Furrow Splitter on mouldboard

[Albert]

Has anybody got any experience of running furrow splitters bolted onto a plough mouldboard?

I was thinking of trying a set on a lemken with w52 mouldboards.

Has anyone else done this? What are the pros and cons?

Thanks

 

[Spud]

Pro = half size furrow slices, easier subsequent cultivations
Cons - a real pain in stony ground, wear fast so remove them on kind land.
The ones I used were bolted to the wing, rather than mouldboard, which were very good on the right land. Terrible on stone.

 

[Agriimark]

Only used once at old job. Work great on heavy ground. Think you can get weld on and bolt on. We had the bolt on but took them off when we got a press for the plough.

 

[Exfarmer]

not good if you have lot of stone

 

[Ruston3w]

Good on heavy but not much fun ploughing headlands/soft ground. Nightmare on sand with straw.

 

[Bramble]

Have welded furrow splitters on both our Dowdeswell ploughs. Do a good job on our heavy clay, maybe equivalent to pulling half a furrow extra

 

[nick...]

Used them all the time when running dowdeswells and done a great job.got spaldings weld on parts and templates which made job easy to do.never seen them available for current Kuhn plough.woukd defiantly need a template to ensure correct fitting.would still use them if I could.
nick...

 

[Lincsman]

I used to weld an old power harrow tip on the wing in line with scratch marks , about 1.5" length, it worked fine and left a cut on top of the furrow to split from, but wore surprisingly fast

 

[curlietailz]

We have heavy land and I really like them
Bolt on ones
The heavy slabs are sliced down the middle so easier drying and cultivating
Downside?
They can snap off at the bolt
But tend to wear down instead of snapping off

love them

 

[Lincsman]

We have heavy land and I really like them
Bolt on ones
The heavy slabs are sliced down the middle so easier drying and cultivating
Downside?
They can snap off at the bolt
But tend to wear down instead of snapping off

love them

Where are they bolted on?

 

[jd6420s]

I used the bolt on ones from Spaldings on my Kverneland plough. They worked well on the heavy land but I have some stony land also and I snapped a few off. It was a bit of a pain taking them on and off so I haven't used them for a couple of years.

 

[curlietailz]

Where are they bolted on?

From Spaldings I think
They bolt onto the mouldboard about front and middle ish
Behind the “shin?”
I think .... there is a hole

 

[PSQ]

Used to make our own for a Lemken BS25 from a length of wedge shaped hardened strip, (40mm, smaller then bucket edging), made to a Spaldings design. It was welded about a 3rd way along the 14" share from the point on the back edge just before it meets the mouldboard. We'd plough the paint off the new metal, before welding the 3" long wedges at the angle scribed by the soils scratch marks. Made a reasonable job, but it wasn't earth shattering (no pun intended).
Stopped doing it when we started using a Lemken plough press, which does about 10 to 15x the work of splitters.

 

[Barleymow]

Cut ransomes skimmer points in half to make them ,tend just to use on front furrow now

 

[Exfarmer]

We used the spaldings weld on ones for about an hour, then had to cut them off as stones jammed betweem them and the skimmers. I was f******* p******** off with the things