Furrow width

[Michael3112]

whats a good alround furrow width plough is currently at 20” far to wide just looking for abit of advice my ploughing all self taught an its quite a long job to close it up abit an really dont wanna have to do it to many times lol (its not vari width) kuhn 7f multi leader

 

[James]

My kv is manual vari width. It came set to 16 inch and I'll not be altering it.

 

[Michael3112]

My kv is manual vari width. It came set to 16 inch and I'll not be altering it.

Does it make a good job at 16inchs? Mine was at 14inch when it first cane an we thought put out to 20 see how it goes can fairly get accross the ground but just not the best of finish at times

 

[nick...]

My kuhn came on 16 inches and I shut it up to 14.my previous kuhn woukd not work at 16 having a tendency to bulldoze rather than turn the soil.im sure it varies for differant solid though
Nick...

 

[MF 168]

Have a vari width and a 16" solid plough. The vari runs at 16 and only opens out if there's a bit of a curve or link on the furrow I want to straighten. Any wider and I find it's more akin to bulldozing then ploughing. You want the no. 28's for wider furrow widths.

 

[Michael3112]

My kuhn came on 16 inches and I shut it up to 14.my previous kuhn woukd not work at 16 having a tendency to bulldoze rather than turn the soil.im sure it varies for differant solid though
Nick...

Thats what mine does epecisally in lighter soil just trying to get mine to turn it over instead of pushing the soil about

 

[Michael3112]

Have a vari width and a 16" solid plough. The vari runs at 16 and only opens out if there's a bit of a curve or link on the furrow I want to straighten. Any wider and I find it's more akin to bulldozing then ploughing. You want the no. 28's for wider furrow widths.

Just what mines doing, think im going to go for 16

 

[MF 168]

Thats what mine does epecisally in lighter soil just trying to get mine to turn it over instead of pushing the soil about

Narrow in your plough and you'll be flying it . For me there's nothing more satisfying then looking at a well ploughed field and having the furrow press following me if it's not so well ploughed and next to a road .

 

[nick...]

For really smart work you can’t beat 10/11/12inch work which is fine on 10 inch tyres but not much good with 650/710 tyres that are common these days
Nick...

 

[Michael3112]

Narrow in your plough and you'll be flying it . For me there's nothing more satisfying then looking at a well ploughed field and having the furrow press following me if it's not so well ploughed and next to a road .

I dont have a furrow press to help if it not so well ploughed just all the expert giving there opionion when its not perfect

 

[Michael3112]

For really smart work you can’t beat 10/11/12inch work which is fine on 10 inch tyres but not much good with 650/710 tyres that are common these days
Nick...

Im on 710 but may be getting an onlqnd kit this year

 

[James]

Soil type will dictates how wide a furrow you can go I'd have thought. 16 or less likely work most places

 

[Mursal]

Older plough settings, 12" 14" and 16" .......

 

[Mr Charisma]

On my red marl we tend to plough at 14 inch furrows , if the ground is to damp then 16 inch leaves to big a furrow. Which can take to long to weather ,,,,, if dry then not to bad but can't be arsed to change width every 2 days

 

[PSQ]

For really smart work you can’t beat 10/11/12inch work which is fine on 10 inch tyres but not much good with 650/710 tyres that are common these days
Nick...

Surely maximum tyre width depends on the size of the bodies making the furrow, not the width the plough is set at...

- i.e. it doesn't matter if my manual variwidth Lemken on BS40 bodies is set at 12", 14", 16" or 18", a 710 XeoBib fits in a furrow made by a BS40 body (just) regardless of the width setting.

 

[Lofty]

Surely maximum tyre width depends on the size of the bodies making the furrow, not the width the plough is set at...

Of cource it does. Would't matter if the plough was set at 6" or 16" furrow width, the body still leaves the same size whole for the wheels to run in.

As general rule of thumb, the furrow width wants to be 2/3rd of the depth. So at 10" deep you want to be running 16" furrow width. That means a 20" furrow width wants to be ploughing over 13" deep to go any sense.

 

[Michael3112]

Of cource it does. Would't matter if the plough was set at 6" or 16" furrow width, the body still leaves the same size whole for the wheels to run in.

As general rule of thumb, the furrow width wants to be 2/3rd of the depth. So at 10" deep you want to be running 16" furrow width. That means a 20" furrow width wants to be ploughing over 13" deep to go any sense.

Thats quite helpful i have just spent few hours adjusting mine to 16” an i tend to plough at 10”

 

[Lofty]

Actually what I wrote above contradicted myself but you understood what I meant.
I should have said "depth wants to be 2/3rd of the width"

 

[betweenthelines]

The narrower the furrow, the easier it'll be to get a seedbed

 

[john432]

There's a Welsh proverb, makes sense when corn was sowed on the furrows and then harrowed to cover. " Amal ei gwys, amal ei ysgub." Roughly translated, "The more numerous his furrows,the more numerous his sheaves. "
So with the advent of the seed drill, the need for small narrow furrows disappeared, so today ,if the ground flips over at 20" get on with it!