Deere 6430
Member
Trying to get this plough dilemma sorted and need everyone’s help with the boards.
How many people run slatted boards? Our ground won’t shine boards, we are on a medium loam ground. It doesn’t stick to the points shins etc but from the start or midway on the board to the end, once it sticks it sticks, it’s pretty hard even to lever it off with a spade after every run. A small amount of our ground is a heavier clay and it will then scour off to a degree.
Putting a shine on the boards with a grinder is a) time consuming and b) it only makes a marginal difference. Don’t plough every year and putting grease on the boards doesn’t solve the problem either.
Once the boards get blocked it doesn’t make a very good job, tends to push the soil over. The boards are Dowdeswell UCN so not the best board hence the reason to change.
Would I be better with slats or just a better solid board? The options are an Amazone or most likely a Kuhn. I want to bury the trash and some black grass and we do plough out grassland within the arable rotation in a semi organic soon to be a fully organic system so it must make a good job hence why I keep wondering if the slats may be a better option as they won’t block? Or so I’m told.
I can’t find a demo plough to try as they are all too big for our tractor. dont know anyone locally with slats but then so many no longer plough. I am specifying discs on all furrows to help in the grass situation.
All help appreciated.
How many people run slatted boards? Our ground won’t shine boards, we are on a medium loam ground. It doesn’t stick to the points shins etc but from the start or midway on the board to the end, once it sticks it sticks, it’s pretty hard even to lever it off with a spade after every run. A small amount of our ground is a heavier clay and it will then scour off to a degree.
Putting a shine on the boards with a grinder is a) time consuming and b) it only makes a marginal difference. Don’t plough every year and putting grease on the boards doesn’t solve the problem either.
Once the boards get blocked it doesn’t make a very good job, tends to push the soil over. The boards are Dowdeswell UCN so not the best board hence the reason to change.
Would I be better with slats or just a better solid board? The options are an Amazone or most likely a Kuhn. I want to bury the trash and some black grass and we do plough out grassland within the arable rotation in a semi organic soon to be a fully organic system so it must make a good job hence why I keep wondering if the slats may be a better option as they won’t block? Or so I’m told.
I can’t find a demo plough to try as they are all too big for our tractor. dont know anyone locally with slats but then so many no longer plough. I am specifying discs on all furrows to help in the grass situation.
All help appreciated.