Ploughing
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Yes split mouldboards would be better.
What width do you plough at ?
I ran slats for years and they're good we were no 8 and 9 before that and they trailed badly but the ploughs were on 14 inch .
Fast forward 20 yrs and I'm back on boards a no28 and a bit more width depth and forward speed and they run clean 99 percent of the time with the exception of a couple of very light fluffy bits
I ran slats for years and they're good we were no 8 and 9 before that and they trailed badly but the ploughs were on 14 inch .
Fast forward 20 yrs and I'm back on boards a no28 and a bit more width depth and forward speed and they run clean 99 percent of the time with the exception of a couple of very light fluffy bits
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
mine only get soil stuck on the back of the boards and front of legs... Never a problem when its dry but it can be a PILA when it builds up and gets too heavy to lift out! . Still, it is handy to get out and stretch the legs every so often.... just so long as it is not too often!
I plough with 16in @ 8-10in depth 7-9 kph depending on terrain.
Slats should definitely help they are a fair bit more expensive to run than boards and leave a looser finish than a no 28 but I still like them. We've still got our slatted plough and I use it every now and then. But the boarded one does most of our work now
- Location
- Co antrim
Slats will kinda crumble the soil which is fine if its dry but if it gets heavy rain afterwards which the soil seems to absorb more than if not slatted boards. U should look at plastic boards as they will run clean with the stickiest of soils. Iv a new plough comin in next few weeks with them for this very reason as i was heart broke with plough not runnin clean
Yep, the no.30 body works a treat as well as giving you a wide furrow bottom for wider tyres and a good inversion!
Never knew anyone used them. What make of plough?
They're big in New Zealand on the black fluffy ground plenty kv running then out there
If you take them on a stony bit do they last?
I dunno I've a mate farms out in the waikato and it's him that tells me that plastic are popular.
I would doubt they'd last long going by the wear rate of the plastic inserts in the kv no30 slats
Slats will help with the soil sticking but in some very light and fluffy soils especially after spring crops going back to winter they will still bulldoze. If you're doing a lot of grass ley they don't bury as well as the No. 28. We ran them for years but I've gone back to No.28s now because we are doing more ley.
- Location
- Cirencester
No, we had a set of experimental black plastic boards on a Overum circa 30 years ago, the brash soils ate them in short order.
- Location
- Co antrim
Well i know of 1 locally with them on and it and wear isnt an issue on the soil round here. We have stones but generally not sharp stones. Its a nh plough which is basicly a overum/kongskilde
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