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  • March 18, 2011 at 4:17 pm #42545
    jac
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    Finally the rain stopped. We have had a good spell with slight morning frost . So couldnt wait any longer and hitched the 2 mares to my new plow. Old turf certainly tests your sense of humour but the horses were really patient with me..
    John

    March 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm #66381
    Big Horses
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    Love it John!! What’s all that green stuff on the ground?:confused: Ours is white.

    March 18, 2011 at 5:47 pm #66383
    Andy Carson
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    Woo-Hoo John! Are you the first to break ground this year? I am trying so hard to be patient…

    March 18, 2011 at 6:13 pm #66386
    jac
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    I just couldnt stand it any longer Andy !!! the twitch in my left eye was getting worse.. John do you still have snow ?.. I have to say the kv bottom certainly pulls easy. Does exactly what it says in the ads:)…
    John

    March 18, 2011 at 6:38 pm #66391
    FELLMAN
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    Thats fantastic yoke jac !! Ive often wonderd if you could get a plough like that for horses now i know you can, brilliant keep the pics comming ,shame to be ploughing that lovely grass in i could lend you sheep to graze it all off 🙂

    March 18, 2011 at 6:47 pm #66387
    jac
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    I recon 4 of your Fell’s could manage a plow like that. They never caught on over here in the horse era. The British farmer was afraid of change. Our American cousins led the way with inovations.. though Scots did the initial inventing 😀
    John

    March 18, 2011 at 6:58 pm #66385
    mitchmaine
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    hi john, nice looking furrow. looks like you got that plow figured out. give her heck, mitch

    March 18, 2011 at 7:33 pm #66392
    FELLMAN
    Participant

    @jac 25753 wrote:

    I recon 4 of your Fell’s could manage a plow like that. They never caught on over here in the horse era. The British farmer was afraid of change. Our American cousins led the way with inovations.. though Scots did the initial inventing 😀
    John

    If i could get a team of 4 fells ploughing with a plough like that oh man it would be better than winning the lottery for me !!! where did you get the plough if you don’t mind me asking ? i was at the Scottish ploughing champs at jedburgh and thought the traditional brittish ploughs looked awful hard work , i had designed a plough with with wheels and a seat in my head before i got home:D and for the life of me couldn’t understand how it never happened at the time but as you say old farmers frightened of change !! brilliant really brilliant !!

    March 18, 2011 at 10:03 pm #66384
    Andy Carson
    Moderator

    If you don’t mind me asking, what you planning to plant? I am also curious about the direction you have chosen to plow. It looks a little like you are going up and down a slight hill, but it might be the angle of the pictures…

    March 18, 2011 at 10:53 pm #66376
    goodcompanion
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    Very nice first furrow. I bet you are proud of that plow and the team that pulls it. We’re lonely enough in the northeast with such draft accomplishments as we can manage. But probably not one in a million, quite literally, in the UK can harness a team and open a land.

    The landscape in the background is evocative too. It speaks of a human scale and benign patterns of use, in a way totally different from the landscapes of, say, the industrial ag of the (north american) midwestern plains. Except for those godawful utility towers that always seem to be in view…

    March 19, 2011 at 12:09 am #66388
    jac
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    I have to admit the land I am in is my tractor neighbours.. the land I am plowing for myself is low lying and still way too wet..our land willget potatoes and veg this year and I plan to sow some oats next year… I just had to plow so started his field for him :o.. he will be sowing an arable silage mix of barley/peas for his dairy cows.. The plow came from Ohio and is made by the Pioneer company at Dalton. It has a 14″ Kverneland body on it. The area I am in was a strong dairy area but this is now all but gone. The farmers are caught in a situation where they cant change the field layout because of restrictions.. which is nice for the scenery but not for making farms pay.. Im afraid the “get big or get out” mentality is alive and well in the UK too…
    John

    March 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm #66382
    Big Horses
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    Yes John, we’ve still got over a foot of snow, and it’s freezing every night and snowing at least once a day…typical March! Snow, freeze, sun, rain, sleet, wind, hail….. just a typical hour in NW Montana in March!:D
    JH

    March 20, 2011 at 2:46 am #66377
    J-L
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    Pretty pictures John. Very nice team too. It is certainly a good scene to look on for us in Wyoming as we are still in winter mode too. Riding in the protected parts of the ranch the snow is rubbing on my stirrups. 6* this morning and yesterday. High of 21* yesterday. Your country side is very pretty and green.
    I suppose there aren’t many riding implements over there and even fewer Pioneer plows. That KV bottom looks like it does a great job in sod.
    Your furrow looks awfully good. Good job.

    March 20, 2011 at 5:46 am #66379
    Marshall
    Participant

    Very nice John. I can only hope my first time plowing will look that good.

    March 20, 2011 at 4:35 pm #66389
    jac
    Participant

    Thanks guys .. The KV bottom is a big improvement and I am sure pulls easier.. I need to tweak the skim coulter.. its not really a skim coulter like the walking plow has but more an extension to the mould board… Will get more fotos as we proceed..
    John

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