How would you plough this?

[Winklepicker]

I’ve got a 17 acre field which I want to level and reseed, there is a gully (which I want to level) that runs 2 ways across the field marked in yellow)
Which is best way to plough, top to bottom or left to right?

 

[Bury the Trash]

with out knowing the lie of the landand being able to drive around the field with the plough to figure out where to start like you do when it an unknown filed..i would say tip it to the left against thelong straight hedge.

if the gully is a fairly deep , hire a not massive swinger for a day and level it a bit first. or rotavate it a bit to help .

 

[Andrew K]

I wouldnt plough, it will create lumps, lose all moisture and is hardly a levelling tool.
Why not Roundup, then bring in a neighbour with a decent DD drill?

 

[Boohoo]

How deep is the gully? Could you plough up either side of at least part of it and throw into it? You can level parts of a field with a plough if you get creative rather than just starting at the straightest hedge.

 

[7610 super q]

Bulldoze that top hedge out, triangular fields are so last century.
Napalm that bit of woodland on the left.
Give those trees on the right a hiding they won't forget with a chainsaw.
Plough round and round leaving a dirty great big hole in the middle, where you can bury ramblers.

 

[spin cycle]

Bulldoze that top hedge out, triangular fields are so last century.
Napalm that bit of woodland on the left.
Give those trees on the right a hiding they won't forget with a chainsaw.
Plough round and round leaving a dirty great big hole in the middle, where you can bury ramblers.

you're in good form today

 

[spin cycle]

How deep is the gully? Could you plough up either side of at least part of it and throw into it?.

thats what i'd do intially ....then start ploughing the whole lot again starting along the longest straight edge

 

[Lewis821]

Id start at the hedge running along the bottom. Youll cross both gullys, then id drag a cultivator out of the nettles and tie a railway sleeper in between the legs and drag soil into the lows

 

[goodevans]

On a curve 12 o'clock to four o'clock as you would cross both gullys at 45 degrees and no more shorts if you get a ruler out on photo

 

[Werzle]

If the reen as i would call it is a natural low point where water settles it will just re appear in a year or two, better to pipe it first

 

[Flat 10]

I wouldnt plough, it will create lumps, lose all moisture and is hardly a levelling tool.
Why not Roundup, then bring in a neighbour with a decent DD drill?

And that will level how?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I’ve got a 17 acre field which I want to level and reseed, there is a gully (which I want to level) that runs 2 ways across the field marked in yellow)
Which is best way to plough, top to bottom or left to right?

set up a ridge in the “vertical” gully and plough out to either side of it. Use the “horizontal” gulley as a headland mark. Then plough the rest of the field (the remaining top triangle) downhill with the horizontal gulley. The first run of this false headland can be ploughed really deep with the front furrow out of sight to push plenty of soil into the gulley. You’ll then be left with a headland to plough inwards all around the field.

Then get a power Harrow with double levelling boards set low and cross the gulleys at an angle dragging plenty of dirt into them.

Bobs your uncle.

Filled in two open ditches nearly two feet deep like that years ago.

 

[DrWazzock]

Dad levelled many a rig and furrow field using a one way plough just by throwing into the furrows and splitting the rigs. He knew what he was doing though.
That was in days before “natural england“ and English Heritage.

 

[DrWazzock]

Grandad preferred the bulldozer as he could take the hedge out as well as fill in the gulley.

 

[Wolds Beef]

Why get rid of the gulleys? Have they historic significance? Reseed as suggested by roundup and DD. You might be pleased of the gulleys in the new payment schemes!! I remember a local headmaster and Geography teacher waxing lyrical about one of our grass fields which has the remnants of the open field system from the village in it. I now graze it every year with a pretty parcel of Lincoln Red! maiden heifers.
WB

 

[Sid]

How deep is the gully? Could you plough up either side of at least part of it and throw into it? You can level parts of a field with a plough if you get creative rather than just starting at the straightest hedge.

I have a field with a dip in the middle, I always throw it uphill both side making the dip "bigger".
By the time it's been worked down the open furrow has gone.

 

[e3120]

Some of you guys must have oddles of topsoil to be using it as fill. Where rig and furrow was levelled here decades ago, I get loads of stripes where soil is plentiful/scarce.

 

[Lincsman]

Some of you guys must have oddles of topsoil to be using it as fill. Where rig and furrow was levelled here decades ago, I get loads of stripes where soil is plentiful/scarce.

It gets better, remember it was flat with even topsoil a long time ago, its just where the ridge is the topsoil thats now deep down and changed to subsoil.

Crossing the ridges with a power harrow that has a massive bow wave in front soon levels it.

 

[sahara]

Grandad preferred the bulldozer as he could take the hedge out as well as fill in the gulley.

Your grandfather sounds rather like mine.

His preferred, bulldozer option was used quite extensively here!

 

[Mc115reed]

Drop a pipe in it and charge £5 a ton too nearest building site for a soil tip too fill it in