Moldboard Plowing Rye! Keeping It Old School!

516s and I bought this plow like oh God it's got to be almost 40 years ago I was just a teenager yet for $200 on a consignment auction maybe about about 15 to 20 years ago I found another one that was a four bottom just like it I bought for parts so this has been this thing hasn't really costed me a whole lot through all these years we haven't been plowing every year but since the Ry has been really growing out on us we've been using this a lot more and I'll explain more when I get going here but I just going to have you guys take a good look at what I got going going on here we got her on the 7510 today I got her all cleaned up got all the M her off the windows and everything she's got a side Hill Cher which came off the plow I bought for parts which that all worked out nice but she's getting pretty wore out like here the tip is gone on him but still pretty much do the job he's supposed to look like this one there's that hardened tip there so you got several parts seems like people kind of like this hillage stuff and it's kind of getting to be kind of rare by us so we'll talk more when we get going it's May 6th today we have about 20 acres of ride to plow under it's been raining about every other day but really nice rains everything's really gotten ahead of us I would have liked to have this done several days ago but it'll still work out it's not late it's awful lot of growth there there there's a lot of manur sprad in that so we're not going to harvest that I have never done like that before anyway but what I want to use it for is is green manur so what we have down here is is this was tooken off with corn silage last fall and then probably by mid-september was planted into oats and rot so the oats grew really fast to start with and then the Rye you know got established late in the fall and then that took over here uh in the spring and it's a beautiful crop it's doing just what it's supposed to do it's what they call Green manure I mean back in egg class that's what they call it if you plow it under some sort of hay or green growth was green manure like I said there's a lot of manure in here which is great um this is going to really put out so I'm going to get started [Music] now the last couple years we've had to plow simply because of the Rye is getting quite overgrown I think it's better I choose not to spray at least not to cover crop out um that Roundup I got a feeling has got some some bad um wraps maybe for overusing it now I'm not going to tell anybody what to do and everybody's got their opinion on these type of things but on these heavy bottoms we get a better you know the corn starts off better that's fairly level down here the soil is very heavy there's no rocks I mean it it has its place to use the sprays on the steeper stuff down here this is going to be the real way to go so what happens here when you plow this plant under it acts as a fertilizer so now we planted the oats in the Rye in the fall it sucked up all the nutrients that are left in the soil or a lot of the nutrients so that if you did get heavy snows and rains and and runoffs those nutrients stayed inside those plants now when you plow them under they start to break back down and they feed this year's crop and instead of uh you know like if you just put on like conventional fertilizers you know you could very possibly have runoff into your rivers and streams with that stuff and it's expensive so it's basically you're growing your your fertilizer you're like capturing what you have there in the land which there's a lot of manur put on this as you can see it's very very beautiful soil it's just like ancient food cake it's kind of one of them things it's hard to do when you haven't done it yet as the years go by it gets better and better and so I can compare where I have done it where I haven't so where we take the dry grain off we haven't put cover crop in cuz it's too late or it's it just wouldn't turn out as nice it still be good it just wouldn't be as good so but we can see the difference so now here what we got where the center of this field was dry you know there was corn standing here yet when I put the Rye in and then so we planted the Rye all the way around so a little over half this field is been Ry we'll see the differences as the crop grows where the cover crop has been and where it hasn't been I'm trying to adjust my plow here so we got to set our depth so the back is just on float there's a cylinder back there this what they call semi-mounted so there's a wheel in the back that supports it then you got your gauge wheel that's the other one out on the side there little bit wet in this spot I can see just a little bit of water standing in the furl I started this yesterday just to give it one try but a little wet yet I gave it another day yeah you can see all the manur down in that rye which I love it it's all going to stay put so that's really the key to it that whatever we put in these fields to keep them in these fields and as we take a crop off to bring it back and then use stuff like Ry and to keep the field as green is you can keep it all year round the only time this field is not green is between now and the time the corn canopies which might be only two months of the year and then we take off the corn silage of course in September immediately plant the oats and Ry the oats seems to come up really quick and um the ride takes a little longer to establish but then that one holds out over winter to the oats d by Christmas that one is done so it's kind of like a double deal and it's cheap for what it does for you price of conventional fertilizers I mean this way of farming is going to keep your soils fertile longer where the conventional fertilizers you put on um they you get a nice punch out of them but they don't stay the plants use them up pretty quick and then some of it leeches down and put the rains and all depends on the soils and how you do it but that's generally how it works at least that's how I see it now I don't have all the answers and some might say oh this is not the best way to do things well in some places they're right and the ride here is probably a little over a foot tall now if I move too fast what happen happens is it throws the dirt further than it should I don't think it covers it as nice I mean this plow has not made to move more than I mean we're just a little over 4 M an hour I really think the key to getting done in the field is just to keep moving even if you're moving slow you're still accomplishing or getting done I mean typically you can drive really really fast and if things break or you screw stuff up because of it um you don't really get done quicker anyway but as long as you keep moving I think that's uh what gets you done that kind of goes with everything give it time to do what it's supposed to do yeah my dad he I we we grew up with moboard plowing I mean pretty much a moboard plow my dad had a plow just like this and my brother still has it and then uh a disc and a digger and then later on he did get a chisel plow for some of the more steeper Fields you know as the Machinery got better to handle some of them Hills we started doing some of that too but all the heavy B still got mboard plowed and he was a firm believer right up to the end on that I think the downside to it is um your risking erosion but with all this sod in the soil I don't I don't think it's nearly as big of a risk but where you got bare ground you'd always plow on a fall after the crops are off that was kind of the trend all the way around here and I really got to say in our area the ones that were religious about woard plowing always had really nice crops every time it's going to be about 75° today so it's perfect it's time to go so they talking rain before morning again which would be great if if we could get all this plow and then it rains on it settles it back down and then after that it sounds like a stretch of just some spotty shower stuff and mostly sunny and partly cloudy and I guess uh corn planting weather I guess if there's any questions on this tractor it's got 18438 on the rears and uh 115 horse probably one of my more favorite tractors there was one that sold like that r&m Motors I believe 7510 I think the thing only had like 13 hours on it it's where an Implement bought it just put it in the shop as a like a collector it had tools on it it brought 192,000 on this auction went up to Canada I'd like to know if the guy is using it for farming or just going to do the same thing to me I think it' be a shame not to use it just take care of it you know put some hours on it this one here's got almost 5,000 hours on I home with it I do a lot of stuff with this tractor because it's my midsize all-around tractor and I think it's in pretty darn good shape yet maybe not be too much longer it'll need a set of tires again but that can make it new again so I don't know we're going to see where we can put you guys here we're going to put you on top of the steering on right on top of the back axle that holds the plow when it's not in the ground we'll see see how that works for a while here oh yeah hold on tight cuz if I lose you I think that's going to be end of the channel for [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this would be our Dead pearl and then they're probably talking 6 7 8 in roughly we going in and then this is the part I like I don't know if you can see that all those fine rots you don't see that where you don't have this cover crop those those fine rots you know it helps the water go in and all the soil now it like I said it we've gotten oh God 3 3 and 1/2 Ines of rain over the last week and a half nice rains of course but you know so bring this is heavy bottoms this is typically my wetter ground and it's not sicking to the tires it's quite damp but it crumbles right apart so even if it rains tonight again on top of this it probably settle it some and go with the turbo tail to groom it a bit but uh even to look at the Rye I think this this stuff is like past my knees in places [Music] [Applause] not too far 3 ft tall and look at the tractor wheels you the answers Guy starts thinking if you needed Beed you'd want to harvest this again then you're just kind of robbing from it again so I think we're going to get a good bunch of corn out of this and without putting nothing more than a little bit of starter on all right all righty we got to keep going maybe we'll check in a little later on again so this plowing one is a lot like art smaller crooked Fields if they want to plow your soil uphill if you can and you typically don't want to start a young man out driving tractor going plowing until you start the field we got a big enough field it probably is you know they could probably get the hang of it without know messing it up but what I like to do is typically plow away from the the creek towards uh the road Bank to kind of keep your field even and then the next year you you may want to plow it the other way or every third year or something when you moboard you want to bring the soil back so here's my controls there's like a little Notch underneath this little tab can I see it there and that's adjustable with this here dial and that sets my depth and then being that I got a semi mounted I got this lever that controls the back cylinder that's in float position right now so it's not carrying anyway all the weight is on the gauge wheel that wheel there rolling way on the outside in the other one is just kind of kind of just trailing along is all it's not really doing anything until you lift the plow out of the ground I could give you guys some more great shots throw this camera underneath the plow there but the r is so tall that I'm scared I'm going to lose my camera and if I do I think it's it's gone forever so yourself you look back I had a plowing video with the 1066 in the fall and I think I did one maybe it's 2 years ago now I'm not sure with the Rye who doesn't like tillage I guess if you're a farmer it's kind of in you it's not always the thing you should do but I think in some cases it should be done beautiful time of the year lots of excitement looking into planting and all that and how things turn out so we'll keep you guys posted with more videos okay we're back we're on our second field Our Big Field this one's like 14 Acres I did drive one pass through the field the Ry is so tall I'm having a hard time figuring out where the dead frow was last year but I think I got it so we're going to plow the opposite of last year last year we started on the edge pushed it out this year we're going to push it in so there we are and we're going to have to cut this field through at least twice so I'm trying to do this so that it's going to to be somewhat even when I get all done so what I did is I dropped my plow a little bit lower because my my right wheel is not in the furl yet until I make these first two passes but they kind of see what I'm doing now so just so she covers up the rye and we got our dead pearls made and for instance if you had an inexperienced person that was going to want to plow for you this is the part the experienced guy wants to do is get the field started and then they can just follow the furl and and I think through time like everything you get good at it you want it to look like you knew what you you were doing even though sometimes you don't always get it right but years and years this R is just beautiful out here again like I said before there's a lot of manure down in here it's really doing everything it should do this is kind of near the highway too but I always get good mergence with my corn it's usually looking sharper than a lot of the no tails so we we know we're we're on the right page or is doing good for things yeah the soil here is a little more clay like not quite as lomy as the other field but it is also not nearly as wet as the other field for all the rain we had I mean it's like it never rained you know far as it's not muddy it's not sticky it's rolling over nice and it's not sloppy and

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Length: 21min 56sec (1316 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 06 2024