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Art Massing

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It finally got dry enough to turn the corn patch and the garden plot.
The first picture is my 2N with a Dearborn plow (2-14s).
I"ve seen postings from people asking about the use of wire on a plow to help turn under ground cover so the second picture is a shot of the #9 wire tied to the coulter and running in the furrow.
The next couple of pics are of the plots after plowing. The last one shows my field inspectors at work.
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Pretty decent plowing job with the old girl. Hadn't seen the wire trick- may have to try it. Wonder how long the wire would last on a bigger job?
 
When I was young and plowed tall grass like sweet clover dad used wires that way plowing all day and the wires never wore out.
 
Looks like pretty heavy sod you are plowing.
Nice job for any plow. I am going to try that
wire idea myself.
 
After thought. Does the wire work only on sod
or will it help in corn stalks also?
 
Only ever used it on corn stalks. Works great, but remember to drive the same direction the picker or combine went. It doesn't work "against the grain".

Areo
 
I was at the Gathering of the Orange in Madison SD last August. They had a sanctioned plowing contest on the grounds. They were using the wire trick as well, had never seen or heard of it before then. One guy said he could get 6' clover all the way over using the wire. Greg
 
Nice pics. Looks like the little guy is a multitasker. I have seen moldboard jointers on colters before, but never disc jointers. Around here we switched to concave angled coulters years back. They roll that leading edge of heavy trash over so it gets covered up by the rest of the turned soil in each furrow. Your little secondary blades do so on a smaller scale. I'm wondering what the wire really does, as I have never seen or heard of their use, around here.
 
When I was a kid, it was real wet one Spring and the rye got real high before we could plow it down. My Dad tied a wire on each bottom. It pulled the rye under just before the top of the ferrow flopped over. It kept it all turned under, and nothing sticking up.
 
We used to use heavy chain instead of wire. Needs to be long enough so the trailing end is always under the turned earth to keep a "pull" on it so it is taught. We turned under a lot of tall rye grass with NOTHING sticking up or uncovered ! Made a real pretty field with tall green right next to clean level turned ground. Back then your neighbors "judged" your farming abilities by what your plowed field looked like. Great times.
 
We used the wire thing back in the 40's. Every farmer worth anything had a roll of No 9 wire on the farm.
Make it 2-3 ft. longer than the area where the soil turns completely over.
Used to use alot of sweet clover for fertilizer, hard to cover for sure.
You will know when you loose a wire. Lasts along time.
 
Now you are judged on how straight your corn rows are. Autosteer should be seen as cheating in this endeavor.
 
I have seen my grandfather turn under 8' Dog Fennels with that trick. Only he used a piece of chain with a weight on the end. It was about the size and shape of an eggplant and weighed a good 10 pounds or so.
 
There used to be a couple of farmers on the heavy clay ground that used a single shank 3pt. ripper with a simular (mole it was called) hooked to the bottom of the shank. This was not a plow by any means, but did help drain the wet spots
 
We used the wire years ago and seemed to work good for sod not so good for brittle cornstalks in the spring. Do me a favor and don't use it preparing for horseradish we are one of the largest processors of ground horseradish and wire wreaks havoc with the grinders because the root grows around it and the same with beets.
 
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