How many of you guys use a special share for the finish?
Wondering about making one. Hopefully to get more height for the earth furrow and give a cleaner furrow bottom.
How many of you guys use a special share for the finish?
Does it make much difference?I just put a Yl44 on for finishing, I used to have a modified share for my epics when I was doing my opening and finish!
I also use YL57 shares....they were designed for stony/hard ground, basically a narrower version of a 44. YL44 are a good all round share and easy to get hold of, hence common usage.Does anyone on here use to yl 42's for match work? If not, why not? Most people seem to use 44's are they the best?
Tried it, could never get on with it. Might modify and have another go sometime. My standard shares tend to clean the last run out well enough.How many of you guys use a special share for the finish?
As I plough with 57’s most of the time putting the 44 on to finish just keeps the bottom cleaner as the share has cut all the ground and the board can clean it out! Epics aren’t close enough to the ground to clean the finish out so had to modify a share to do itDoes it make much difference?
I had two sets of reproduction boards! Neither were the same shape as genuine (less twist in them)! I still have a set and they go pretty well but just can’t get the final overall look as nice as the genuine ones leave! Both the repro and genuines were brand new and have done about the same amount of work, maybe it’s just me but the genuine ones just seems to put a little bit nicer finish to the job, maybe it is simply down to the fact the soil flows off them better!Can any of you chaps on here tell me how a repro YL 183 ploughs compared to a genuine board, please?
I had some non genuine boards and after two years I changed to genuine. You only had to run your hand over each in turn and the difference in the drag on each was enormous. I admit that some pattern boards seem better than others.I had two sets of reproduction boards! Neither were the same shape as genuine (less twist in them)! I still have a set and they go pretty well but just can’t get the final overall look as nice as the genuine ones leave! Both the repro and genuines were brand new and have done about the same amount of work, maybe it’s just me but the genuine ones just seems to put a little bit nicer finish to the job, maybe it is simply down to the fact the soil flows off them better!
Bobby bought four boards kept two and sold the other two to the late paddy Robertson (kieth Robertson’s father). They practiced together quite a lot and paddy’s boards would never work the same and he changed to genuine in the end. Paddy’s plough is now in the hands of James Magnay, he bought it off Alec Irvine!Bobby Douglas won the British nationals on none genuine boards, but he was unsure who made them
bobby said he did not know who made them, you any idea David who made them ?Bobby bought four boards kept two and sold the other two to the late paddy Robertson (kieth Robertson’s father). They practiced together quite a lot and paddy’s boards would never work the same and he changed to genuine in the end. Paddy’s plough is now in the hands of James Magnay, he bought it off Alec Irvine!
No I don’t, really all happened before my time only through conversation with bobby that I found out. YL’s hadn’t really been heard of in this area until bobby came back from the British and decided he needed to get a plough with yl’s to compete at that level, up until that point he ploughed with epics. Bobby was a great inspiration to me and set the benchmark that I am still trying achieve, he had a belief that one day I would make it to the top! I just wish I had the time to put in that is required to be at the top consistently, but I enjoy every match I get to and a wins always a nice bonus!bobby said he did not know who made them, you any idea David who made them ?
I had two sets of reproduction boards! Neither were the same shape as genuine (less twist in them)! I still have a set and they go pretty well but just can’t get the final overall look as nice as the genuine ones leave! Both the repro and genuines were brand new and have done about the same amount of work, maybe it’s just me but the genuine ones just seems to put a little bit nicer finish to the job, maybe it is simply down to the fact the soil flows off them better!
He had a right to be smiling! He ploughed an absolute cracker of a plot, right from opening to finish there weren’t many plots that day in the vintage mounted that looked as good as Bobby’s! @Howard150 Did you win the British that year as well?When I started aged 61 I had a grey fergie and a Robin plough with Epics. A trip to Weslake and I converted it to YL183s, non genuine. I was not a complete novice but whatever I did this plough always pulled hard. Experienced men tried to help but nobody could put a finger on it. I was not happy with the work so I bought some genuine YL165s . Next season I qualified for the Nationals for the first time and the plough pulled as though I had taken a furrow off. The pattern boards would take a shine under certain conditions but as soon as you ploughed anything abrasive they returned to grey.
Speaking of Bobby Douglas, the year he won the Nationals was my first National, the first (possibly) at Crockey Hill. He had completed his plot in good time and was walking down the line with a big grin on his face. By the time he got to me I had just finished also and his grin got bigger, not because my plot was little more than poor but because I had finished the wrong way(one and only time). He stopped and we chatted and along came dear old Derek Hockley who was a steward. He said "I am going to have to dock you 20 points" to which I replied "I think you had better because the whole world has noticed".