Home made shares

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
I wondered weather i could harden them after, I've heard you heat then quench in oil? we've a forge so it could be possible. I will need to heat them to get the shape anyway
Don't know why you dont make them out of stainless!! TIG'd up, they'd last then.
If you are going to use steel you can "Pack Carburise" them, pack the points in a metal box full of powdered Charcoal and 10% Barium Carbonate, heat the lot up to just over 800C for a given time, this will allow the carbon to diffuse onto the surface of the points. They used to use crushed up animal bones for this process many moons ago. You can use the same process for moldboards as well, especially if you have "gone through" the hardened outer layer (e.g. Fergie plough) this will then harden them again.
 

Ley253

Member
Location
Bath
manganese steel, its work hardening. Surface hardening is not good, wears through in places, and the share looses its shape. Why not just reface the ones you have? Been doing my KV shares for about 12 years!
 

Roy Stokes

Member
Location
East Shropshire
I quite fancy knocking a few out to sell, I've a feeling these fiskars ploughs might come back into fashion at some point, might be wrong though

I like the idea of a "European Classic class" which the Fiskar would be eligible for but Howard 150 pointed out to me that it would have implications as there is room only for one classic entry to the European match which is filled from our current Classic class.
I like the idea of a "Classic World Style" class which Mydexta described to us already running in Scotland, might send an email to the SOP with such a suggestion and copy it's content to here and Match Ploughing on FB
 

Mydexta

Member
Location
Dundee/angus
I like the idea of a "European Classic class" which the Fiskar would be eligible for but Howard 150 pointed out to me that it would have implications as there is room only for one classic entry to the European match which is filled from our current Classic class.
I like the idea of a "Classic World Style" class which Mydexta described to us already running in Scotland, might send an email to the SOP with such a suggestion and copy it's content to here and Match Ploughing on FB


Our class today was a 12" non hydraulic class

In it were

Bomford with hydreins
Ts97 with bonnings
Ts64 with scn
Ts59 with tcn
Ts59 with epic

You could come with a brand new tractor and plough, as long as no hydraulics
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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