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Replacing our Dowdeswell DP7
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<blockquote data-quote="Mr Charisma" data-source="post: 3160884" data-attributes="member: 2907"><p>No9's I believe were designed for deeper ploughing , the heavy land boys around me all seem to be using No 8's , </p><p></p><p>To me the art is to find the right mouldboard that suits most of your land , my difficulty is that for the clay type soils you need plenty of turn to invert the furrow and yes the scn did this well ,,,,, clay soils by their very nature weather well , our red marl also needs a mouldboard with a similar action to a scn to invert that well , but and it's a big but , nice looking inverted ploughing on red marl is no good to man nor beast ,,,, as the ground just does not weather like clay , ,,,,,,, a good winters frosting will bring it down but if you turn some red marls over when they are a tad unkind and you think you are going to batter them into a seedbed after a couple of weeks then think again .</p><p>I do a lot of work with a neighbour , he runs a KV on no28's , I've got a Besson on no5's. ,,,,,, after a wet spell I can be onto the Besson ploughing up to a week earlier because the no 5 leaves a very open broken furrow , not nice ploughing to look at compared to the 28's I would agree but it lets the ground dry and is open to weathering</p><p> so what I'm trying to get at is find the mouldboard which works well for your land / tyre equipment and not move to far away from it ,,,, I for one would not worry about 1or 2 fields which are at the other end of the spectrum of your average soil type , you want to do a good job across most of your land</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr Charisma, post: 3160884, member: 2907"] No9's I believe were designed for deeper ploughing , the heavy land boys around me all seem to be using No 8's , To me the art is to find the right mouldboard that suits most of your land , my difficulty is that for the clay type soils you need plenty of turn to invert the furrow and yes the scn did this well ,,,,, clay soils by their very nature weather well , our red marl also needs a mouldboard with a similar action to a scn to invert that well , but and it's a big but , nice looking inverted ploughing on red marl is no good to man nor beast ,,,, as the ground just does not weather like clay , ,,,,,,, a good winters frosting will bring it down but if you turn some red marls over when they are a tad unkind and you think you are going to batter them into a seedbed after a couple of weeks then think again . I do a lot of work with a neighbour , he runs a KV on no28's , I've got a Besson on no5's. ,,,,,, after a wet spell I can be onto the Besson ploughing up to a week earlier because the no 5 leaves a very open broken furrow , not nice ploughing to look at compared to the 28's I would agree but it lets the ground dry and is open to weathering so what I'm trying to get at is find the mouldboard which works well for your land / tyre equipment and not move to far away from it ,,,, I for one would not worry about 1or 2 fields which are at the other end of the spectrum of your average soil type , you want to do a good job across most of your land [/QUOTE]
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