I think he is plowing too shallow...

John_PA · Feb 9, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrORacOycTQ

Normally, when I plow a field, I try to get deep enough so that I can also mine for diamonds and coal. This guy is going so shallow that he is just wasting diesel fuel. I guess I just don't understand modern foreign farming techniques.

Sean Feeney · Feb 9, 2014

I think he is working for the utility co burying service

Anonymous-0 · Feb 9, 2014

Bringing up new rocks for his rock garden.

onefarmer · Feb 9, 2014

Sending his quackgrass to China? It'll surely sprout there!

Tim(nj) · Feb 9, 2014

I don't know what this particular situation is that requires plowing so deep. I know there are places where the loamy soil is deep, but the top layer has too much salinity, so plowing deep brings up more loam and the salt gets buried. I also have been told that in some places before an orchard or vineyard is planted, they will plow this deep. I don't know why, though.

Ultradog MN · Feb 9, 2014

Thanks John.
There is a video on youtube - can't find it now - where they are deep plowing. One huge single bottom about 3 or 4+ feet deep. Two tractors, one with the plow mounted and another bigger tractor pulling it via a cable.
I think it was in the Netherlands or somewhere like that.

55 50 Ron · Feb 9, 2014

A couple places the number 80 cm showed up on the video. If I calculated right, that"s 2.62 feet.
I"m surprised the tractor doesn"t tip.

showcrop · Feb 9, 2014

He wouldn't get two feet with that rig on any of my ground.

Mike (WA) · Feb 9, 2014

What a great idea- bury the topsoil and bring up the subsoil, so nothing will grow. I note it is from Kosovo- Seems like there are a lot of Youtube videos demonstrating the general foolishness of the Russians.

John_PA · Feb 9, 2014

Wodka? Maybe he is looking for Moose and Squirrel.

John_PA · Feb 9, 2014

I think that is the video I was watching after I saw this one!

I'm still perplexed... Around here, we call that "strip mine reclamation" when all the subsoil is on top.

John_PA · Feb 9, 2014

AND!!!!!!! He's THROWING IT DOWNHILL!!! HAH!

:shock:

gene bender · Feb 9, 2014

There are places they plow even deeper than he is doing gots to remember farming is different in other places in the world. Look up the deep plowing they do in the netherlands if you want to see deep plowing even in Calif

JD Seller · Feb 9, 2014

In many areas they deep plow for several reasons.

1) In many reclaimed areas that where jungle and such they need to mix the organic matter in the soil better to grow conventional crops.

2) In areas that are farmed hard and have deep top soil they turn the soil to being up fresh fertile soil so shallow root crops can grow better.

3) In some areas with heavy irrigation they get too much salt in the top layer of soil. They have to blend it in to keep growing crop there.

4) In areas like CA they do it to get the good topsoil turned up and sand turned under. Much of the San Joaquin valley has been deep tilled. It is a former sea floor and the topsoil is deep under sediment that is sandy.

Kenneth R Ohnstad · Feb 9, 2014

No clue here, but I am not a farmer.
I did like the note of the exhaust... really
bellered.
k

Ken Macfarlane · Feb 9, 2014

Some places they have to bury material after a flood or bury heavy
metals deep below surface. Holland does it for some reason, wasn't
it to bring sand up into the silt to make a better soil?

T in NE · Feb 9, 2014

I read about a guy up in Canada (years ago) building a plow that could run about 4 feet deep. Farmed peat ground and that's how deep it was.

Frank 41 · Feb 9, 2014

DMI built a 1 shank ripper for the reclaimed strip mines around Farmington, IL. I saw it sitting on an 820. The tractor could have driven under it, probably 12" tall.

moresmoke · Feb 9, 2014

Guess they never heard of an on land hitch?

RandyB(MI) · Feb 9, 2014

That's gotta be pretty hard on the tractor/seals with all the fluids laying in the right side .

John_PA · Feb 10, 2014

apparently their "water" is a lot stronger than ours!

My daddy could never make the sunshine, but he sure could make the moonshine!

These guys make the moonshine, then they make the stars twinkle and swirl. After that, the stars clump together and form a blurred light that keeps a man upright only when he is falling down a hole. After that, he must get in a tractor and go plow a field. There is no way you'd get me to ride that slope and dig up that filth!

I think he is plowing too shallow...

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