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Only if you’re a millionaire
Ha, I think they are actually.
Maybe they were trying to clear the snow??
Only if you’re a millionaire
Not sure what they are doing or who it is, got sent the photo this morning, the supplier wouldn’t divulge the culprit!!
It is damage to the soil biology that is the problem. Very few soil creatures can survive being frozen solid, bacteria, fungi, protazoa or nematodes will all be wiped out. In a normal British winter the top layer may freeze, but everything living below that stays above 0 degrees C will soon re-colonise the top bit when it thaws out and warms up. By ploughing down snow, the whole plough depth could become frozen and so it will take much longer for the any surviving biology to grow back. Since the invention of chemical fertilisers, farmers are not reliant on the soil biology for the major components of nutrition and so this may be no worse than ploughing in the summer when all the biology gets dehydrated to death instead.
Our grandfathers would have been highly reliant on biological nutrient cycling to feed their crops, and so the effect of ploughing down snow would have been much more noticeable to them, hence this saying from the past.
Only thing I can think of is he’s doing some sort of calibration run
If not
Obviously de-icing the field!Forget ploughing!!!View attachment 640222
If you had a Caterpillar on the front then you might of!!!Just finishing a field we haven't been able to get finished since mid December. View attachment 640328
Not many birds following you.
Have always fancied a d6vhp. don't know how reliable they are .I've heard d5vhp have final drive problemsIf you had a Caterpillar on the front then you might of!!!
Proper tractor. Sweet @rob hJust finishing a field we haven't been able to get finished since mid December. View attachment 640328
I've got a 75E and 8 furrow besson for sale if that would help.Have always fancied a d6vhp. don't know how reliable they are .I've heard d5vhp have final drive problems
Possibly because......I thought I would have a look and see what information I had from the past, and see whether or not farmers ploughed in snow. I reckoned the best place to start was "The Diaries of William Brewis of Mitford". He was brother to an ancestor of the late Henry. Wm's spellings and grammar are repeated.
1847. Sat 2 Jan: A cold stormy day I have had four plows at work today, but we can scarcely get out at the hedges, being so hard blown full of hard snow but it is only for Turnips, which makes us not so much particular.
38th week Sep 13-19 A remarkable fine harvest. The Irish reapers have been very plentiful and the wages low viz. Men 12 shillings per week and Countrymen 15/- plenty of ragged and Lowsy Irishmen, they left our Beds in a sad state full of living vermin.
Last entry for the year:
This ends the year 1847 it has been a good Year for me, every thing of farm produce likewise Beef and Mutton have been in proportion good prices.
I assume he was not too concerned about ploughing in snow, and his Turnips must not have suffered otherwise it woould likely have been mentioned.
Except that in continental Europe and N America and Canada, it is far colder than here and freezes to a great depth. Yet they crop just fine.
I hear you about the mitigating effect of fertiliser though.
I thought I would have a look and see what information I had from the past, and see whether or not farmers ploughed in snow. I reckoned the best place to start was "The Diaries of William Brewis of Mitford". He was brother to an ancestor of the late Henry. Wm's spellings and grammar are repeated.
1847. Sat 2 Jan: A cold stormy day I have had four plows at work today, but we can scarcely get out at the hedges, being so hard blown full of hard snow but it is only for Turnips, which makes us not so much particular.
38th week Sep 13-19 A remarkable fine harvest. The Irish reapers have been very plentiful and the wages low viz. Men 12 shillings per week and Countrymen 15/- plenty of ragged and Lowsy Irishmen, they left our Beds in a sad state full of living vermin.
Last entry for the year:
This ends the year 1847 it has been a good Year for me, every thing of farm produce likewise Beef and Mutton have been in proportion good prices.
I assume he was not too concerned about ploughing in snow, and his Turnips must not have suffered otherwise it woould likely have been mentioned.