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Competition Ploughing
First ever attempt at Opening - rate my first go
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<blockquote data-quote="jd24" data-source="post: 6211174" data-attributes="member: 66726"><p>Lol no worrie i like all the pointers amd criticism.</p><p>I thought it was way too complicated to set up however initially but once you get going you watch the plough working you soon see what everything does.</p><p>Initially i had the skimmers on furrow1, 3 and were too shallow and every so often a small line of grass was still sticking up. I then made Skimmer 1 too deep and was practically ploughing. Skimmer 4 actually is quite worn but i had to get on with it as it was. </p><p>Definitely the landslides are taking some abuse. When the plough engages i have to drop it deep to get it to go into the work. If i dont do that the plough just pushes away from the plough ground and look like someone spreading butter on toast with wavy lines lol. My front tyres are 13.6inches and the rears are a little bigger and i have to drive away from the edge about 1-2 inches therefore the first furrow is being dumped into a crater lol but its likely the front furrow is actually being force to turn over a little more than 12inches.</p><p></p><p>All that said im relatively happy with the results. Most of the grass is inverted and buried with no spray used so the greens are happy or maybe not now soil structure is now so precious(we cant win).</p><p>In total I ploughed 24acres on 3 fields in 2 3/4 days and about 210litres off juice (not cider) on not sqaure fields, awkward shaped fields! A lot of reversing finishing off fields which you wouldnt get with a reversible well not quite as much.</p><p>On the straight running i worked out on my phone app i was doing 1.45 acres an hour. Headland ploughing about 0.5acre and hour...painfull. You finish the main ploughing and think you are done but it takes ages finishing off!! </p><p>We are never going to plough more than what i did so i makes sense to keep the plough for the rare occasion. I am rebuilding a 4wd UTB (Universal) 550 65hp. I wonder if that would pull the plough. I still admire that the plough was bought by my dad in the 70s and it was about 20 yrs old then lol. Have we gone new kit crazy??? Probably not.....</p><p>There is something incredibly satisfying about ploughing...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]791732[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jd24, post: 6211174, member: 66726"] Lol no worrie i like all the pointers amd criticism. I thought it was way too complicated to set up however initially but once you get going you watch the plough working you soon see what everything does. Initially i had the skimmers on furrow1, 3 and were too shallow and every so often a small line of grass was still sticking up. I then made Skimmer 1 too deep and was practically ploughing. Skimmer 4 actually is quite worn but i had to get on with it as it was. Definitely the landslides are taking some abuse. When the plough engages i have to drop it deep to get it to go into the work. If i dont do that the plough just pushes away from the plough ground and look like someone spreading butter on toast with wavy lines lol. My front tyres are 13.6inches and the rears are a little bigger and i have to drive away from the edge about 1-2 inches therefore the first furrow is being dumped into a crater lol but its likely the front furrow is actually being force to turn over a little more than 12inches. All that said im relatively happy with the results. Most of the grass is inverted and buried with no spray used so the greens are happy or maybe not now soil structure is now so precious(we cant win). In total I ploughed 24acres on 3 fields in 2 3/4 days and about 210litres off juice (not cider) on not sqaure fields, awkward shaped fields! A lot of reversing finishing off fields which you wouldnt get with a reversible well not quite as much. On the straight running i worked out on my phone app i was doing 1.45 acres an hour. Headland ploughing about 0.5acre and hour...painfull. You finish the main ploughing and think you are done but it takes ages finishing off!! We are never going to plough more than what i did so i makes sense to keep the plough for the rare occasion. I am rebuilding a 4wd UTB (Universal) 550 65hp. I wonder if that would pull the plough. I still admire that the plough was bought by my dad in the 70s and it was about 20 yrs old then lol. Have we gone new kit crazy??? Probably not..... There is something incredibly satisfying about ploughing... [ATTACH=full]791732[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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