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| larry8200 |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 11:32:28
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| 12 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| larry8200 |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 06:39:13
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Originally posted by Danny
Larry just curious what happened when you found that rock? My ground is hard as and loaded with rock which makes me nervous about getting a plough but it really does look like fun.
A plow is going to hold up as well as anything in hard rocky ground. This would have been hours of bucking and jumping with a roto-tiller. New England is known for its rocky fields producing our quaint field-stone walls. The hard frost pushes up new rocks every year, and you pile them around your fields eventually making walls.
And New Hampshire is called "The Granite State" No Joke!!! |
| larry8200 |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 06:26:52
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Originally posted by Talntedmrgreen
...Thought you broke ground a couple weeks back? Got a few plots going now, eh? Lots of pickin depending on what ya plant...
I did one of my neighbors garden a week agao as a test run, but this was the real deal. The roots and rocks were long gone next door. I have 2-3 other gardens to plow as well. one is new, but I'm going over them all with the plow first. Much harder to break the plow than the roto-tiller. And I only have one real nice 36" tiller setup. |
| larry8200 |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 06:15:21
Well first: The hardest job here is blowing heavy snow with my 74 Sovereign, which still has the blower mounted. Its not safe to take it off untill the end of April. The roto-tiller is on my 7016-6 and that doesn't work the engine hard, but beats up everything pretty good. Especially the BGB.
I plowed under an existing garden a week ago and it was an easy job for the B-210 which is a nice tight machine and had a NEW engine when I bought it. That machine pulls as hard (but not as fast) as anything here.
Some of the roots and that rock stopped it dead in its tracks but the hydrolift was able to lift the plow and continue. And there was no damage to anything.
Pulling that plow through established sod worked the 10 horse very hard and wouldn't have pulled that 12" plow at all if it wasn't nicely "scoured" In the future I'll be pulling it with my T-16H which has a sleeve hitch, power lift, and new Carlisle power-Tracs
But where is the fun and challenge pulling with a 16 horse hydro??
Going to grow corn, tomatos, peppers to start with. My next door neighbor has a big pile of aged horse manure and he's going to spread some on for me, then it will have a 6 weeks till planting time. I'm planning on tilling that in as soon as its spread.
Chris, I love 4 cylinder 2 wheel drive Rangers and have started collecting them |
| Danny |
Posted - 04/13/2012 : 05:03:52
Larry just curious what happened when you found that rock? My ground is hard as and loaded with rock which makes me nervous about getting a plough but it really does look like fun. |
| oldsarge |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 22:19:03
SHEESH Larry,That looks like a two mule rock!! |
| Cvans |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 21:39:38
Larry you have two of those trucks now? You must be pretty happy with them.
That plow looks like it was really going deep. That took some grunt.
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| cschmidt62 |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 21:27:59
Are you sure those tractors don't work for the city or state....it seams you have one worker and a dozen supervisors! |
| Talntedmrgreen |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 20:20:52
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Originally posted by Johnb212
Larry, it's interesting that all the working tools ie. plow - dozer blade are on the yellow machines and the orange machines have the light duty stuff.
I think they'd all do the job, but that is a funny observation.
Thought you broke ground a couple weeks back? Got a few plots going now, eh? Lots of pickin depending on what ya plant... |
| skunkhome |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 19:44:00
I saw one report where someone actually broke a coulter on a big rock. I have received a spurt of new maintenance work doing a "get ready" so think this weekend is out of the question for tilling. |
| Johnb212 |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 19:38:48
Larry, it's interesting that all the working tools ie. plow - dozer blade are on the yellow machines and the orange machines have the light duty stuff. |
| B10Dave |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 19:21:23
 Pretty ambitious garden Larry. What are you going to plant? I am thinking of putting the tiller on the BIG TEN this weekend. May enlarge the garden a bit this year. Dave |
| acb10_64 |
Posted - 04/12/2012 : 18:50:08
Man that plow works great! Definitely at the top of my list of attachments to get! |
