Kverneland plow

[blackjack]

Nerves; Reading one of the threads where you mention how much you like your plow. Have an old eight bottom John Deere but too clumsey and slow. Have no three point hitch tractor.

[nerves]

Hi Blackjack I assume you want some information on this plow I will tell you what I know and then you can decide if it is any good. First off our land is heavy clay and hilly, on the hills you can hit some rock and in the low spots there is peatmoss.This plow has rock coulters and are well worth having in sod. On the shears there are points that can be reversed when they get dull. You just change the points and your shear will last a long time. The bottoms are easy to remove if you have some real hard going. We plowed 300 acres last spring. I would run the plow and my dad would run a little 12 foot light finishing disk with a set of chain harrows and would start a day after me. When I finished plowing I would hook on to the seed drills and start seeding, we could finish some fields the same day the plowing was finished. The fields were not all that rough. It did an excellnt job of laying the soil up.The bottoms are self tripping the biggest rock it has popped up so far was about 3 foot square.Ours is a 6 bottom and we could do 3 to 4 acres an hour what would slow me down was getting the sod to lay flat while going up and down some hills. We also did 200 acres this fall in hard dry 40 year old pasture and it did just as good as job as it had done in the spring. We are very happy with this plow and find very little miosture loss when plowing they way we did last spring. A German friend of mine tells this plow is what the professionals use in the plowing championships in Europe. So they must be a fairly descent plow.

[grassfarmer]

Blackjack, these are the "John Deeres" of the plough world - nothing else will touch them.
I'm amazed at the ploughing i've seen in Canada - where did you guys learn it ? ;o) I have never ploughed personally but grew up with the great tradition of first horse and later tractor ploughmen in Scotland. Ploughing difficult land was a timeconsuming art form. My Dad employed an old boy in the 1960s that ploughed with a 3 furrow plough on the tractor - he did just about an acre an hour but the quality was such that you could broadcast the oats on the furrows and then chain harrow them in. The furrows behind the plough were probably smoother than a modern airseeder leaves the land. We used a local ploughing champion to do custom work for us laterly - a two furrow plough, all one way, at about an acre an hour - cost @$30 - $35 acre! I suppose these costs would frighten you here with the huge areas to farm!

[nerves]

I went through my notes and any one out there looking for dealerships and parts here is some info. There is a Dealer in Materthorpe 780-786-2105, and a parts distributer in Aldergrove B.C. 604-856-4010. Shears and points can picked up westward parts services ltd if you are a company or most machinery dealerships carry them and order them through westward.

[cowman]

You know with all this talk of plows I just was trying to remember the last time I ever saw a plow working? Didn't they sort of go the way of the horse and buggy?
Around my area it is pretty standard to spray with roundup and either spike it up and disk or else just use a heavy breaking disk or roto tiller. Lately a lot are just spraying out the old stand with roundup and direct seeding with a haybuster or a air seeder although it really makes a tractor work!
The neighbor killed an old stand with roundup last year and direct seeded it to barley with the air seeder...got a very good clean crop.

[nerves]

In our area just west of innisfail the area farmers are changing to Kverneland plows I know of at least 8 in a five mile radias.We are all to poor to afford 100 thousand dollar air seeders but we can afford a second hand 6 thousand dollar plow that does an excellnt job.

[bombay_43]

We bought a JD plow about 4 years ago, and have plowed approximately 700 acres since purchasing it. Plan to plow another 200 or so this year.

Up here in NE Alberta no till seeding has become popular, but my neighbors who no till, collected on crop and hail last year, due to grasshopper damage. Our crops which were seeded on plowed land, produced too high a bushel count to collect on.

We love the work a plow does on a field, and a lot of the dirt coming up to the surface has probably never seen sunlight!

I can't wait for the frost to go, so I can get out there and turn over some dirt! I just love the smell of newly plowed field!

I still think no till has its place, but once again, what works in one situation doesn't work in another.

The experts tell us that plowing will dry up our land, but I think that newly plowed land, traps the moisture in the furrows. I could be wrong.

If done properly, a plowed field is unbeatable, but I have seen some real wrecks out there also.

[blackjack]

nerves; Thankyou for the reply, I've got some old pasture land that needs to be broke up. We have used both methods,the breaking disk and the plow on dry years. Have had better success growing a cover crop after plowing,light disking with harrows and then seed. I find the comments interesting!