Laholm is one of Sweden's oldest cities, and it is the oldest city in the province of Halland And they have invented the best sport on earth..Hastighetsplöjning.
Today's Dift ploughing race was brought to You with the generous help of Titanium Tractor Parts, Dual Power Hearing Aids and Carbon Neutral Sweden! Ha ha, total madness!:)
I think this is pretty impressive, would have loved to have been able to see the pyrometer read out of that Ford (considering the heat discoloration on the stainless stack from start to finish).
Dad always told me to plow at 3mph,said it worked soil better.When ever he wasn't... around I was plowing as fast as tractor would pull plows.My logic was the sooner you get seed in ground the more bushels per acre,as long as equipment is not getting beaten up all is good.
Wow O wow! Match a small ploug to a high powered tractor & a driver with attitude & you've got speed ploughin'... One dangerous sport (but a lot of skilled required) "Don't try this at home folks..."
that's been know to happen. a friend of mine used to race combines in the field with his neighbor. he would bump his ground speed up a bit, then the neighbor would, and back and forth til somebody plugged up their combine.
On the signs in the vegetable shops: "New exclusive kind of vegetables, potatoes and flour from Sweden with a slightly taste of diesel, just as pure and clean as it can be from traditional Swedish agriculture! 24euro/kg!
i love tractors myself and have a little compact so no offense pls :) but wanted to ask something about this sport....is it about 'painting the sky black' or 'fastest plowed patch?' :D
Thats right. nobody uses plows anymore. chisels and cultivators and diskes is all they pretty much use. Have you seen the Case IH Turbo Till cultivators before. that shit is awesome. makes the dirt real easy to plant in.
yes. most of what is visible as "smoke" coming from the exhaust is, in fact, soot. this almost pure carbon will settle harmlessly back to earth. diesel engines work on slightly different principals than gasoline burning engines, and are much more efficient, as well as cleaner. it is the emissions you cannot see that have a lighter molecular weight that rise into the upper atmosphere and cause damage, such as those exhausted from gasoline burning engines.
Brilliant, If my mate Fred let me do this with his brand new Massy Fergy spaceships, it wouldn't last half the time as that old Ford did, but it would be mass fun trying to find out,
That's true, but the worst thing with wind power in the Nordic is even worse. The blades are kept warm using electricity from an outside source, including when the plant is offline, typically at the times the power would really be needed elsewhere. Wait, that wasn't the worst part yet. The electric heating is obviously not enough in all conditions. You know how they thaw those when they're covered in ice and need to be cleaned before reactivation? The thawing apparatus arrives in the afternoon on a heavy truck, and a several hundred kilowatt oil burner starts. The following morning the tank of water has warmed enough so they can warm the turbine blades by spraying.
Oh, there's one more detail I forgot. How can they reach the blades? No problem, they actually use helicopters to spray. No, I kid you not. Yes, that's how taxpayers' money is spent in Sweden. (Wind power is obviously not profitable. Anywhere.)
It also doesn't constant power supply, you see when the wind stops there the windmill stops, power use is quite constant, but how do they solve that, a coal plant needs a start up of about half a day, it's not a diesel generator where you just hit the throttle, so a lot of electricity is just wasted cause due overcapacity to prevent a lack of power.
Black smoke from a diesel running fast under load is diesel fuel that did not combust because the injectors are pumping more then the engine needs. Look up over-fueling diesel.
Only in terms of CO2 - diesel exhaust gases usually contain far higher levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (both of which cause acid rain), and contain in the region of 20x as many cancer-causing carbon particulates when compared to gasoline exhaust gases.
The 9700 was a good tractor the begin with. That's raw power better than watching a tractor pull. Guts Glory Ram? A pickup isn't going to plow a field!
I wonder how the plows ground contacting wear parts last when pulled at 20 mph? I better not let my son see this video because im afraid I'll actually find the answer to my question.
