John 1594
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
You have no problem driving straight John,
opening with a 4 furrow was never going to be easy, I used to carve out a single back furrow with my 5 furrow conventional, then on the way back across the field I would run the disc side of the front share up the disc cut from the first run and carve out a single furrow in the opposite direction, the plough would be tilted up to the right ( as viewed from the rear ) and tilted back slightly on the top link, the 2nd furrow would deepen the middle of the opening just as it would do if opening with a 2 furrow, the 3rd furrow would turn in the 1st run of the opening plus fresh soil from underneath the 1st run at 2/3rds to 3/4 depth to make the 1st furrow of the crown with the 4th and 5th furrow making the 2nd and 3rd furrows of the crown getting deeper to full depth, with the plough still tilted up but not quite as much the plough was then pulled back across the field turning in the front furrow of the 2nd run of the opening to make the ridge with the rest of the furrows getting progressively deeper until the rear furrow was at full depth.
In my opinion this is the best option for any multi furrow conventional plough to start a plot in an arable situation
First mistake i made was when i set in for the second run, if i had set in at a slight angle, it would have held the plough over, which had swung tight on the check chains, and prevented that slight dog leg at the start of the run and i got it back over to where it needed to be
How i did it, was to take a single furrow with the rear body. Turned round, then set tractor in the furrow "the wrong way round", ie land side in the furrow,. Ive set the wheels to be 40" inside width, which then meant that the rear furrow was taking just up to the wall, until i moved it over so the point was up against the bottom heel of the furrow slice, lengthend the rh lift rod and cocked the plough over until the 3rd furrow was taking a half cut.
When i turned round at the end of the run i was quite pleased with it, but the smile soon vanished when i tried to plough it back in!!!