Nice video, I've never seen these disc plows this large and in gangs hitched together, they do a good job breaking ground and stubble loose. And the older tractors still going strong he must be vigilant it maintaining all the equipment. God bless him.
Those old two cylinders were one of the best tractors ever built. Before that it was the old Rumley oil pull along with Hart Par and a few others life the odd oil pull engines. I grew up on an old "D" that used to be my grandfather's a " H" & a "A" my father bought in pieces that we put together. The " A " came with bad piston & cylinder. I talked him into buying a cylinder bored 90 over with high compression pistons. That thing was never short on power.
Brings back memories of growing up on the farm in NC Kansas back in the fifties. I spent many hours pulling what I think was a Krause oneway disc. We called it "the kralice" but I'm thinking that was just a mispronunciation of Krause. Every once in a while the tail end of the oneway would take off in hard ground and just about pass up the tractor.
Theres still a few die hard one way ploughers here in Aus. We use a Chamberlain plough, a 24 disc job that can be opened up to around 18 feet and a 14 disc that takes about a nine foot cut. If set properly they take very little power to pull, but get it a little wrong and it makes a huge difference . They have a lot of different settings that all change when you open them up wider or narrow them for different soils or conditions. Back in the 70s it wasnt uncommon for triple 24s or twin 28 disc one way ploughs to be pulled around. Nowadays they are almost frowned apon.🤷🏻♂️. Iv never seen five of those beasts pulled around though, awesome video mate.👍🏻👍🏻
I loved seeing these one ways at work! Lots of fond memories and many days pulling two. Quarter after quarter. You could get a gang of two down the road so that was the usual configuration. But one guy I worked for had 4 sections of land all together in a bunch. He would plow them with with a gang permanently tied of 4 or 5 15 footers. Pulled it with 1940’s model D6 Cat. That rig would just do those sections. That was one hot and dirty booger! The dust just boiled off those tracks. A moistened kerchief needed to be worn over your nose and mouth. You didn’t drive it so much as herd it around the field. I think he used that set up through the late 80’s. Nothing smelled better than a freshly plowed field when you were done onewaying.
I spent my summers summer fallowing what we called a Wheatland plow. One way disc. No hydraulics. Big long handles that I couldn’t adjust. Once it was down that’s where it stayed. I think ours was ten feet wide. I would go around and around in circles all day long all summer long.
Those 2 cyl's definetley sound much better than the 1086!!! I love hearing more that one running off synch just a little. The 730 had little traction slippage but the 80 didn't.
I'd love to buy a couple of these , I'm in Ohio and always thought these looked like a good implement for certain purposes, we have a farm around Russel Kansas , I've got to try and get a couple of these located to bring home and play with.
Why all the erosion-inducing, soil drying tillage? Why not just plant or seed right in the stubble from last season and reduce erosion, save moisture, save fuel, save on tillage equipment, tractor hours, man hours and at the same time, increase the health of soil with more residue on the surface and in the growing layer? Tillage is so 1950s.
I had one Oklahoma farmer came to South Dakota. Helped him often farming and he would plow the fields like that round and round first time the go to middle and go around backwards the second trip never seen anyone do that but didn't have a furrow in the middle after three trips if summer fallowing
There is nothing wrong with a one-way! They still have there place on the farm. Also certain areas of this country is not suited for 100% no till. Especially in areas that don’t see rain for month at a time and with out moisture to activate most of the chemicals it’s a big waste of money also.
Am doubtful that hitch on lead disk plow can last very long with that much drag. We used one ways for years on small acreage making left 90 degree turns going in rectangular pattern. Even with some what rocky soil, plowing was beautiful. Plowing out the turn corners were a rough ride. Never used mold board plow but can guess they were higher maintained. We never had to replace bearings like is common on tandom disks and offset plows. One ways worked great throwing dirt back up on terraces. Getting wind blown dust in open cab tractor is not pleasant and usually not avoidable because of pattern of path. This is one reason tandom disk are more common being that they can go with the wind so driver and tractor can stay out of the dust. Listing also called bedding created hills or rows. Flat plowing created so much blowing dust that Kansas and other mid country states lost a great amount of top soil creating significant crop income loss. Bedding gave hills about 36 ranging to 42 inches apart to creat wing breaks similar to rapids in a river. Only the tops of the hills could be blown. Also the hill gave depth in lower area of hill conserving moisture.
Terry, only the front one way is attached to the tongue, the others are held to the tractor with cables and a heavy clevis. He has the system figured out well.
If you're pulling just one, it's no problem on dirt roads. For the double hitch or more, the front one stays as it and the others move easily into road position and trail along in single file.
Moldboard plowing. These machines' design were the early attempts at shallow tillage and leaving part of the crop residue on top before the transition to hoe drills and no till disc drills.
With the price of fuel, rising input costs and no til planting/drilling tech why in the heck do you disk arid land , dry it out even more and expose it to wind erosion?
The dust was flying, yes, but there was far too much stubble for no till. Our wheat drill wouldn’t work in that much stubble. At that point, there was good moisture in the subsoil.
Look at the dust, why wonder no till farming was brought about, however the new greenie wants us to go back that way and not use any artificial fertiliser to grow the crops to feed the people, Hey ?
