Classic Ploughing at Home.

[Selectamatic]

Some photos taken earlier today...

Dad's 880, DB C Type Plough with Ransomes TCN bodies.

Ploughed 5 acres in all, first time out for this plough after being rescued from the brambles, giving her a bit of a polish up!

 

[Philip Watkins]

Tidy ploughing that

 

[76masseyman]

Very tidy.



I just worry a bit though.......


Didn't someone else put up pictures of ploughing with a DB........


Then disappear !!

 

[Selectamatic]

Very tidy.



I just worry a bit though.......


Didn't someone else put up pictures of ploughing with a DB........


Then disappear !!

You should be so lucky!!

 

[Philip Watkins]

Very tidy.



I just worry a bit though.......


Didn't someone else put up pictures of ploughing with a DB........


Then disappear !!

Remember what his ploughing was like though, would have done as well with a set of scuffles.

 

[wuddy]

Cracking bit o work! I feel it wasn't just hitched up out the brambles and put to work though some of the bolts are too shiny!

 

[Selectamatic]

Cracking bit o work! I feel it wasn't just hitched up out the brambles and put to work though some of the bolts are too shiny!

No, fair enough, there has been a restoration job, new disks, freeing stuff off, but this is it's first bit of ploughing for many years.

 

[Flat 10]

I hate you a little bit for such good ploughing and nice soil

 

[wuddy]

No, fair enough, there has been a restoration job, new disks, freeing stuff off, but this is it's first bit of ploughing for many years.

been time well spent looking at pictures

 

[yellowbelly]

How did you brighten the breasts up @Selectamatic ?

Or did your dad grease them up really well before he parked it in the brambles

 

[renewablejohn]

How did you brighten the breasts up @Selectamatic ?

Or did your dad grease them up really well before he parked it in the brambles

If it was me I would cheat and replace them with new.

 

[Selectamatic]

How did you brighten the breasts up @Selectamatic ?

Or did your dad grease them up really well before he parked it in the brambles

It was not our old plough, it was one I saw on my travels, winding handles stuck out of the nettles!

They were rusted, but not pitted, at some point I recon the previous owner had given them a rub with an oily rag or such like, they were dirty more than rusted I suppose.

I gave them a quick rubbing with a grinder with a wire wheel on it, then put it in the ground, sandy soil helped shine them up, but I had to jump off at the headlands a fair few times to scrape sticking soil off.

They are not shining properly now, but I would imagine that they will come with more use.

 

[Bury the Trash]

How did you brighten the breasts up @Selectamatic ?

Or did your dad grease them up really well before he parked it in the brambles

good job you didn't say 'perk' them up' might've got by a mod. ...


we call them plates round here.

 

[yellowbelly]

good job you didn't say 'perk' them up' might've got by a mod. ...


we call them plates round here.

We're all breast men in this part of the world.
Other local plough terminology....
discs are called skeaths
landsides are slipes
shins are throats
sighting poles are wad sticks
and the old chaps don't alter their front furrow width, they alter their 'laynes'

 

[Exfarmer]

I, would pay to come and have a play with that!
Shame you are so far away

 

[76masseyman]

We're all breast men in this part of the world.
Other local plough terminology....
discs are called skeaths
landsides are slipes
shins are throats
sighting poles are wad sticks
and the old chaps don't alter their front furrow width, they alter their 'laynes'

Laynes, heard that when being next to the horse ploughing lot.

 

[MrNoo]

Some nice work and some lovely soil, wish we had stuff like that to plough!

 

[Selectamatic]

I, would pay to come and have a play with that!
Shame you are so far away

When your up In North Wales next let me know, your always welcome to call in!

 

[Lincsman]

Why the tin cover hiding whats going on??

 

[Bury the Trash]

We're all breast men in this part of the world.
Other local plough terminology....
discs are called skeaths
landsides are slipes
shins are throats
sighting poles are wad sticks
and the old chaps don't alter their front furrow width, they alter their 'laynes'

i don't ever remember dad saying 'furrow' ......always 'vor '