How To Plow With A Subcompact/Kubota BX Tractor 

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It's nice to hear you thinking and working through it. Thanks

A great instructional video, I loved the detail and problem solving advice

You guys are the Top Gear of the tractor world. "Peanut" is the Stig. Best channel I've subscribed to in years! Love it! Great videos, guys.

I really like how you show the good the challenging too. I grew up on a farm, and its an art to get them rows perfect with a big tractor (try it with a mule). Goin ofer to check your facebook page. cheers.

I bought a brand new bx 1880 about 6 months ago i love it but the attachments are expensive .. So far I hace the 54" belly mower .. Front loader with a cutting-edge and a ballast box .. I did get some kagnetic lights and modified the ballast box to accept a reese hitch and i bought a rear blade and added snow skids to it .. So far it has been great .. I also put a quick hitch on it and am looking for a york rake now .. Everuthing adds up so damn fast.

Seems that one could design a plow which will actually shift to the left far enough so that it doesn't have to be pulled sideways, or with the tractor's 3 point hitch offset. As other commenters have mentioned, the coulter needs to be 1/2" or so to the left of the plow bottom to leave a clean furrow. This plow just looks to be built for a wider tractor than a subcompact. Are you guys planning to build a plow which will better fit a subcompact?

yes after seeing the view of the plow from the air the cutter wheel needs to go over 3 inches over to the left side of the track

Explanation is more than the performance!!!!!

I made a BX work for plowing for a few years but I traded in for a B2620 to get more clearance. I have only had turf tires on my tractors. The 2620 works much better for all ground work.

It an amazing little tractor

Power, cool, like !

You are very creative and engineering savvy. How hard would it be to build a middle buster that has the wire wings used for digging potatoes? The Italians build them to go behind the two wheeled walk behind tractors. It allows allot of dirt to fall of the potatoes while digging.

Dang it Peanut, use the diff lock!

Thanks for the video!

Love your videos guys! Keep on keeping on.

Impressive!

i think you need to move the coulter to the left a few inches , you can clearly see two strips of grass being turned over , in the top view . 14.30

Something Ive noticed is the plow can shift 3 inches, but the sod cutting disk cannot. If you look at the sod being turned over, there are two lines of sod being turned. One has a nice clean edge from where the disk is cutting, and a second torn up line from where the plow is literally ripping through the sod. If you engineer a way to make that cutting disk adjustable laterally, you could improve the efficiency and have cleaner turnover.

i agree put the coulter on the other side of the frame

That plow and tractor seem to be doing a nice job in that field, and the tiller can take over after that.

I run a 14" plow so it's cutting behind the rear tire and I stay out of the furrow. The axle clearance on the BX is too low to run in the furrow. Staying on top and driving on the edge of the cut allows a deep and wider cut without bottoming out tractor.

might try letting then the top link out a bit. plow point is digging , draging interfereing with the total plow. might help.

Need me a plow for fall. I have to turn it because the guys who used to farm my site used tractors so big they seem to have created another layer of fragipan.

how deep max can that thing cut? wonder how well it could be used for french drains? or at least half depth

how does a gage wheel work? I thought the hydraulic position did that. It does pivot at the bottom pins but the top is stationary..I have a Bx 2200 kabota

That plow works on that tractor well enough but still needs some work to make it really work right. It is overshooting the furrow a bit because its not taking a big enough bite. The 3" or so of adjustment to move the plow over was not enough to get it aligned quite right. A narrower tire, at least on the furrow side, may help move the tractor over a bit to take a bigger bite. It's hard to say if that will be enough to stop it from overshooting the furrow. Maybe wheel spacers as well, if such a thing exists for these tractors. The problem that you have with a rough edge on the cut looks like its actually because the plow is crooked behind the tractor. The coulter disc is making a nice cut, but the plow blade is actually going beyond it and having to cut a new edge farther out. This is easy to see from the overhead shots around the 15:45 mark. That's why from the overhead shot it looks like its cutting two strips instead of one clean one. That one should be able to be fixed by cutting that corner off that bracket so that you can use those other holes like he said at the start of the video. Maybe a smaller plow would set up easier on this tractor but it was interesting to see that you could probably use this bigger plow if you really needed to.

What would happen if you were tilling virgin ground that likely would have large rocks. Would the BX series work or should I go to the B series?

Hoh! what a rupach job you are making - sorry to be blunt but I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, the tears are just streaming! I have to put up with fowk working " small 80 hp tractors suitable for stable work and grass topping" which in actual fact can pull up to 5 furrows in 2WD but struggle with 2 or 3 fur's because no one knows much about it. May I suggest to one and all here, - go research Harry Ferguson's System - the linkage geometry is half the battle - lost on ALL the big and modern tractors of today, you will find all you need to know about good plowing and ploughing wherever you live. Good Luck

Nice !!!

great stuff is this plow attachment available outside the U S A i am in melbourne Australia

Is there an implement out there that isn’t as aggressive? I’m looking for something I can use to dig a shallow trench for silt fence installation

Could you dig a 2m deep trench with this tractor?

Is this a BX1870? 2370? I'm looking at them right now but from what I've seen the 1870 has smaller tires and this video proves why that wouldn't be good.

How do you plow with a set of wheel spacers ..? I have a JD 4052r with factory spacers (about 9 inches wider). I also have a middle buster and am wondering how you line up the rows with one of these? So 2 questions....plowing either with the moldboard plow or middle buster ....with wheel spacers? What's it look like? Thanks K W Olson, Novice farmer PS love your demo videos. Am looking at your grapple...future birthday present.

it looks like the cutter wheel is cutting a little off to the right hand side a couple of inches maybe 3 inches

Peanut's stick legs make me laugh

you could turn the Cat 1 hitch pin around and that should give enough clearance to miss the stabilizer as well as the coulter.

7:05 Such an interesting soil color! Is that fertile? Location??

That tractor with plow a lot better if you start in the center and work your way from the center to the outside

Excellent video the kabota does a really good job

Could the pin on the right side be installed on the inside of the mounting plate? That "should" get you where you want your plow to sit.

The coulter is Not in front of the plow... it looks to be about 3 or 4 inches to the right.

So a jd 3r could do a 3 or 4 blade and a jd 4r can do a 4 or 5 blade plow

After watching your most recent plow video's, can I be confident that I can use a colter on the compact plow (yellow) I bought from you last year on my 2-yr old B-26?

A Farmall Cub would plow that twice as fast and efficient 70 years ago.

Can you not get a swing plough attachment? I know you need a bit of weight to make the plough spin over but it would save time in not having to keep reversing up.

Hi, my uncle just got a BX1880 with a Belly Mower, Its basically going to mow but a box or blade would be nice for the 3pt, what width would be good to go with? I'd rather give up width for better performance..may push a lil snow, mess with a gravel driveway nothing too crazy.

So I've noticed in your older videos you have Bobcat compact tractors, newer seem to be Kubota.... Which are better? If you were buying today, which would you go with?!

nice

That peanut has definitely been roasted more than once

I used a 50lb. wheel weight on the outboard wheel, worked much better.

Would you use this kind of plow on ground that may have large rocks ?

Would you plow in 4wd or 2wd?

Where are you located? That’s the “reddest dirt” I’ve ever seen!

I use a compact massy 1233 with single row plow. I get better results by using a higher gear. I uses speed to keep the rolling the soil upside down. I plow bottom up to top down and pickup the plow at the end of the row then drive to the top of the then drop the plow at top row. I never backup this way and use the last strip in the middle of garden as a path. Keep up the speed, timing of the lift and drop there is no need for coulter at all.

Nice but seems too deep? What veletable for this pototoes?

I have way more rocks in my soil.

I thought they stooped plowing and went to no till growing... Just spray Round- Up and kill it all then plant crops...

If you hit a stub or hidden rock how much damage would it do to this plow? Do you have accessories to remove stubs? Thanks for the video.

Can the plow be offset to the right so the tractor is level?

Good job! What horsepower is that model?

Your Colter needed to be moved left . It needs to be in line with the plow point .

Peanut is gonna come off that tractor one day and fry your jaws barking orders like you do. J/K good videos.

Are these not available anymore?

Can you use this with a quick hitch?

Why don't you guys back land

What size plow is this? Looks like a 14".

How deep can this plow go?

Two words - Seat Belt

You need to bring in an old farmer to show you how to set it up. You still don't have it right. The plate in the back is not setting down in the furrow. The plow was pulling crooked too, not straight with tractor. Been too many years ago for me to explain better.

Could a guy run this plow on a bx1880?

That red soil though.

How come peanut looks like a old man ?

Great video. Do you guys ever use any other brand of compact tractors other than John Deere and Kubota? Would be nice to see a Mahindra or something. Regardless still great videos

Thats a small tractor for a large continent

Don’t think I’d want them ploughing any of my ground

hi nice video you helped me a lot but i just have a few questions. I have a Kubota gl 23 it not a big one but its enough cause i live in a small greek island and the fields here are small and rocky i have a double plow like this one www.car.gr/classifieds/tractors/photos/1202906/ sorry the advertisment is in greek my problem is that its very light and it can not go in the ground easy should i add some weight on it or the angle must be different for eample the ends must point a bit down please help me out.

Look at that clay

Mini minusculo.

Not enough power

Here's a BX plowing, go to about 700. Good day and lots of fun turning dirt. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PQsJeI-H2to.html

These tractors do what he says if you go slower.

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Need to get a gimbal before filming anything else. Your cameraman is making us dizzy!

BX worthless I have one wish bought a B series.

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I just am not impressed with the way the furrows are being flipped over there is alot of grass where the plow didnot flip it all the way why or how is this happening it's z good tractor and plow just something is not right

That's totally unfair! No rocks, hunks of marine clay or roots.

learn first and then do

TRACTOR IS IN DANGER OF TIPPING OVER.....You should have had everything adjusted perfect before demonstrating a dangerous episode with the tractor deep in a rut.

This video is a joke! The design of the plow is all wrong and you stuck it on a tractor too small to handle it.If the plow was designed correctly it would turn the sod completely over. Your plow does not do that b/c of design. Another thing, the over all plow is too long in length. The closer the plow bottom is to the rear axle of the tractor the easier a plow will pull. Go back to the drawing board

People, should not be allowed to give instructions,when thay are not qualified to do so. a little knowlage is a dangerous thing

If you are going to do a job that requires a real tractor, you hire someone that owns a real tractor. Pretend is great if you are a preteen, when you grow up, you are supposed to learn the difference between fantasy and reality.

I could do better with a spade it’s crap

Irritating video. I have a kubota....instead of all the BS at the beginning -JUST PLOW WITH IT..... DAMN.......

stop yammering..pls

how does a gage wheel work? I thought the hydraulic position did that. It does pivot at the bottom pins but the top is stationary..I have a Bx 2200 kabota