wanted: tool for plough, which improves the furrow quality

[freelancer]

Hi,
have a lemken plough with BS 42 slatted boards. In heavy clay does the last furrow sometimes not turn the soil clods wide enough. when i drive back in the other direction, the clods bump agaist my cab steps. I have already improved the cab steps, but is still not satisfying. Does anybody know a tool/Improvement, which i can mount on the last furrow to improve in turning quality? Best regards freelancer

 

[bobk]

Hi,
have a lemken plough with BS 42 slatted boards. In heavy clay does the last furrow sometimes not turn the soil clods wide enough. when i drive back in the other direction, the clods bump agaist my cab steps. I have already improved the cab steps, but is still not satisfying. Does anybody know a tool/Improvement, which i can mount on the last furrow to improve in turning quality? Best regards freelancer

Get a better plough .

 

[Lincs Lass]

Think you will just have to put up with it ,,nothing Ive ever seen that can be mounted close enough to the last furrow ,,Lemken have got a mounted press system but it doesnt touch the last one

 

[snipe]

Extend the slats 6inch

 

[Pushdyke]

Lengthen the top link

If you have a depth wheel lower it a little, plough a bit shallower.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Ran a Kuhn 5 fr on slats and even on knotty land ,,nothing fouled the tractor steps and that was on an MF 6190 that had three ,,what tractor have you got that has such low steps that get clouted

 

[freelancer]

 

[Exfarmer]

How many horse power is that to pull 3 furrows?

 

[freelancer]

JD 6830. But that is not my problem...

 

[Al R]

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Where’s the other half gone?

 

[Nearly]

Where’s the other half gone?

How wide are the furrows? I'd say it's widened out too far to suit the soil?

 

[MrNoo]

What furrow width are you running? Looks some heavy old tat to turn over. I would be narrowing it down, narrow furrow = smaller furrow and if you lean the plough into work a tad should fold it over nicely. Heavy stuff here ploughs best at 12" furrow widths, on a vari width so easy to do

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

What has things come to,
I used to pull a 4 furrow KV and a press on heavy land in rolling countryside up and down the bank, with a 4 cylinder 93 hp, and could do 20 acre in a good day,
Today must be progress

 

[organicguy]

What has things come to,
I used to pull a 4 furrow KV and a press on heavy land in rolling countryside up and down the bank, with a 4 cylinder 93 hp, and could do 20 acre in a good day,
Today must be progress

I s this the evidence that our soils have deteriorated?

 

[idle git]

Doesn't look heavy clay to me tbh, strong land yes but press is doing a fair bit, what depth is the ploughing, looks a tad on the deep side

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I s this the evidence that our soils have deteriorated?

No this is economics of scale that is talked about, applied machinery instead of land

 

[farmerm]

6830 on 3 furrow? I pull 5 on ground at least as heavy with a 6630 and its rolling hill not bowling green flat. Admittedly the 6630 wouldn't take the addition of the furrow press but a 6830 surely would.

 

[tr250]

@freelancer id say your a bit deep and the furrows are too wide looking at how wide to worked area is on the tractor tyre mark id say that it’s at least 18” furrows you would be better with 4 14” furrows there’s not many mouldboards that are designed for that width your plough might be but I doubt it. The only other thing that might help is leaning the plough into work a little it looks not quite up right possibly leaning out of work a little but it’s hard to tell from a photo. Leaning into work will push the furrows over more and leaning out will help it pull into the ground better if it’s hard

 

[freelancer]

plough is set to 44 cm wide. we plough between 25 and 35 cm deep. setting the plough in work direction cause the plough starting to go out of the soil. i am looking more for a extension on the last furrow. this is how it looks like, when wet.

 

[Nearly]

Is the front furrow ploughing the full width?

On my UCN's the most important piece of metal is the tailpiece on the end of the board, do lemken sell an extra piece to just turn the furrow that final %?

Furrow slitters would take a little tension out of the soil as it turns over, letting it fall further?

In the UK we'd be ploughing with 4 x 14" (35cm) in similar conditions?