You do a nice job of explaining farming and the equipment that you use. I also watched your videos on the farm equipment sales and they were well done. Thank you.
Thanks for watching/commenting Rodney. Explaining how farm machinery works and why farmers do things the way they do it is what this channel is all about.
Thanks for watching/commenting. This had been the standard plow design in our area for decades. You are not the first to comment on them being different, they are however the only kind John Deere makes
What's even more Impressive to me is that ivt holding up to it! Always heard bad stuff about them. I know they don't like heavy grain cart work. We had a 8430 so it was Powershift which is why he got that one instead of the 8530 he then had it tuned past 8530 specs. But I Love them 9litres barking
The sound of pre regin 9.0 liter is 1000 times better than the regin engine with it’s huge ceramic insert muffler. We’ve had 3 IVT tractors. They were always our primary “big” tractor. Had good luck with them. My cousin is a transmission mechanic for JD and he doesn’t like the IVT.
Thanks for the video, we're plowing narrower here and driving through the furrow. The tractor follows the furrow and the GPS control is on the plow. It adjusts the width with the cylinder on the plow so that it is always straight. Greetings from the Netherlands.
That’s really interesting. I’ve never seen or heard of it done with the GPS adjusting the plow. In our area farms have been slowly transitioning from “in furrow” to “on land” plows over the last few decades
@@PatrickShivers We have heavy clay soil here, and the tractors here are smaller than yours. That's why we still drive in the furrow with plows. My brother Jilles Boer is a farmer here and he also vlogs.
@@Jan-Boer I’ll check out your and your brother’s videos. Always interested to see the different ways farmers do their job. In our area farmers use to use multiple tractors with smaller implements, but as labor is getting harder and harder to find we are all transitioning to less but bigger tractors/implements
Thanks for watching & commenting. It is having some success the last 2 weeks. When I look at the “what your viewers typically watch” tab I see farm channels with 3 digits before the K (instead of one)or a M instead of a K…..so there’s still room for lots of expansion. 😅
I have parked my but on a 1066 straight pipe with a 4 bottom all day long and you could throw a rock across where I had covered all day. Been there done that. I think the more vids you put out the more people will follow. People will be interested in the entire process of a peanut prep to peanut picking I believe.
I grew up riding shotgun on a 8400 Ford pulling a Lillihston Hi-Cap. My grandpa ran 10 of them before switching to a smaller fleet of 9004 and eventually down to 3 Amadas 6 row machines
@@PatrickShivers I am heading down to visit my buddies in Sylvester soon. I will probably swing by and meet you. I love the fact the channel is doing good.
I trace my lineage to Ireland, Scotland, & England. My DNA says I have a little bit of Norway and Sweden, but I believe it to be from the Viking conquest of Britain. Scotch-Irish is what I claim.
Thanks for the advice Roy. I have them set all the way in for as little movement as possible. I can roll the speed off and GPS can hold it without brake assistance, but it gets squirrely once I pass 4.5 mph
Some of our disc harrows are equipped with what we call a middle buster. It is a disc mounted on it’s own in between the two gains that grabs the “middle” ground the gains. The only real change in bottom plows around here in the last 50 years is that they are increasingly more “on land” style instead of “in furrow”
@@PatrickShivers we seldom use a bottom plow here in East Central Georgia, but when we did, we had a Harrell 6 bottom switch plow with the on land hitch. It allowed us to keep the duals on.
@@MultiBaldEagle in our area every plow is JD or Harrell and the Harrells are all in furrow. I’ve seen less and less Harrells over the past decade. Lemken is starting to try to break into our market.
Using the brakes to stay on course can cause a little more wear on the brakes. But you are doing what you have to do to keep it straight. How often do you have to pan plow your land?
Breaking land around here is only done when peanuts are going to be planted in a field. Most farmers are on 3 year rotation. This field has been in hay production for 4 years.
Proves that things used long, long ago still have a place today. Does this make the ground ready for planting, or do you still need something like a Salford disc set up to smooth it out?
I didn’t check when I was pulling it, but I am hooking back up to it after I finish with this plow. I will give you a fuel comparison. Thanks for asking
We’re running JD8285R MFWD tractors with single fronts & dual rears. What type moleboard or flip plows do you recommend ? We raise corn, cotton, soybeans and some rice. In Arkansas. Thanks!
Where I live about 70% of plows are John Deere, of which probably 50-60% are in furrow. The remaining 30% are almost all Harrell flip plows. Lemken is trying to break into our market but is still pretty rare down here. I can’t tell you what works best for your conditions, as I don’t farm where you farm. My advice is when you see a local farmer that gets the results you like look at their setup.
Man you got some good eyes! That’s my favorite video to. It’s the one that finally got my channel growing. The tractor was on a narrow spacing when I got it and after I finished bottom plowing we widened it for 36” rows
I think the one I’m about to release (a peanut harvest video with custom musical soundtrack) is my best video yet, but it won’t touch the views/subs/$ of massive plow
@@PatrickShivers got any advice for a guy that wants to branch out and farm on his own. Should I get a personal loan or fool with USDA. I’m really scared to buy one of these 8000R tractors. The trans and motor scare me. I want thinking of leasing an 8R 250-340. If I could find the 2008-2011 that’s ideal.
It’s a KMC V Ripper. The wavy coulters came on it from the factory. They are mounted on arms that are part of the foot assembly so that they are always directly in front of foot. They do swivel (to help keep from destroying bearings). There is also height adjustment. Most of the wavies are currently not on it as several needed bearings and they are not necessary when running behind fresh disced ground.
"Switch Plows" are way easier on the tractor than "roll over" Plows! Subsoilers pull harder than anything else, even turn Plows. You don't move as much dirt, but you are going deeper in the hard stuff.
I haven't tried switch plough, but from what i have seen, it seems it doesn't do well in cover crops or anything with large ammount of residue. My "roll over" plough takes 11-13l/ha in dry light soil conditions up to 17-18l/ha in wet and heavy soil. And result is almost perfect. You can see it in my channel.
In the southeast we only turn land ahead of planting peanuts. Most farms are on 3 year rotation….so most field get turned once every 3 years. It has been 5 years since this particular field was turned.
Sounds like a cool old school rig & I’m sure it gets the job done. I’ve never ran a 4450, but my grandfather bought a 4430 brand new in the 70s and we still use it all the time. One of the best tractors JD ever made.
We typically do that exact thing. I am a one man operation now so I can’t stay right behind it with cultivator, but luckily we have heavy cloud cover and some light mist right now
I’m not a farmer but both sides of my family are and have been since forever..I’m curious about the nutrition of the soil being turned over, now that the top soil is on the bottom..do you have to hit it with a lot of fertilizer for the same results?
It’s all still top soil. I’m flipping 12”-15” of topsoil over. It buries weed seeds at a depth they can germ but to deep to emerge. Bottom plowing also reduces nematode pressure. The subsoiler reaches down 18”-24” (below the top soil and into the hard pan) to improve drainage in the top soil and help prevent areas of standing water in fields.
Well, I was wondering what kind of popcorn you grow and I just saw one your video clips that answered that question-MUSHROOM and BUTTERFLY popcorn, YES! Could you tell me how and where I could purchase some?
I’ve never ran a switch plow, only flip plows. I always heard the switch plows were harder to pull. Have also heard that odd number of bottoms on a switch plow made it harder to pull than even numbers. What say you?
8 bottom is easier to pull than 7 b/c even number of plows on either side of pivot point. We’ve always used 7s and 5s. A 4755 in furrow with 5 can get it done as good as anything, this setup just helps me cover more ground in a day
We use to have a guy that ran a 4755 in furrow on the farm for weeks on end. My cousin asked him one time if he laid crooked in the bed at night…..he said he did 😅
Subsoiling ahead of the plow is how i’m able to get it to 15”+. This particular field hadn’t been tilled in 4 years and plowing without subsoiling first would have resulted in huge clods, broke plow points, and a lot of time spent for unacceptable results.
I am located in north Georgia and trying to get in to cream peas. Any advice on a good sheller and blower. My wife and I have been building our direct to consumer farm from scratch for the last 10 years and we are always looking for advice.
How many bushels you trying to shell? I have a Thomson Industries blower that I love coupled with a modified shaker pan I got from a Michigan pickle factory.
@@PatrickShivers we currently only plants 3/4 of acre in peas twice a year for our customers. how ever we have the opportunity to grow and shell for large markets in our area. We currently use a homemade sheller that my great uncle made 50 years ago. I know it won’t hold up and we pick through by hand with no blower. Just looking in to the future. I appreciate you video and sharing your knowledge.
Acreage varies from year to year. In my videos you will see me doing Peanuts, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, wheat, southern peas, sweet peas, green beans, Butterbeans, potatoes, carrots, onions, pecans, & cattle. I also sometimes do soybeans, cherry tomatoes, and pumpkins; but there are no videos of them on here. We also have a few hundred acres of planted pines. There is a couple videos of us doing the winter burning & walking through them looking for deer antler sheds.
@@PatrickShivers Thats awesome. In my young days i was always at the farm with my dad and uncle. Loved it. My uncle passed away shorly after getting hit by a train on his wat back from buying new combine. My dad passed a few years later and the farm was sold. I was only 9 or 10 but i think of those days with them on the farm all the time.
I have the wedges on the quick hitch pushed all the way in to eliminate as much hitch movement as possible. The slides behind each plow are all freshly flipped and even worn (which should help with lateral movements)
No. This field was disced deep ahead of the bottom plow to help it get into the ground. The ground rolls off of the plows and flips over. What was on top is then 15” deep and vice versa. Discing doesn’t flip the ground over, it just stirs it up. Plowing in the southeast is primarily a peanut land prep activity. Plowing reduces disease in peanuts, increases yield, and makes it where they can be more easily dug.
Peanuts can not be successfully grown in no-till. Numerous universities conduct trials on that as well as various levels of tillage before peanuts every year. The trials still universally show that bottom plowing substantially reduces disease and weed pressure, which means less use of chemicals and higher yields. In our particular region the peanuts also can’t be harvested if the ground wasn’t plowed ahead of planting as they will come off when they are attempted to be dug.
I flipped the slides to begin wearing the un-worn edge before starting this field. I have since added shims to the lift arms to prevent any hitch movement
Looks good. But your bottom plow is not a moldboard plow, with longer moldboards curved back and turning The ground completely over with a disc running ahead to slit the ground. Two different implements.
John Deere calls it a moldboard plow🤷🏼♂️. Look up 995 plow on their website. The coulters ahead of the plow were an option on older JD models. Lempken still makes the shape plow you are describing. I have not run one, but a farmer in the county east of me has one and reportedly pulls it 6-7mph. I’m running 4.5-5mph.
It has been disced and subsoiled ahead of the turning plow so that it is able to get to the proper depth and flip the dirt. This field had previously not been tilled for 4 years and a plow would not go in the ground or get the desired results without tilling ahead of plow
@@dennisvogelius8602 those Lemken plows with press wheel attachment that y’all run are pretty cool. Lemken has started selling a few plows here in the states, but the quick release/re-attach press wheel option isn’t available here.
@@PatrickShivers Lemken and Kverneland makes EXCEPTIONALLY good plows. The good thing with them is that they also are very efficient with the fuel when CORRECTLY set up. When done right they dont pull to any sides. They just do their job.
I pull a 4 bottom Long switch plow easily with a 115 Case IH Max tractor so I don't think that Deere with all it's ponies will have any trouble with that 8. Harder to lift and tote than pull.
I subsoiled that field ahead of plowing so I could pull it easier. 8 bottoms are scarce around here (and there are none bigger than 8 here) b/c it’s hard to move plows that size through red clay.
Its red clay that has been subsoiled ahead of the plow. Had to disc ahead of subsoiler b/c ground was so hard the subsoiler wouldn’t penetrate. I literally said all of that in the video
@@PatrickShivers it was a horse in the field and a dependable tractor but not as nice to run as our 8310Rs lol never ran an 8530 had an 8340 loved it too our 8360R was not a great tractor
@@MarkPenfoldfarmfilm laying a board across the ground in front of lead plow. Leveling the side throwing dirt to match the side on virgin ground then measuring from bottom of board to the bottom of the plow
If you ride the brakes it will get them hot and you need some brake work why I say that I know somebody road to break trying to break it got them break
Where I farm at most of the ground is red clay. Bricks for home construction are made out of this dirt. Hardest dirt in the country. Not only does no farmers here use red plows, I’ve never even seen one in person. There is red tractors here but no red plows. All plows are made by Harrell Ag, John Deere, or Lemken.
I get that comment a lot. Maybe what I consider “riding the brake” and what everyone considers riding are two different things. I’m not on it all the time, foot is resting on it & bumping it as needed. In my lifetime we have had to put brakes on one tractor. I also use the brakes/dif lock when laying off rows with strip till or bedder.
John Deere literature for this plow refers to it as a Reversible Plow.. I've never heard them called "turning" or "bottom" plows.. Deere: Reversible Moldboard Plows !!
They are mostly known as bottom plows in this area. People over 70 years old refer to them as turning plows (turning the land over). Virtually no one on the southeast uses the term moldboard, which is what JD calls it
You do a nice job of explaining farming and the equipment that you use. I also watched your videos on the farm equipment sales and they were well done. Thank you.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thanks for taking the time to explain the details of what the plow is doing and what happens if it doesn't work accordingly.🙋♂️
Thanks for watching/commenting Rodney. Explaining how farm machinery works and why farmers do things the way they do it is what this channel is all about.
The 8530 is no joke! One of the best JD ever made in my opinion! Always loved running them... probably even more than the 8330 or our old 4560
8530, 8400, and 4960 were the best ever made.
Good-looking setup Patrick..love the smell of fresh earth after plowing..
good video, things have changed a lot since i left farming 45 years ago, i do miss it
A lot of innovation the last 2 decades
Great video. I have never seen plow shares like those. I could smell the dirt as you were turning it! We used a Farmall M with 3 16 inch bottoms.
Thanks for watching/commenting. This had been the standard plow design in our area for decades. You are not the first to comment on them being different, they are however the only kind John Deere makes
Enjoyed the video. Especially since we still have 3 ft of snow on our garden spot here in Upper Michigan.
We get almost an inch of snow every 12-15 years😂 It’s been 80 degrees for 2 weeks down here
Great, thanks Man 💪 for all your videos!! it's almost peas time!!
I’m waiting on rain to put sweet peas in the ground. Already a week late.
@@PatrickShivers Have a great weekend Friend!
What's even more Impressive to me is that ivt holding up to it! Always heard bad stuff about them. I know they don't like heavy grain cart work. We had a 8430 so it was Powershift which is why he got that one instead of the 8530 he then had it tuned past 8530 specs. But I Love them 9litres barking
The sound of pre regin 9.0 liter is 1000 times better than the regin engine with it’s huge ceramic insert muffler. We’ve had 3 IVT tractors. They were always our primary “big” tractor. Had good luck with them. My cousin is a transmission mechanic for JD and he doesn’t like the IVT.
Thanks for the video, we're plowing narrower here and driving through the furrow. The tractor follows the furrow and the GPS control is on the plow. It adjusts the width with the cylinder on the plow so that it is always straight. Greetings from the Netherlands.
That’s really interesting. I’ve never seen or heard of it done with the GPS adjusting the plow. In our area farms have been slowly transitioning from “in furrow” to “on land” plows over the last few decades
@@PatrickShivers We have heavy clay soil here, and the tractors here are smaller than yours. That's why we still drive in the furrow with plows. My brother Jilles Boer is a farmer here and he also vlogs.
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@@Jan-Boer I’ll check out your and your brother’s videos. Always interested to see the different ways farmers do their job. In our area farmers use to use multiple tractors with smaller implements, but as labor is getting harder and harder to find we are all transitioning to less but bigger tractors/implements
I love it. The channel is growing fast.
Thanks for watching & commenting. It is having some success the last 2 weeks. When I look at the “what your viewers typically watch” tab I see farm channels with 3 digits before the K (instead of one)or a M instead of a K…..so there’s still room for lots of expansion. 😅
In Va we call those switch plows. I remember breaking land with a reg 4 bottom in furrow ford. We also had a 4 bottom jd on land flip plow
This brings back good memories.I guess it will always be in our blood.
Love it always good videos
Great video! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for watching/commenting!
That was awesome. Great video.
Thanks for watching & commenting!
Thanks for sharing this is good stuff peanut trucks leads me down the backroads just county i geuss .
Thanks for watching Paul
I have parked my but on a 1066 straight pipe with a 4 bottom all day long and you could throw a rock across where I had covered all day. Been there done that. I think the more vids you put out the more people will follow. People will be interested in the entire process of a peanut prep to peanut picking I believe.
The old 2 row cotton picker days was the worst. An hour from now your left tire is were your right one was.
@@PatrickShivers Should tell you I ran a 1500 lilliston picker also. 1822 caseIh brand new was a dream for me.
I grew up riding shotgun on a 8400 Ford pulling a Lillihston Hi-Cap. My grandpa ran 10 of them before switching to a smaller fleet of 9004 and eventually down to 3 Amadas 6 row machines
@@PatrickShivers I am heading down to visit my buddies in Sylvester soon. I will probably swing by and meet you. I love the fact the channel is doing good.
I'd take a 1066 Inter over that plastic JD junk any day.
Hello! Nice job with a fine plough...
Thanks Luis!
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Vejo aqui do Brasil um excelente trabalho seu, está pronto para o plantio. Boa colheita
Thanks for watching Herivelto. I’ll smooth it up with a field cultivator just before planting.
Well explained, keep it up. The UA-cam algorithm likes it. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 ...
Thanks for watching from the homeland!
@@PatrickShivers very informative videos. I'm in Dundalk. I was thinking your surname was Irish or Scottish.
I trace my lineage to Ireland, Scotland, & England. My DNA says I have a little bit of Norway and Sweden, but I believe it to be from the Viking conquest of Britain. Scotch-Irish is what I claim.
I set sway blocks to hold plow solid when raised and allow movement when down plowing. Makes it easier to drive without brakes.
Thanks for the advice Roy. I have them set all the way in for as little movement as possible. I can roll the speed off and GPS can hold it without brake assistance, but it gets squirrely once I pass 4.5 mph
Steering with brakes😊
Great video and equally great description of what is happening during the plowing process. Are middle busters used anymore?
Some of our disc harrows are equipped with what we call a middle buster. It is a disc mounted on it’s own in between the two gains that grabs the “middle” ground the gains. The only real change in bottom plows around here in the last 50 years is that they are increasingly more “on land” style instead of “in furrow”
@@PatrickShivers we seldom use a bottom plow here in East Central Georgia, but when we did, we had a Harrell 6 bottom switch plow with the on land hitch. It allowed us to keep the duals on.
@@MultiBaldEagle in our area every plow is JD or Harrell and the Harrells are all in furrow. I’ve seen less and less Harrells over the past decade. Lemken is starting to try to break into our market.
That 8530 is putting in some work.
Yea it is.
Breaking land, plowing up peanuts & picking peanuts are my favorite thing to do
I have long been advocating for “peanut season” cologne. There is no better scent than fresh dug peanuts
Amen. Love video’s brother. Check my channel out mite like it ? God bless.
Enjoyed The Video
Thanks for watching Steven!
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Your clay crumbles up a lot nicer behind the plow than our ‘gumbo’ in South Dakota.
Down here we call it 30 minute dirt. It’ll go from to wet to to dry/hard in 30 minutes
Using the brakes to stay on course can cause a little more wear on the brakes. But you are doing what you have to do to keep it straight. How often do you have to pan plow your land?
Breaking land around here is only done when peanuts are going to be planted in a field. Most farmers are on 3 year rotation. This field has been in hay production for 4 years.
Proves that things used long, long ago still have a place today. Does this make the ground ready for planting, or do you still need something like a Salford disc set up to smooth it out?
We have to run a field cultivator behind the plow to smooth it up.
How many gallons of fuel do you burn an hour pulling the sub soiler?
Thanks for the video!
I didn’t check when I was pulling it, but I am hooking back up to it after I finish with this plow. I will give you a fuel comparison. Thanks for asking
Were you using auto steer or did you have to manually steer because of the plow causing the tractor not wanting to track straight?
All auto steer, I help it out with left or right brake when it can’t hold the line
We’re running JD8285R MFWD tractors with single fronts & dual rears.
What type moleboard or flip plows do you recommend ?
We raise corn, cotton, soybeans and some rice.
In Arkansas.
Thanks!
Where I live about 70% of plows are John Deere, of which probably 50-60% are in furrow. The remaining 30% are almost all Harrell flip plows. Lemken is trying to break into our market but is still pretty rare down here. I can’t tell you what works best for your conditions, as I don’t farm where you farm. My advice is when you see a local farmer that gets the results you like look at their setup.
love it!
Thanks Steve. That was last year. I should be releasing this year’s plow video within the next few days
Best sund jd tractor ever haha
You gotta excuse me for watching this video again, this just my favorite video of that 85, is the 8530 on a Sixty inch wheel base? It looks narrow.
Man you got some good eyes! That’s my favorite video to. It’s the one that finally got my channel growing. The tractor was on a narrow spacing when I got it and after I finished bottom plowing we widened it for 36” rows
I think the one I’m about to release (a peanut harvest video with custom musical soundtrack) is my best video yet, but it won’t touch the views/subs/$ of massive plow
@@PatrickShivers got any advice for a guy that wants to branch out and farm on his own. Should I get a personal loan or fool with USDA.
I’m really scared to buy one of these 8000R tractors. The trans and motor scare me. I want thinking of leasing an 8R 250-340. If I could find the 2008-2011 that’s ideal.
What kind of wavy coulter assembly is that on 11 shank v ripper? I like that
It’s a KMC V Ripper. The wavy coulters came on it from the factory. They are mounted on arms that are part of the foot assembly so that they are always directly in front of foot. They do swivel (to help keep from destroying bearings). There is also height adjustment. Most of the wavies are currently not on it as several needed bearings and they are not necessary when running behind fresh disced ground.
Some people call that a switch plow since you can shift from right to left hand throw.
You are exactly right. When I was editing the footage I realized I had left that name out.
These are nice plows I think you don't have a dead fer to fill but tractor seems to be pulling good but it's a john deere so it should
That 8530 is a beast. If you’re unfamiliar, it is the last pre regin big tractor JD built. Just pure unbridled horses.
Yes you are right I love my John Deere tractors that 8530 it will pull it good
@@williamcorleu5839 8530 is one of the best tractors JD ever made. I love that tractor
"Switch Plows" are way easier on the tractor than "roll over" Plows! Subsoilers pull harder than anything else, even turn Plows. You don't move as much dirt, but you are going deeper in the hard stuff.
Exactly
I haven't tried switch plough, but from what i have seen, it seems it doesn't do well in cover crops or anything with large ammount of residue. My "roll over" plough takes 11-13l/ha in dry light soil conditions up to 17-18l/ha in wet and heavy soil. And result is almost perfect. You can see it in my channel.
So do you turn this each season, seems like a lot of wear and tear on driver and tractor but I do understand the necessity for this . enjoyed tks.
In the southeast we only turn land ahead of planting peanuts. Most farms are on 3 year rotation….so most field get turned once every 3 years. It has been 5 years since this particular field was turned.
8530 is a Beast probably would help if u move duals in Closer more Traction
I got the front and rear wheels let all the way in, but all the duals are on full row extensions. Probably would help to shoulder them up.
What of brand peanut combine do you plan on using for your crop?
Amadas
That rig is a whole lot bigger than my 4450 and international 4 bottom flip plow😂
Sounds like a cool old school rig & I’m sure it gets the job done. I’ve never ran a 4450, but my grandfather bought a 4430 brand new in the 70s and we still use it all the time. One of the best tractors JD ever made.
Good videos hope you make more. NW NC.
Thanks for your support! I have 163 of them on my channel and am currently putting out 1-2 a week.
We run the field cultivator right behind the plow but can never get it to fill in the furrows on the ends so we have to disk the ends
We typically do that exact thing. I am a one man operation now so I can’t stay right behind it with cultivator, but luckily we have heavy cloud cover and some light mist right now
Moldboard🙌🙌. You look like you’re around the Southern AL or GA area?
Southwest Ga. Near Dothan, Al
I’m not a farmer but both sides of my family are and have been since forever..I’m curious about the nutrition of the soil being turned over, now that the top soil is on the bottom..do you have to hit it with a lot of fertilizer for the same results?
It’s all still top soil. I’m flipping 12”-15” of topsoil over. It buries weed seeds at a depth they can germ but to deep to emerge. Bottom plowing also reduces nematode pressure. The subsoiler reaches down 18”-24” (below the top soil and into the hard pan) to improve drainage in the top soil and help prevent areas of standing water in fields.
@@PatrickShivers well that answers that question, thx..
Really interesting video! Do you also grow alot of corn?
In this area peanuts and cotton account for most of the acres. I have 160 acres of corn this year.
What kind of corn, sweet corn, field corn? How do you harvest it, just the ears or the whole stalk?@@PatrickShivers
@@tscjsc3519 field corn with combine, look for video in next few days. 2 varieties of Popcorn ears pulled by hand
Wow! Can't wait to see the video. Especially interesting you harvesting popcorn. I grew up LOVING POPCORN.@@PatrickShivers
Well, I was wondering what kind of popcorn you grow and I just saw one your video clips that answered that question-MUSHROOM and BUTTERFLY popcorn, YES! Could you tell me how and where I could purchase some?
I’ve never ran a switch plow, only flip plows. I always heard the switch plows were harder to pull. Have also heard that odd number of bottoms on a switch plow made it harder to pull than even numbers. What say you?
8 bottom is easier to pull than 7 b/c even number of plows on either side of pivot point. We’ve always used 7s and 5s. A 4755 in furrow with 5 can get it done as good as anything, this setup just helps me cover more ground in a day
We use to have a guy that ran a 4755 in furrow on the farm for weeks on end. My cousin asked him one time if he laid crooked in the bed at night…..he said he did 😅
We call it a breaking plow up here in Eastern North Carolina.
Loved watching your video but us old timers call that a land farror not a ditch. Have fun
Furrow
@@ralphross2357 Guess us old folks needs to Wear glasses. Thanks for the help
Plowing after sub soiling causes compaction all over again at the plow depth. The deepest moldboard plows go here is 9-10 inches.
Subsoiling ahead of the plow is how i’m able to get it to 15”+. This particular field hadn’t been tilled in 4 years and plowing without subsoiling first would have resulted in huge clods, broke plow points, and a lot of time spent for unacceptable results.
I am located in north Georgia and trying to get in to cream peas. Any advice on a good sheller and blower. My wife and I have been building our direct to consumer farm from scratch for the last 10 years and we are always looking for advice.
How many bushels you trying to shell? I have a Thomson Industries blower that I love coupled with a modified shaker pan I got from a Michigan pickle factory.
My biggest advice is to get someone(s) else to grow and harvest the peas and you focus on processing unless you have reliable Guatemalan labor.
@@PatrickShivers we currently only plants 3/4 of acre in peas twice a year for our customers. how ever we have the opportunity to grow and shell for large markets in our area. We currently use a homemade sheller that my great uncle made 50 years ago. I know it won’t hold up and we pick through by hand with no blower. Just looking in to the future. I appreciate you video and sharing your knowledge.
I miss breaking peanut land!
Are you holding up crappie in your pic? Aka white perch
Where can a 995 Plow be purchased and at what price?
We are running JD8285R tractors. In Arkansas.
I see them at every farm equipment auction. Search online farm auctions. They range from 5 bottom to 8 bottom, prices can vary significantly
How many acres do you farm and what crops do you farm?
Acreage varies from year to year. In my videos you will see me doing Peanuts, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, wheat, southern peas, sweet peas, green beans, Butterbeans, potatoes, carrots, onions, pecans, & cattle. I also sometimes do soybeans, cherry tomatoes, and pumpkins; but there are no videos of them on here. We also have a few hundred acres of planted pines. There is a couple videos of us doing the winter burning & walking through them looking for deer antler sheds.
@@PatrickShivers Thats awesome. In my young days i was always at the farm with my dad and uncle. Loved it. My uncle passed away shorly after getting hit by a train on his wat back from buying new combine. My dad passed a few years later and the farm was sold. I was only 9 or 10 but i think of those days with them on the farm all the time.
In the past we’ve taken the sway blocks off to help with the tractor pulling one sided.
I have the wedges on the quick hitch pushed all the way in to eliminate as much hitch movement as possible. The slides behind each plow are all freshly flipped and even worn (which should help with lateral movements)
When. Will peanuts be ready to boil
Late August
How many acres are you planting?
In peanuts about 140. When I worked for my father and my brother-in-law we averaged around 800 acres of nuts.
Looks like good ole GA clay
Southwest Georgia’s finest.
América first !
Why do you not use the gps and let it steer the tractor? We run the same plows out here in ore .
The GPS is driving the tractor. I’m having to assist it using the left/right brakes to keep tractor out of furrow and within desired margin
I called that add on a knock down rake.
Sounds like an appropriate name.
That is a bull of a tractor but it has a mouthful to chew with that plow.
Amen
It's got to be a tough one how you put the pressure on it John Deere can't take it
It says can't take it I meant it can take it
Can you accomplish this task with a large deep disc plow ?
No. This field was disced deep ahead of the bottom plow to help it get into the ground. The ground rolls off of the plows and flips over. What was on top is then 15” deep and vice versa. Discing doesn’t flip the ground over, it just stirs it up. Plowing in the southeast is primarily a peanut land prep activity. Plowing reduces disease in peanuts, increases yield, and makes it where they can be more easily dug.
Why not no till plant the crop ?
Peanuts can not be successfully grown in no-till. Numerous universities conduct trials on that as well as various levels of tillage before peanuts every year. The trials still universally show that bottom plowing substantially reduces disease and weed pressure, which means less use of chemicals and higher yields. In our particular region the peanuts also can’t be harvested if the ground wasn’t plowed ahead of planting as they will come off when they are attempted to be dug.
You need the land slide kit from John Deere
I flipped the slides to begin wearing the un-worn edge before starting this field. I have since added shims to the lift arms to prevent any hitch movement
Looks good. But your bottom plow is not a moldboard plow, with longer moldboards curved back and turning The ground completely over with a disc running ahead to slit the ground. Two different implements.
John Deere calls it a moldboard plow🤷🏼♂️. Look up 995 plow on their website. The coulters ahead of the plow were an option on older JD models. Lempken still makes the shape plow you are describing. I have not run one, but a farmer in the county east of me has one and reportedly pulls it 6-7mph. I’m running 4.5-5mph.
How come you're going over ground it's already been worked with a plow
It has been disced and subsoiled ahead of the turning plow so that it is able to get to the proper depth and flip the dirt. This field had previously not been tilled for 4 years and a plow would not go in the ground or get the desired results without tilling ahead of plow
Those are some WEIRD moldboards :O
It’s the standard John Deere plow design. We’ve been running that design moldboards for 30+ years.
@@PatrickShivers Just to me SOOO different than what we see here in Europe :)
@@dennisvogelius8602 those Lemken plows with press wheel attachment that y’all run are pretty cool. Lemken has started selling a few plows here in the states, but the quick release/re-attach press wheel option isn’t available here.
@@PatrickShivers Lemken and Kverneland makes EXCEPTIONALLY good plows.
The good thing with them is that they also are very efficient with the fuel when CORRECTLY set up.
When done right they dont pull to any sides. They just do their job.
@@dennisvogelius8602 great info Dennis! Thanks for watching & commenting
I pull a 4 bottom Long switch plow easily with a 115 Case IH Max tractor so I don't think that Deere with all it's ponies will have any trouble with that 8. Harder to lift and tote than pull.
I subsoiled that field ahead of plowing so I could pull it easier. 8 bottoms are scarce around here (and there are none bigger than 8 here) b/c it’s hard to move plows that size through red clay.
Where can I get a Tractor?
TractorHouse.com
Where you from
Clay county Georgia
You're only plowing in soft dirt, It's a lot different when you plow in rocky and hard ground.
Its red clay that has been subsoiled ahead of the plow. Had to disc ahead of subsoiler b/c ground was so hard the subsoiler wouldn’t penetrate. I literally said all of that in the video
The tractor plows better in furrow.
Don’t see many new in furrow plows around here. The on land plows, like mine, are becoming more popular.
I pulled an 8 bottom plow with a 2-135 white tractor
How did you like that White? I’ve never been around one or known anyone that has one.
@@PatrickShivers it was a horse in the field and a dependable tractor but not as nice to run as our 8310Rs lol never ran an 8530 had an 8340 loved it too our 8360R was not a great tractor
Thumbs down on 8335R as well
Good job but not 15” really is it
That’s what Stanley tape measure said. 12”-17” averaging 15”
@@PatrickShivers from the top of uncultivated land to the bottom of the landslide or top of cultivated to the bottom of the landslide ?
@@MarkPenfoldfarmfilm laying a board across the ground in front of lead plow. Leveling the side throwing dirt to match the side on virgin ground then measuring from bottom of board to the bottom of the plow
If you ride the brakes it will get them hot and you need some brake work why I say that I know somebody road to break trying to break it got them break
Like 2 see that plow in corn stalks u would need a RED plow john deere never made a plow!
Where I farm at most of the ground is red clay. Bricks for home construction are made out of this dirt. Hardest dirt in the country. Not only does no farmers here use red plows, I’ve never even seen one in person. There is red tractors here but no red plows. All plows are made by Harrell Ag, John Deere, or Lemken.
Use yor dif lok-not yor brakes-u'll burn them out
Good video, but definitely not deep enough, you’re only going about 10”.
Tape measure averaged 15”-17” 🤷🏼♂️
You will be putting brakes on that tractor if you ride she gets them hot sorry to say it but you be putting some on
I get that comment a lot. Maybe what I consider “riding the brake” and what everyone considers riding are two different things. I’m not on it all the time, foot is resting on it & bumping it as needed. In my lifetime we have had to put brakes on one tractor. I also use the brakes/dif lock when laying off rows with strip till or bedder.
I don't mean nothing by what I say you got a good tractor
Please lord don't let me buy that tractor when he's done with it...
😂
He don't baby it's he works the crap out of that 8530
John Deere literature for this plow refers to it as a Reversible Plow.. I've never heard them called "turning" or "bottom" plows..
Deere: Reversible Moldboard Plows !!
They are mostly known as bottom plows in this area. People over 70 years old refer to them as turning plows (turning the land over). Virtually no one on the southeast uses the term moldboard, which is what JD calls it