Left hand mold board plows

[bulldogs28]

why is all the plows right hand turn?

 

[KennyG]

Because there is no need to have left hand plows. See this reference for why the right hand became standard.

The Great Plow Debate

 

[oldnslo]

There are left hand plow but they are only made with roll over style or some times called turn over plows. These have a row of bottoms for plowing back & forth through the field and not leaving a dead furrow. Were used out west for flood irrigation land to prevent dead furrows and you could roll the land east one then west the next year to keep field flat.

 

[LouNY]

There are left hand plow but they are only made with roll over style or some times called turn over plows. These have a row of bottoms for plowing back & forth through the field and not leaving a dead furrow. Were used out west for flood irrigation land to prevent dead furrows and you could roll the land east one then west the next year to keep field flat.

A very handy plow to use kept the dead furrows and back furrows to a minimum, and points and shins lasted twice as long, the only trouble was it took twice as long and cost twice as much to replace them when it was time.

 

[LouNY]

Because there is no need to have left hand plows. See this reference for why the right hand became standard.

The Great Plow Debate

Interesting article, almost all tractor pull type implements that are not centered are right hand offset, combines, mowers choppers, balers.
It has created an interesting body condition in many people in that when running equipment we twisted in our seats and looked over our
right shoulders so much that even today many of us can turn our heads much further to the right then the left.
Personally I have twice the rotation to the right that I do to the left.

 

[ptsg]

There are indeed left hand plow, just don't seem to be very common in the US.

Here is what we call automatic reversing plow, it's a pretty neat system though. And then there are the hydraulic ones.



And a quick video of the reversing action:

 

[LouNY]

The turnover plows are quite common in the Western states with ditch and flood irrigation.
They are available in some pretty good sized units.
Multi-Leader Plows - Optimized Plowing for Maximum Productivity | Kuhn

 

[pmsmechanic]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most of the first binders were left hand. There were even some left hand combines in the early years.

 

[pmsmechanic]

1954 Farmall Super C Complete and Rare Plow Collection for Sale - YouTube

Start watching around 2:35 for a plow similar to post #6

 

[LouNY]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most of the first binders were left hand. There were even some left hand combines in the early years.

Could have been the only ones that I recall seeing were mostly IH and they were right handed as I recall.

 

[RickB]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most of the first binders were left hand. There were even some left hand combines in the early years.

And combines, forage harvesters and some square balers.

 

[DJ54]

I have one of those automatic flip plows, like in the video. I use it occasionally in the garden. Saves a lot of deadheading, since I alwaysplow it oneway, up hill, because of the slight slope. Nice not to have a dead furrow to deal with. It takes about 15 minutes to hook, and unhook the mechanism up to the lift system to make it flip. I made a short video, the day I got it hooled up and working for the first time in many years. Automatic flip video 002 - YouTube

I used electrolysis to clean up the moldboards, snd shares it did a very nice job.

 

[bigtiller]

This left handed plow was interesting to the guy inspecting it because he is left handed also.

 

[LouNY]

Now I am going to have to go over to the other farm one day and look at the old Allis Chalmers Gleaner combine sitting in the one barn.
The more I think about it the header may have been on the left side,
as it seems like when I was sitting on the bench bagging oats, my back was to the tractor with the pickup and apron on my right,
which would have been the machines left and the chute to push the bags off was on my left or the machines right.
I never ran the tractor when we used that combine I had the dubious pleasure of filling and tying the bags.

 

[RickB]

I barely missed that chore.

Edit: Avoided. I am certain I would not miss it.

 

[David Wayne]

We have a Wood Bros corn picker that is left hand

 

[52wej]

I used a rollover plow for years on our farm in Va. Is great for hillside terraces. Still have an old one that may get used once a year for a garden. They leave a nice finished job without the dead furrows.

And yes the old gleaner pull types were left handed. I spent too many hours looking over the left shoulder at one! W Jones

 

[zag03]

I have a John Deere 3 Bottom roll over plow. Does anyone know where to get a replacement for a left hand mold board.

 

[Big Barn]

Roll over plows were all we used on the farm.

We had a Ransomes with mechanical trip, a three bottom Massey Ferguson and a four bottom John Deere with hydraulic rollover.

 

[denchen]

Reversible ploughs [roll over plows] were common on the small farms around here many years ago. Single furrow [bottoms] were regular but some farmers had double furrows [two bottoms]. I think they were popular because it was easier to get all parts of the small fields. A lot of the smaller farms were integrated into making larger farms, and bigger fields. I have noticed that over the last few years the farmers are going onto bigger reversible ploughs again, the biggest I`ve seen so far was a eight furrow, but the tractor pulling it was bigger than my Iseki.