Which Plough for 130 hp on variable soils?

[DrWazzock]

We have had a DP8 for many years and before that a DP7B on 100 hp. Was never very impressed with the DP7 if I'm honest. Always struggled to match up. The DP8 has been good but is only 12" furrow width and I am not very keen on putting it on 130 hp as its quite lightweight.

We usually have UCN bodies as we dont plough very deep. We like skimmers and plough out grass leys sometimes. Soils range from sand to solid blue clay.
We might go Dowdeswell again but wondered what alternatives there are. We are quite out of touch with Kverneland, Kuhn etc so would appreciate any thoughts on what would be good general purpose models from these manufacturers at a reasonable price secondhand, or what to avoid.

We see a lot of Dowdeswell MA for sale. How do these differ from DP7 and are they worth a go?

Thanks.

 

[Lincs Lass]

I used a Kuhn master 140 ,5x 14inch fixed on slats ,,MF 6190 walked away with it and no problem lifting it ,,even managed it with a lemkin press

 

[jpd]

whatever your nearest friendly dealer stocks
cant think of a bad marque

 

[Drillman]

Dowdeswell MA series aren’t a bad plough. We have a 5 furrow 100 series on DD bodies wound out at 18 furrows pulled with 155hp. It matches up ok and makes a reasonable job. At 22 year old it doesn’t appear to be suffering from having increasingly bigger tractors hitched to it either.