutter]

Favourite seems to be to disc the ploughed plots, then disc the whole field at a 30 degree angle to help level it all up.

 

[MrNoo]

Sorry if asked before. How have hosts reinstated their fields once ploughing finished? Last time I hosted I made a big mistake and power harrowed at 90 degrees to open furrows??‍ Still got waves 11 years later

Lol!!! I ploughed deep at 90 to the plots and then combi drilled but like you, have some gentle waves down the tramlines but not too bad. Next time I will get a cultivator or set of discs in pre ploughing but I only have a small match (25-30 Fergies)

 

[arcobob]

Lol!!! I ploughed deep at 90 to the plots and then combi drilled but like you, have some gentle waves down the tramlines but not too bad. Next time I will get a cultivator or set of discs in pre ploughing but I only have a small match (25-30 Fergies)

That method seems favourite. My experience is that bad ploughing is unsurprisingly more difficult to cover but the worst of all are little horticultural plots which really are ridge and furrow with little flat land in between.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Thank you Gents for replies. I went with Opice vari disc to fill open furrows then went at 45 to plots. Its now getting the full Topdown treatment over whole field.

 

[farmerm]

 

[MrNoo]

I am ashamed to admit to knowing a few who would do a plot that would require such a device and am sure some of my earlier ploughing career plots would fall into that category.....!!!
One thing I did find very interesting when ploughing at 90 degrees to the match plots was that there were a couple who must have been ploughing very deep as I brought buried fresh stubble up and you could see this clearly with the whole plot areas leaving stubble on the top, the rest was relatively clean, I wont name names but one is regularly on here, used to ploughing sand ground though.

 

[colhonk]

After several years of getting seasick going over the riggs and furrows of 2 friends of fergy matches,,,,,,,,,,,,I now have put my tramlines the same way as the plots were ploughed

 

[Cordiale]

We did some practice plots in a field last year, my mate used a rexius twin press at right angles to the ploughing with plenty of levelling board. I have sprayed at right angles to the ploughing all year and could not tell where the ridges or furrows were, I was very pleased.

 

[wuddy]

We did some practice plots in a field last year, my mate used a rexius twin press at right angles to the ploughing with plenty of levelling board. I have sprayed at right angles to the ploughing all year and could not tell where the ridges or furrows were, I was very pleased.

carrier with levelling boards does the same job as the twin, just need plenty of horses to pull a wave of soil with you to take the crowns to the finished