Spring is HERE!!! Plowing the Garden. Why Use a Semi-Mounted Plow? 

Nothing like memories and a chance to relive them, no matter how brief! Great video! Thanks for sharing❗❗❗ 🙂🙂🙂 👍👍👍

Tim, my friend, at 77 I know what you mean. We moved from the farm to 1/2 ac. and that was hard to do. However, with my health issues it was a have to case. You can take the farmer off the farm but you can't take the farm out of the farmer. I now have a 2013 Kubota 29 hp 4X4 with loader. I have a Brinley 12 in. plow, a King Kutter 4 ft tiller, and a 6 ft. 3 pt. finish mower. I'm kinda like you, in that I do custom work, but on a much smaller scale. I loaned out my plow last fall and hope to get it back soon. I need to plant grass seed where we had a garden. Take care, and be safe. I like your videos and gald to see bible verses at the end. Thanks, and God bless.

My Dad liked Oliver plows and Your plowing is looking great

I am a Purdue grad and then I lived in central Indiana for 4 more years before moving to southern Vermont. This video makes me so jealous of you with that rich fertile soil! Luckily we still have family and friends in Indiana so we get back to enjoy the beautiful state often.

Most folks will never know the glorious smell of fresh turned dirt. lol

We need Plow and Sniff-a-Vision. Fresh turned dirt smells like, Outdoors.

We have an old single furrow Ferguson plow my late father had. I hook it up to the old 1956 John Deere row crop once in a while just for the fun of it. Yes my 1025r and tiller will do the job, but it’s fun. The furrows are not the best and I always remember my father telling me a farmer took pride in his straight furrows. Well the field is a distance from any eyes so I’m good with whatever comes out behind the plow. Lol. 👍

We had a semi mounted “one way” disc when we were kids. Used mostly to build up terraces. Deep breaking plow was a 5 bottom Stanton roll over. 16” bottoms. That is a HEAVY beast and is on land. Dual wheel Case 1170 could barely pull it. Back unit is removable and thats what we did. Still sits on our place but the family that farms this small place owns it now. Really enjoy watching old equipment worrk

That's some good looking dirt

Brings back great memories for me to. We lived about an hour north of Minneapolis,MN. We had 20 acre hobby farm. We had a John Deere M and a 2 bottom plow, that 2 bottom gave that little M a work out usually had use 1st gear it was slow but i loved doing it. We had a Farmall h it would pull the plow better but i loved that little Johnnie popper.

Tim Christi memory is one of the things that keep you going forward God Bless PaK

Now it's rainy and cold!!! Love the smell of fresh turned dirt! There was a couple guys west of you a ways putting on gas that day.

Tim you can never take the farmer out of a guy , love watching plowing being done. Good job as normal

Can't wait for the planting video

As I get older I understand just getting nostalgic stuff just ‘cos I can. Carry on with the great work you two

Fun to see the Mavic in the video directly! :)

Good to get in the dirt. Hope Dad is doing well. Thanks for sharing Tim.

Great to see an old farming practice in motion again. Thank you for sharing this!

Some may disagree but Oliver plows were the best money could buy. John Deere’s were good. But Oliver improved their design. They still bring a premium even today. No trash left on top. Beautiful piece of equipment. Looks like you’re having a good time!

Enjoyed watching. I plow my garden every year with a mounted Dearborn plow that I kept from an 8n I used for years. Now use it behind a Kubota L3800.

The smell of fresh plowed earth. Thank you for the explanation of plows.

Good for you, Tim (and Christy) - it's your land and your money to spend - enjoy !!

I too could smell that dirt. There is something so satisfying about plowing and discing a field. Thanks for the video.

I can smell that fresh plow dirt from here. 👍👍👍

I enjoyed this video brings back memories when i seen farmers in Indiana plow up there fields when i was a kid thanks Tim

We had a 1940's Farmall A, with a one bottom plow we used on our 1+ acre wheat field and 3/4 acre corn field. Heavy clay soil, and often either Mom or I had to ride on the cross brace of the plow to weigh it down, lol. Took awhile to get it done, one furrow at a time, but it worked. The farmer around the corner used a 3 bottom like that hooked to some sort of Ford Utility tractor to do his. Don't think I ever noticed the model. Your 5E looks to handle that one just fine.

I remember as a child the first time riding in a car behind one of our tractors with an IH 4 bottom plow and being fascinated with the combination linkage to lower, lift and steer the tail wheel. A few years later I got a large Erector Set for Christmas and I built that linkage setup with it. I think I was 6 or 7. My family was impressed.

If you use and set the draft control correctly, the tractor will control the depth of the plow no matter if you are going up hill or down. Draft control works with mounted or semi mounted plows but obviously not trailer plows. I believe Allis Chalmers was the first to offer draft control and called it Traction Booster. Allis Chalmers also had a special Traction Booster hitch platform available for pull type implements that would actually use the tongue of a wagon for instance as a fulcrum if the tractor encounters a slippery surface and would sense the change in draft and actually start lifting the pull type implement or wagon and put more weight on the back tires of the tractor!

its worth digggging it deep every now and then does a nice job

Excellent, thanks!

Nice to remember those days watching the soil turn and smelling the freshy plowed earth.

Sigh... I used one of those plow long time ago with a 1960 (I think) Massey Ferguson 165. Memories.... so many memories . Great times Thank you Tim..

Yep you do what you want with that plow ! I enjoyed watching

FUN VIDEO!

Great video and excellent background information on the plows. Also some beautiful looking dirt, thank you

You have took all the fun out of plowing, get a one bottom for Johnny and spend half a day out there 😂😂

I go to buckley old engine show in buckley mi. I bring my JD 520 and 3 bottom plow and participate in the plowing demonstrations where they have lawn tractors with plows farm tractors with 3pt and trailer plows then the old steamers with prairie plows. Good times all around. When i at buckley having a good time for the 3 1/2 day show with a little plowing and the parades and my cruising aint nothing to run through almost 20 gallons of gas at max usage around 1.5 gallons an hr

right on man!

I bought a 565 plow last fall as well. I didn't "need" a plow, but my wife let me as well lol! Never got it in the ground yet but hope to in the next few weeks if it dries up enough. Thanks for the video! You've got me excited to sink mine in the dirt soon!

Nice spring video Tim, thank you for taking us along. I like your flag pole in the background, I have a flag hanging on the wall of my shop too.👍

I love the smell of fresh-turned soil in the morning! I have snow on the ground here in New Hampshire and the ground is frozen. I am hoping to till in early May this year. The last couple of years it has been June.

Tim in my humble opinion the Oliver plows all of them, semi mounted, mounted and pull types was the best plow ever made for a couple reasons. They pulled easier and they turned the soil better thus covering up the trash better than any plows ever made. I have pulled John Deere, Case IH, MM and Massey and if you could pull a 5 bottom 16 inch on any other brand you could pull one more bottom if it was a Oliver. I include White plows too since Oliver became White. I still have a White 5 bottom 16 inch plow I use when plowing old Alfalfa hay fields to reseed them but only on 50 acres of hay I raise for horses and to sell that is on rolling ground.

Good description of the different plow types. One thing you didn't mention with the semi-mounted plow is that it has a hydraulic cylinder that raises & lowers the tail wheel. That's most useful, I always thought, when finishing out a 'land'. It let's you raise the rear moldboards, but keep the front moldboards in the ground, letting you adjust to the width of the unfinished land.

Nothing like the smell of freshly plowed soil.

Oh yah, my uncle lived down the road. He had a big boy john deere d. It could pull 4 bottom plow. If you know what an old D looks liked it had big fenders and big enclosed driver area He would 4 or 5 kids pile on that tractor. I would ride all day long back and forth. He had about 150 acres. The smell of fresh dirt and all the birds that flocked in behind the plow!

Thanks for the video, it's a great time of year. Larry

Boy, that laid over nice! Super jealous of your dry conditions. It will be weeks before I can head to the field with my Oliver 770 and Oliver 3 bottom. I totally understand the plow thing--sure is fun watching that ground turn over. Nice job! Great vid!

Very good explanation of the semi mounted plow. My brother in laws Nick name is plow boy!! Just little humor for the farmers.

I think plowing and then tilling is far better than simply tilling alone unless your garden plot has been a garden plot for at least a few years. we always plowed in late fall to allow the earth to freeze and thaw over winter which helps break the soil up very nicely. of course that is just one way to do it that works well here in Virginia. I don't do much plowing these days for myself so typically people wait till late winter or spring before they start asking about plowing. still using the single bottom plow which takes longer but means I get more seat time. I could use a two bottom plow on my size tractor but it would be a better fit with ag tires. since I use the R4 tires the single bottom is a better fit for this set up. I just went and looked at a plot of virgin soil that I may be plowing and then tilling soon. hopefully I will feel like making a video on that. enjoyed the video I always enjoy plowing way more than tilling reminds me of my childhood plowing with the old farmall tractor.

I don't use Coulter's in broken ground remove them all but yes in sod. If mixed hard clay ground like I have run offset disk first to break the surface than plow. I don't spray and work with weeds every year with my wheat crops. I have rocky ground and Coulter's hang on rocks and break.

Oh, and yes I have to admit beautiful looking tractor! Even though it's not red LOL

Wow you are way ahead of us weather wise. We still have snow on the ground here in eastern Canada.

Always loved breaking land ,

Tim this is awesome!!! We still use a 5 bottom oliver and honesty oliver/white plows are built well we have used all kinds of (older plows) and oliver plows just simply worked

Tim, 3-10-20 I tilled the first garden of the season. And was requested to mow a section of the garden that had tall grass. I finished both today in a couple of hours. With going home to swap implements and return to client's garden.

@Tim, try looking for disk coulters or cover boards to cover your stalks or grass better. It will also make your ground more even over the top over the top.

Nice video tim and kristie and i like the plow and it looks real good .the drone did a great job too 👍

The enjoyment gained actually gardening can be worth as much or more than the harvest.

I love the corresponding Bible verses at the end of you videos! Keep up the good work.

TTWT Plowing the garden. I'm surprised that your ground was dry enough to plow. I was going to ask for you to let me know when you were going to plow the garden because I just wanted to watch. Oh well maybe next year.

Great video. Really enjoyed the history. Thank you.

Under the conditions you had, light stubble and dry mellow soil, you really didn’t need the cutters. Plus, the plow is off-hitched a bit as the tailwheel was wanting to go to the right. But, for what little you plowed, I wouldn’t mess with changing anything. Thanks for sharing!

Good to see you getting a start on the garden Tim! I’m in shopping mode for a tiller hook onto my 1025R so I can start doing a garden. I haven’t done one for over 30 years, back when I helped my dad with his. I’ll have a lot of re-learning to do.

That plowed up nice.

Tim my dad and grampa and uncle used to say a tractor that pulls from the furrow will out pull those up on land. We had one and it pulled the guts out of our 4555. Deere went back to that switch plow and we got a 6 bottom and it pulled so easy. The up land plow was a six bottom and it was hard to pull it made me realize that plow like your or and roll over plow or switch plow was a lot better plow.

Good video Tim ground turned good want be long till time to plant

YESSS spring is officially here, all the lawn care company's are waking up from a winter's brake, baseball is good, the mud has come, the neibhoor is on his husquavarna rider mowing his 1 inch tall grass for the 3rd time this past week, grandpa mowing mole hills, the tractor is starting easier, the city is planting new flowers, more people at the city park and walking, everything is great!!!

Very cool, its way to wet over here in east central indiana! my 1025r does not do my plowing, my 51 Ford 8n does the plow, the 1025r runs the tiller!

Loved every moment.

Thank you for sharing this video. It seems you are enjoying the different tractor and machines type / size combination. What would be your favorite combo for a Homestead operation 10/20 acres, some food plots, crops, Loader tasks, moving fallen trees, and cutting grass.

Great choice of plow! I got a 361 mounted.

Tim , looking pretty good. I've got a 565 5 bottom reducible to 4 bottom. I bought another 565 to make it a 5 bottom. I've got 2 of those colters sitting in my shed just like what you've got. Mine has the cushion trip colters and beams.

Awesome video. Nice work with the drone (not over done...perfect). I always wondered how the different plows worked, and now I know! Great choice for a bible verse too! I wondered what you would choose for this video.

You did a great job Tim even though it isn't quite fair as we still have a over a foot of snow on the ground where I live in Maine . I have a tiller but still like to use my old ford 3 bottom plow and disc harrow . Stay safe and God Bless

We had a 5 bottom oliver plow when I lived on the farm 40 years ago

I have an 8 ft tiller but I still bought my neighbors old plow cause I could !!

We’re from Boswell IN, I know a fella from Lebanon named Shane Britt! Coach of the year Lebanon Tigers softball!

Thanks for sharing .

Enjoyed the video Tim, the only thing we are plowing up in the Northeast now is snow....God Bless...Chief...{NYS/ADK}

I like to bush hog my corn stalks before I plow. Helps break down the stalks faster.

Have a 4 bottom semi mounted. Looks good always love plowing . Still to wet here. Thanks for the video loved it. 👍 jdmich

Nothing like the smell of fresh turned dirt. I have a 3 point mounted 3 bottom I use and also a 2 bottom disk plow. I find I like my disc plow a little better.

I love your voice lol you have the main guys voice from king of the hill lol

cool

You need a 12’ disc now.

AHHHHHH......Overkill is underrated !

Felt like i was watching a home improvement great vid

Deep tillage is pretty much a thing of the past in Nebraska (and many other parts of the country), so it's one of the few farming activities I've never gotten to do myself. I do remember riding once as a kid, but that's about it. Sometime you should show how you can keep the tail of the plow lifted to leave almost no furrow at the end. I'm sure some would find that trick interesting.

Yep we had a neighbor plowing on March 7 he was turning over some hay ground It looked a bit wet though compared to your Garden

That combo is almost as long as the plot that you are ploughing... Use a smaller tractor or plough a larger plot. ;)

Maybe I would be rushing it, but ,I would have wanted to bust up the soil with the tiller after plowing it, but I know if you had done that all you would have is add another job tilling it again later. I grew up using a 3pt plow, but all we did was our garden and a neighbor's or two. I can remember Dad fiddling with the top link and the side arm adjustment until it was throwing the soil how he wanted. I also remember him cursing the plow if a neighbor had borrowed it the year before and failed to coat the moldboards and shares with grease, or he found the failed to rest it on a couple of 2x's on the ground.

It’s good to plough! It gets air into the soil, stops compaction & can get rid of some nasties with a bit of hard frost.

What, no guidance or auto steer? How can you farm in this day and age without them, HAHA. Its way to wet here in Nebraska yet to even do the garden let alone a whole field. Great video and have a great year with all your toys...

I hope you don't have any problems when you get new neighbors in the future. You should be able to what you want to do on your own property and when you want to.

I just bought a JD 4 bottom and it did not have coulters on it , it cuts just fine without.

While I was watching it I thought, "Why would he use a plow instead of a rototiller?" When you answered at the end, it made perfect sense. Glad you enjoyed it.

Need a disc to cut the clumps after the turn. I used an old ford 2 bottom that technically didnt fit my tractor. Disked it down smooth.

Given the flooding I’m quite surprised just how compacted the soil got , are you planning on running vinnie over it once a few weeks have gone by to break it up before replanting?

Can't believe how dry your ground is I'm over here East of Columbus Ohio 30 miles and our ground still saturated

The soil in my area is still so wet that you probably would of gotten stuck or at least rolled the mud up. I can't hardly walk across my yard without squishing the mud.