When lowering a plough into work, how do you stop the back of the plough digging in before the front? No matter how slowly I drive, I'm still left with small trenches that are hard to fill in. The plough is a five furrow mounted with an elongated top link hole. Does the position of the land wheel make any difference?
Ploughing.
- Thread starter fiddler
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Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
Shorten top link
What plough,,position of depth wheel
Try dropping the plough as your front tyre drops in the furrow ,
What plough,,position of depth wheel
Try dropping the plough as your front tyre drops in the furrow ,
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- Lincs / Notts
Hydraulic top link. ☺
If you shorten the top link too much, the top link pin is tight and the plough can't follow the ground contours.
It's a kuhn 4+1, and I think the land wheel is roughly in the middle of the beam.
Shep
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Can you move the toplink down a hole at the tractor end?
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
Sounds like my old Master 140 ,can you run it in the top hole
farmerbill
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Top hole on plough, bottom hole on the tractor
Lincs Lass
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Need a good top link to run from bottom to top ,,alot of thread out
I have thought about doing this, but I get a little nervous with all the weight and the angle of the top link. It's nearly vertical when fully raised.
Lincs Lass
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Allways ran ours ,middle to top ,,it gives you plenty of control and a well balanced lift angle ,especially if you set your lift height just below max
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
only way to stop it is with a hyd top link,
or you will find it is easier to fill in if you plough the headlands a little deeper and make more soil available
or you will find it is easier to fill in if you plough the headlands a little deeper and make more soil available
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- South wales
Have you got a force functioning your tractor that forces the front in?
Yes, and I do use it, but I still find myself waiting for the front to come down.
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- South wales
Is the back running deeper while ploughing ? Cracking top I learnt off here when trying to plough them out on the headlands is plough it one way then turn it back it fills them better then just carry on with the rest of the headland as normal if that makes sense
I don't think so. Do you end with a furrow on both sides if you do this?
Lincs Lass
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No ,you will finish with one
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- South wales
No you turn one then turn it back over again sounds totally wrong I know it it does work wish I knew the thread it was on someone posted up pictures of them doing it
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- South wales
I think you may be right. Sometimes I don't leave myself enough of a headland and have to lift the plough early to turn.