Muddy last day of plowing 2008

http://www.cedarlodgefarms.com

For photos to go along with this video and others, please check out the photoblog on the website.

This was December 1st 2008. Down to the last 5 acres to plow. The ground had been frozen solid for about 10 days previous so no plowing was possible. It warmed up and rained a few inches softening the ground enough to get the plows in. We were able to finish 100% of our plowing for the first time in a few years. It isn't actually all that muddy, just greasy on stiff partially frozen soil. The muddy bit is just to attract more people to the video.

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• deere
• JD
• case
• ih
• New
• Holland
• NH
• cih
• plowing
• tillage
• mud
• wet
• corn

[chester8420]

If I were to plough our red soil wet like that, it would be as hard as the Interstate highway when it dried out. And if by some act of god, I was ever able to get some machine to pierce its surface, I would have boulders and bricks for years to come. You would totally ruin a field here if you did something like that to it. I thoroughly enjoyed the video although I feel a little sick after having seen it.

[Farmerknowsbest]

@chester8420 Ground is frozen under the water. That is snow melt in december on top of frozen ground. Got warm enough to melt the snow and allow the plow to break through the crust, but not enough to let the water soak in. No soil damage at all!

[wilko1297000]

why dont u wait a few days till it dries up? that headland is gonna be packed to fuck! even if ur plowing it after, the compaction is deeper than the depth u are plowing.

[Farmerknowsbest]

@wilko1297000

Actually the corn grew just as well on the headland as the rest of the field the next year. That was in December, waiting a few days would have meant spring plowing as the ground froze the very next day.

[MegaJohndeere1]

@Farmerknowsbest and you got what 80 bushel an acre 

[Farmerknowsbest]

@MegaJohndeere1

That farm consistently does 165bpa in corn and 50bpa in beans. It is a heavy clay loam soil with a very stony sub soil. Ripping isn't an option and in 2008 there was a wet fall and little could be no-tilled. You are more than likely not from eastern Ontario and therefor can in no way make an educated assessment of yields or how plowing will affect the soil here.

[Farmerknowsbest]

@killaking941 You know, for a 29 year old you write an awful lot like you are 12.

[maverick12212000]

@killaking941 You obviously have no concept of anything to do with farming. I wouldn't have a 8650 Deere if it was given to me. We have a 9170 CASE IH and it is a workhorse. The deeres of those vintages are good paperweights...with the exception of a few. I don't understand the point of paying for GREEN paint when a red, or blue, or orange or whatever tractor will do just as good of a job for a lot less. Parts are less expensive too, and made in the US, not China like Deere!

[MiniMaersk]

Looks very interresting. I might need to never try this.

kkthxbai

[case580fowner]

@wstarcummins JD do feel very proud of their coulor and thier name, maybe thats their key to success in buisness. but personal i do agree that their so many other companies which have better advantages than JD tractors. i would buy magnum or fendt 939 (so many more advantages) over an 8R, but what people don't get is its overated becuase of the of the new look and style, so JD sucks all the way

[nudist0885]

A farmer gave me a ride on a machine similar to this just 2 weeks ago. It had the plow type thing in the back but the one that he had went straight across (not at an angle like this one) and it was twice or thrice as wide. He was only going about 5 miles an hour because he was trying to save gas rather than get the job done quickly.

Man, was that a bumpy ride.

But I'd love to do it by myself.

[TheTRX500]

@killaking941 case are a great tractor...thers not a heat wrong with them there the same as new-hollands when your john deere gives bother and your out a fortune and the case goes flying by then you will know about how good your deere is :)

[crazyman7000]

think you should of waited cuz u just made more of a mess

[CaribouLou151run]

@killaking941 that tractor is all time 4x4 num nuts

[volff130]

@cormus1 thats true but if the factory sends them out fucked up theres nothin you can do, i now a guy who bought 3 brand new JDs with the bullet rotorys and the first day out ALL 3 had the rotory shaft brake and stuffed it straght forwardand screwed a lot up , the ran for 5 hours in grass seed

[cnhfarms]

@cormus1 your right i just like giving shit.