Bombproof old bus to pull 6 furrows.

Greenfarmkiwi

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Mixed Farmer
50 years ago dexta and 3f 12 inch plough now 85 hp and 14 inch 3f because the ground is heavier because contractors ploughed the clay up. On better soil mf 6475 will pull dowdswell 6f semi easy at 5 to 6 inches.....all depends on the conditions!
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
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Darlington
50 years ago dexta and 3f 12 inch plough now 85 hp and 14 inch 3f because the ground is heavier because contractors ploughed the clay up. On better soil mf 6475 will pull dowdswell 6f semi easy at 5 to 6 inches.....all depends on the conditions!
Funny I was going to mention a135 pulling 3 furrows and then a 272 pulling 4 it's not the pulling it's the lifting.
 

Bobthebuilder

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Mixed Farmer
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northumberland
He may be on about a 5130, I know of one or two pulling 5, including mine back in the day. 6 is a no tho. A friend did pull a six furrow semi mounted kv with a john deere 6800 of ballested up. It managed well.
We had a 5150 power shift maxxum a few years ago and it wouldn’t touch the 5f vari width lemken plough we had at the time so got rid and got a jd6900 and it pulled it no problem, running a 6f semi mounted now behind 200hp +
 

J 1177

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Durham, UK
We had a 5150 power shift maxxum a few years ago and it wouldn’t touch the 5f vari width lemken plough we had at the time so got rid and got a jd6900 and it pulled it no problem, running a 6f semi mounted now behind 200hp +
There's 5 furrows and 5 furrows, mines a dowsdwell dp8b on 14 inch a full vari width plough would be way too much. Those 6000 series deeres were a hell of a tractor, and I'm not a deere fan.
My uncle had a new 6600 in 1996 and it handled a home made 4m combi and 5f dp7 on some pretty tough land. How I don't know but it did.
 
Just a discussion that arose from the tedium of lugging 4 furrows along at 4.5mph with 100hp in a biggish field.
Hypothetically 20k ish budget, comfortable cab, realistically 150hp plus, any non exotic mainstream badge, not as old as TW 25 era. Just idly batting thoughts around, over lunch. No 40k budget for, eg 6930 etc; sooner have 2 cheaper but still capable horses in the stable for the money, bigger and smaller ones.
DD not an option, so if you are going to disturb soil at all, may as well do it cheaply in one pass with plough.
Any ideas?

Magnum 7240/7250 Pro
 
We had a 5150 power shift maxxum a few years ago and it wouldn’t touch the 5f vari width lemken plough we had at the time so got rid and got a jd6900 and it pulled it no problem, running a 6f semi mounted now behind 200hp +

Used to use 5150 and 5150 Pro on 5F mounted. Also used a 5150 Pro on a 6F semi mounted but on very light soil in Oxfordshire.
 
He may be on about a 5130, I know of one or two pulling 5, including mine back in the day. 6 is a no tho. A friend did pull a six furrow semi mounted kv with a john deere 6800 of ballested up. It managed well.

There is dirt and dirt mind but I've seen 6 furrows semi mounted on a 6910 back in the day and it went ok. Depends how deep and greedy you want to be with furrow widths of course. Conversely I know a place where they ploughed with 5 furrows on a 8000 series Deere with it opened right out fully and it was well matched to the tractor.
 

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