need ideas for tractor impliment

hi guys ok here whats going on, im going to help a neighbor set up irrigation on his pasture, what we want is to make a raised 'wall' about a foot high in various parts of the pasture to control flood type irigation water , plan 1 was to use a middle buster, make 3 or 4 passed then use a back blade to bring all the loose dirt togeather into the center to make the raised portion this didn't work worth a @#$%!, what are you guys using, i have a caT 1 FORD so it would have to be a impliment for that i found a border disc, hadnt even seen one before, but that thing is huge and for a cat 3 hitch my ford probably couldnt even move it much less pick it up any ideas?

we used to make wide watermelon beds with a double bottom turning plow...they were similar to what you want to make...we just plowed one pass into the other one...you could use a grader blade to shape it higher.

I would think a moldboard plow would work. Make a round plowing toward each other then make another round on top of that one. Maybe make a third round on top of it again. Might work???

Here on the west coast where water is a premium, we use a "ridger" to run a wall so we can flood irrigate. It might go by another name; uses two sets of discs facing inward towards each other, the more passes you make, the higher the wall becomes.
HTH.
Chuck

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Work the dirt up so it's real loose and then use your blade angled to build the bank, just like you do when clearing snow. You could even use the leveling arm on the 3 pt. to tilt the blade to make the berm higher. You may have to drive on the berm to pack it a bit so it doesn't wash away. Dave

Yep,I dug quite a ditch to drain a wet spot in a field by doing just the oposite this spring. Kept plowing a dead furrow deeper and out. Used a larger plow than the little Ford is gonna pull,but same principle. Took the loader down and leveled off the high edges that I'd built up doing it.

First, make sure you know the fall of the land and how you want your borders to lie.

Then, take a regular disc, set it to cut deep on the rear gangs and hit 'er twice or three times at a good clip. That's all it takes to build your ridge.

Lastly, go back and disc once on each side of the border with the disc set back to normal. This will eleminate any low areas up close to the ridge.

Allan

Have made many-a-rod of terrace using a moldboard plow. The soil will quit rolling over after a couple of passes; wait 'til after a rain settles/runs it back together and do it again......as many times as it takes.

take a set of 2 row hippers, turn them facing each other and 4 or 5 feet total width. it looks like a small version of a levee plow used by rice farmers. it will make a row 4 or 5 feet wide and 12 to 14inches tall. probably will require several passes. works great.----- rosebud.

How about a Dearborn 2 disc Tiller? My Dad plowed many miles of terraces for the Soil Conservation with one. They work well in clay soils that will not scour off a moldboard.

thanks for all the responces, i will try some of these and see what we can get to work , i may need to scour my back blade as even in the extreem angle it wont flow the dirt off the end of the blade like it does with snow, will post back when i get something working

Allan In NE used to live 1/2 mile down the road from me. He grew up on, and operated a gravity/flood irrigated farming operation, and knows what he's talking about. His is your simplest and easiest solution to what you want to do. Just set the rear gangs on your tandem disc to throw maximum dirt to the center, angle your disc back so those rear gangs are doing all of the work, and go to it. If you're working in tough sod pasture, you might have to make twenty passes to get the ground loosened up, and a border built, but it will work. You may want to just make multiple passes with your disc running level to start with, to work that sod up, and create some loose dirt, then crank the disc back, and go to making your border. In my experience, you'll have a hard time building usable borders with a 3 point blade on the back of a Ford tractor. It's kind of precision work if you want water to run right, and pretty tough not to cut and gouge, and end up with to many high and low spots. A disc won't do that. You can also pretty easily and cheaply build an outfit like Chuck in CA has pictured, with any kind of an old Cat 1 tool bar and some old disc parts. If you're going to be doing much of this, it would be a worthwhile project and investment. There's been hundreds of them built and used in this area over the years, they work great for building borders, and also for closing ditches, if that's how you convey your irrigation water. Good luck!! :wink: