I love to plow.

[N80]

I've got a cheap old two bottom plow and yesterday I got it out to turn over my corn plot. I have no idea why, but I love plowing. I could do it all day. The ground was perfect and turned over neatly. And, to make things even better, when I threw it on the three point hitch it was perfectly aligned. Pure luck.....but it sure was nice.

No question here except to wonder out loud what makes plowing so satisfying.

"No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

 

[Gordon Gould]

I know the feeling. :thumbsup:
I get it when I'm running my chainsaw and every thing is going smooth.

 

[Egon]

Just watching the soil turning over and smelling the fresh soil is mesmerizing.:thumbsup:

Then there are the endless days in spring when the temperature is hovering around the freezing mark, a strong north west wind is blowing, it's an open station tractor and the deep chill slowly spreads through the body.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Argosy]

I wish I would have known you when I was a kid. I would have made your day.

 

[BoonvilleKid]

My Dad loved to plow. He could set all day on that ole John Deere "B" dragging a 2-14 plow - he didn't even want to stop for dinner. And he could run a dead-straight furrow clear across a 40-acre field, all the way to the dead furrow. I would always have to make another turn or two to clean out the dead furrow.

Sowing oats in the Spring was the job I hated. I froze my buns off every day. Being just a typical kid I wouldn't think about dressing for the weather until I set down on the tractor seat and shivered. Our fields were four miles from the house and my Dad was not about to let me go home and get more clothes (that took too much gasoline at 18.9 cents/gal. LOL). So, I shivered all day. He probably thought I'd get smarter and dress for the weather the next day. But, I never did. Ahhh...the good ole days. I'd give a lot to experience just one more cold, Spring day, pulling that 7-foot tamden disc with the John Deere "B" while working with Dad drilling oats with the Farmall Super C. I probably would still shiver from the cold, never having learned to dress for the weather, but I know now, sixty years later, I wouldn't gripe at my Dad for the situation I, not he, had created.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

They say the fragrance of lavender has a calming effect on the soul. I planted quite a few lavender plants around the house...it doesn't seem to be working. I think the fragrance of freshly turned earth has a greater calming effect...maybe we should bottle it and sell it!.

We live in a very stressful world, worrying about work, children, bills, retirement, and never anything positive on the news. To be able to sit on a tractor with a little smell of diesel and good ole mother earth is a way to escape the challenges of everyday life. Your mind can relax and take in the smells and beauty of your surroundings. The mind can relax with the only worry being plowing a straight line...

I don't get the same effect when brush hogging...stressed over those dang yellow devils that sting!

David

 

[CompactTractorFan]

I don't get the same effect when brush hogging...stressed over those dang yellow devils that sting!

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[deere755]

It can be very aggervating when you are off the tractor pulling stocks out of a plow all day that plug it up. I have to admit though last fall we plowed up several acres of hay ground and I enjoyed that. Like you said watching the soil turn over and the smell of fresh worked dirt is relaxing. I also enjoy planting.

 

[JoeinTX]

There is much to the smell of fresh turned ground. It's a pure and wholesome aroma.

Mix in the smell of gas or diesel and you know you are actually doing something with your time. I work in an office. There is no equivalent smell or sense of satisfaction that compares even when a job done extremely well.

There is no clearer or more fulfilling time I spend than that on a tractor plowing. Second is the time I spend on a tractor shredding. The smells and sensations as you noticeably cut and progress over different types of ground and vegetation is intoxicating.

 

[ccsial]

Just watching the soil turning over and smelling the fresh soil is mesmerizing.:thumbsup:

Yes. I also love the smell of freshly mowed grass mingled with an occasional whiff of diesel exhaust.

 

[Farmerford]

AMEN!

 

[bullbreaker]

It can be very aggervating when you are off the tractor pulling stocks out of a plow all day that plug it up.

Just asking for myself because I have very little experience plowing,but would'nt a coulter wheel in front of each share eliminate a lot of that.Or would that depend on condition of soil(to wet,hard,etc) ?
Boone

 

[TripleR]

It can be very aggervating when you are off the tractor pulling stocks out of a plow all day that plug it up.

Just asking for myself because I have very little experience plowing,but wouldn't a coulter wheel in front of each share eliminate a lot of that.Or would that depend on condition of soil(to wet,hard,etc) ?
Boone

It should, all of our plows had them and they never clogged up. We still have a couple, but don't use them much anymore.

When I farmed, plowing was one of my favorite things.

No one plows anymore around here unless it is for a garden.

 

[Egon]

the smell of freshly mowed grass/QUOTE]

The aroma of a fresh mowed hay field on a warm calm summer evening is one of life's ambrosias.:thumbsup:

 

[TripleR]

the smell of freshly mowed grass/QUOTE]

The aroma of a fresh mowed hay field on a warm calm summer evening is one of life's ambrosias.:thumbsup:

As long as I don't have to buck the bales, I agree.

 

[PHPaul]

I was raised on a small (120 acres) farm in central Michigan. Dad's tractors were a '49 John Deere B and a '54 McCormick Super W6. I always rode with Dad when he was plowing (3-16 John Deere plow). Loved all the same things you guys mentioned. The smell of fresh dirt, the hot tractor, the sound of that ol' W6 leaning into a load.

The first time he turned me loose to plow on my own, I thought I was on top of the world.

At the other end of the spectrum, I learned to hate cultivating corn with that B, especially the first time over right after the corn emerged. Running half throttle in 1st gear with the shields on so as not to bury the corn. Took FOREVER to cultivate 20 acres.

 

[jake98]

I spent my whole life doing carpentry/renovation, itchy saw-dust, insulation, grit, ear-wrecking noise.. There's a big difference with 'good clean dirt'. Some day I'll have some good ground to till. Lately I try to talk everyone else into letting me till their ground.

 

[Egon]

As long as I don't have to buck the bales, I agree.
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That's a given. :thumbsup:

 

[Piston]

Could a 45hp tractor pull a 2 bottom plow? I've never used a plow, but after reading your post I want to :laughing:

 

[FredH]

I don't plow , I disk , But I get the same feeling Disking . Reason for me is simple , NO BRAINER work . In other words , Unlike Field mowing with Brush Hog and constant monitoring , thinking , etc.... While Disking , I simply drop and go , get to other end and see if disk is still with me . If So , turn around and go again .:thumbsup:


Fred H.