ploughing in Northern Ireland last Saturday! Pt 2

samn40 · Feb 27, 2014

More pics of the ploughing.........The competition is judged on straightness, uniformity of furrows, trash burial, neatness of the crown and finish. We have had a very mild winter although the past month has been wet, but not as wet as England.Saturday was a cold day compared to this week, you will notice the coats!!

MarkWV · Feb 27, 2014

great pics, thanks for sharing, may have been wet and cold but I am sure everyone enjoyed themselves

Mike M · Feb 27, 2014

Anyone doing no till over there ?

Most in my area of Ohio are doing minimum till or no till.

LenND · Feb 27, 2014

Nice pictures! My Dad had a team of greys (called dapple greys) he raised from birth. They were a matched team. Then the mare gave him two more greys later on.

donjr · Feb 27, 2014

Sam, that ground looks to be a little wet. How do you deal with the plow layer and compaction??? And, how does it work up in the spring???

samn40 · Feb 27, 2014

No Till does not work here, we need drainage and we need to get the weed seeds and cow muck turned under. We are heavily stocked in Northern Ireland so plenty of cow slurry is spread on the fields. We normally talk about a cow per acre or 5 sheep per acre. You don't go to many shows over here without seeing new slurry equipment! Even the large arable areas of England have to plough every second or third year.

samn40 · Feb 27, 2014

Don, this ground is silt. It doesn't plough nice unless it is wet. 2 -3 days drying and it turns to ashes. We don't get the fast drying and baking conditions that you do so we can get away with ploughing wet. We don't use discs either, instead we use a powered harrow. It does in one pass what a disc will do in about 4 passes, so the ploughed ground does not get compacted. Sometimes we use rippers, but they are not real popular.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 27, 2014

Really nice pictures,,,what is the blue tractor?

Bruce from Can. · Feb 27, 2014

Gives new meaning to the phrase "dina muck about"

Allan in NE · Feb 27, 2014

Ground needs to be plowed here too, but few do. :>)

Allan

samn40 · Feb 27, 2014

Larry, that blue tractor is a copy of a Ferguson tractor painted blue! LOL........Sam

larry@stinescorner · Feb 27, 2014

Did it win the contest?

Bret4207 · Feb 27, 2014

Thanks for the horse pics Sam. If those are Percherons, and I won't say for sure they are cuz there's another European breed that looks a lot like a grey Perch, then they are built like I like 'em. Over here these days they're all leg and no body. not drafty to my eye at all.

That is some fine plowing! You go by a field around here after they plowed it and it often looks like a drunk was driving a tractor with some serious draft control issues!

Mike Fitz · Feb 27, 2014

Great pictures and VERY good plowing! Good plowing is getting to be a lost art here. Plowing matches are fun and kind of addicting once you catch on to them. Does your organazition have a web site?
Thanks Mike.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 27, 2014

Thanks for posting

Anonymous-0 · Feb 27, 2014

Appears to be quite muddy.You did say a lot of rain, Surprised it turned as well as it did.

rodgernbama · Feb 27, 2014

Enjoyed the pictures. Nice MF135.

Frank 41 · Feb 27, 2014

Great pictures. The plowing is perfect but I did not see where the GPSs were especially on the horses.

DoubleR · Feb 27, 2014

Nice pics, Thanks for sharing them.
You boys did an awful nice job of plowing too.
As I write this, I look at my thermometer beside my chair and see -3 degrees, going to about -15 tonight. Two foot of snow on the ground, I can't even imagine us plowing here for a long time.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 27, 2014

Thanks for the photos Sam. The pictures of the horses bring back memories. Spent a lot of time following a horse through the fields when I was a kid. Ever notice how much difference there is in the smell of the exhaust than that of a tractor?

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