Moldboard Plowing - John Deere 4320 & 7600

[@stanhensley3082]

If you young men only knew how this brings back soooo many memories to old beat up retired farmer. I started with B John Deere and a 2 bottom plow.Many cold days sitting out in the open.Ended my farming days with a 4240 and a 5 bottom.Wow heat and air.Have to admit watching this brings a few tears.Once a farmer always a farmer.Bet that dirt smells good!Thanks for the memories.Love that drone.

[@HowFarmsWork]

I’m glad you enjoy!

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

Yep! Many years ago, ... Farmed 325A, most plowed every year, 3-16 plow, at 3.5mph max. Farm tractors were 45 hp, max. Covered 20A per day at the outside, day after day, day after day... I know the JD B, pulling those two bottom plows. We were on the upside with 3-16 plow, but some locals had two bottom plows.

[@fredf3391]

Stan Hensley did you send the grease gun

[@Sgt_Kilborn]

My dad and I do a little moldboard plowing at tractor shows and for his garden every fall. 3 bottom John Deere hydraulic trailer plow and a 1966 Farmall 706. I've never been a farmer but I'm a country boy who can appreciate the small sliver of the whole farming experience I'm getting whenever I drop the old JD into the hard clay in southern Illinois.

[@superliner101hobbyfarming]

@@rightsideofthegrass8114 yep, I'm still using a 3-16 plow

[@n.elliottnoorlun8304]

Back in the 1960's, moldboard plowing like this was THE ONLY way to prepare our farm for seeding the next Spring. I just LOVED to ride with our father that "black gold" soil turn over as we went along. Dad used to plow in the Fall to allow plant material to rot "down under" over the Winter. I'm sure chisel plowing is the way of today, but, as a kid, I really was impressed with the perfect seed bed that standard plowing helped to create. Thanks for the memories, Ryan! Sure was nice of you to help out that neighbor ;o)

[@canvids1]

N. Elliott Noorlun it is the same with me but I go back a bit farther to 40's and 50's with the same type and time of plowing the land. I also remember one way big disk plows but can't remember now when and why they used them. As well where are all the seagulls chasing the plows for the worms LOL.

[@n.elliottnoorlun8304]

Thanks, Wayne, for stopping by. Our farm was in Minnesota, so there would never have been any seagulls chasing our plow for worms ;o) Dad, like his farmer father before him, had been raised farming in northern Minnesota, but started on our farm in 1945 or so. Dad had 120 acres (and rented 120) in south central Minnesota near a tiny village called, Kiester.

[@robertreznik9330]

The oneways caused the dust bowl. They pulled with small hp and killed all the weeds and left the plains to dust storms. The rain ran off and the crops failed. Sweeps and herbicides changed all the farmland to produce again even with great past erosion of soil.

[@n.elliottnoorlun8304]

Robert Reznik. Thankfully we were blessed in southern Minnesota with over 20 years of moldboard plowing and had no adverse reactions from it. Dad took good care of our soil needs and I was proud of him for being a good steward of the land.

[@robertreznik9330]

Your land is a glacial deposited soil. Ours is volcanic clay loess that blew in from Eastern New Mexico during the ice age. It is very mineral rich and like many beautiful things is fragile.

[@markallen3293]

Thank you for the memories. I used to do that back in the 60's-70's with my dad with a 1750 Oliver ( I think) pulling a 4 bottom plow. We usually did it in the fall, as much as we could before the snow. We also disc a lot and pulled a drag to break down the soil. I spent many a day on those tractors. I remember when dad bought a tractor with a cab and a radio. We thought we were in heaven. Does anyone remember those all weather radios that were mounted on the tractor fenders? Thanks again for the memories buddy, be safe.

[@jancomalan9989]

Nothing smell as good as freshley plowed soil

[@rodneyerdmann1545]

I think I could see a smile on that old 4320!!!

[@brianhrobsky9200]

I spent many days moldboard plowing. Great times!!!! Miss it alot

[@rickyarger1169]

Back in my days of plowing I always enjoyed the smell of fresh turned soil

[@charlesw7012]

You really have it made now days, I was born & raised on a farm in Ohio, 1947, My dad & I farmed about 450 acres. We had a John Deere 50, & a wc A.C.Farming has sure changed since the 50'es .Wish I could turn back the time.God Bless & keep up the good work.

[@jrbpa5775]

Good memories, International 706 pulling 5/14’s over 700 acres, open station tractor. I could hear the tractor roaring in my sleep. Lol. Thx for the video!!!

[@donaldangus1138]

Great video, I started on a John Deere 1944 A with two bottom plow about 1955 then moved up to bigger tractors as Dad traded up. Last one was a turbocharged 4230 and 5 bottoms.

[@DefaultName-yl2jw]

Thank god we've come up with better ways these days. We have a few farms where we still fight with dead furrows from years of moldboards.

[@bobsmith1814]

I love it. Enjoyed watching my grandfather moldboard plow his fields every spring and fall.

[@bluemtnsman]

Ah, YES!! Reach back into my memory back to remember spending days at a time pulling a five gang moldboard plow. Great video and a lucid explanation of the two types of plows.

[@joeclarkson3642]

It is good to see you helping a neighbor/friend out again

[@EtzEchad]

I've been playing Farming Simulator 19 recently, and plowing is probably the biggest job. I thought of buying a 500 HP tractor just to do it, but I realized that you really only have to plow a field once when you first buy it. (I still bought the tractor, but I use it for tilling. That is much faster than plowing at any power level.) It was interesting to see a real plow in action. Thanks.

[@jeffolimpaito4651]

Hi Ryan. I really enjoy your videos. This one especially. I grew up on a small vegetable farm here in NJ, and when I was a little kid, I would walk behind the tractor while dad plowed. I'd walk up and down the rows for hours, just to get a ride back on the tractor! Every time I see freshly plowed ground, it brings me back. I really do miss farming. So, thanks for posting these vids, they are very well done. If I can't be on the farm, at least I can keep up with yours!

[@thedonleroy]

That brings back memories. We haven't had a plow on the farm in 20 years.

[@bensnyder719]

Nice video Ryan. I don't know why people would dislike your videos.

[@ontariocashcropfarmer4955]

Nice video Ryan like seeing the old iron and the new iron getting the job done 👍

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Nice video Ryan!!!! Kinda unusual to see a Mol board being used, and here you've got two going at the same time. Cool!!!!

[@HowFarmsWork]

Thanks for watching Cassius!

[@MatthewHoag77]

Now that's something I'd never expect to see on your channel. It does bring back a lot of memories from my grandparents' farms, and there was a certain method to doing it that I managed to pick up from watching and occasionally helping do it. Ryan F. has the right idea with the ear protection. It's nice that you didn't have to bring out the bigger tractors to help with this job, although seeing them with larger plows would have been impressive.

[@tommyhumkey1044]

Boy that brought back some good memories

[@dalehauser2996]

A freshly plowed field is pretty. We used to plow at night and it was amazing at the sparks that would fly when hitting rocks.

[@jamisgood21]

I don't believe I've ever seen a moldboard on your farm! Cool. I use my little 2 bottom to prep my sweet corn patch.

[@watermanone7567]

Nice, I like the old school plowing. That is all I knew how to do when growing up. Thanks

[@johnhunter273]

Good looking dirt! Way to help a neighbor!

[@andreww.9939]

I always like the videos where you and Travis help out the other Ryan. Especially tillage and since this is something which y’all don’t do it’s fun to see it! Good video!

[@symonkarani1626]

Nice video. I love watching tractors plough.Greetings from Kenya

[@shawnfox8002]

Nice seeing them old plows getting used . Not many use them like they did 20 or 30 yrs ago

[@PAHerefords]

The 7600 sure did a good job on a five bottom! Four wheel drive sure helps

[@Farmall450]

PAHerefords I'd hope so! A 4020/806 can handle that.

[@farmlifesd5722]

We ran a 5 bottom just like that on our 4430. I don’t think that a 4020 could pull a 5 bottom!

[@PAHerefords]

So does a 560 gas, and an oliver 1850. Do it every year.

[@paulhansen774]

Took a quick lunch break from moldboard plowing myself...now I'm watching a video of someone else moldboard plowing

[@nickbeauchamp5348]

Another great video love seeing the equipment out finally our springs here!

[@rolltide20121]

In my neck of the woods we call that “breakn land” good video!

[@leol1682]

Enjoyed the video Ryan Plowing .yes it's bring memery on how old we are to day .

[@kevinwillis9126]

Cracking job guys and no GPS.. Thanks for sharing Ryan enjoyed that alot...

[@marks_sparks1]

John Deeres and a moldbord. Like it

[@clinthochrein888]

This brings back memories,. Excellent video!

[@canvids1]

I enjoy watching the old way plowing with the Moldboard plow as that is what I remember as a young lad on the farm. They do a great job! But something is missing Ryan where are all the hundreds of seagulls chasing the plows for the worms?

[@bryancovert9821]

Wayne Rogers , no worms ,all killed off by Monsanto chem.

[@towstrapstoiletseats7231]

Wayne Rogers ya no kidding

[@carmfarm5]

seagulls seem to be near water. Whenever we do field work near a lake there's a ton of them, when we're not by a lake you don't see them

[@lukestrawwalker]

We always had hundreds of white cattle egrets landing in the field behind the shredder when we were cutting stalks after harvest, or behind the disk or plow looking for grubs and bugs... they LOVED it and the darn things would take off RIGHT IN FRONT of the tractor and come in for a landing before the soil even hit the ground behind the disk most of the time!!! Never saw seagulls in a field until I went to Indiana and started helping with disking and land work there... even though we're only 60 miles from the coast, the seagulls stay on the beach down here... you never see them inland... Those cattle egrets, though... they'd gobble up bugs by the thousands... Later! OL J R :)

[@jerrypmoore6532]

No worms? That can't be good.

[@matth3w249]

Amazing video Ryan. Love seeing the moldboard plowing

[@Budd56]

Nothing better than plowing in the spring 👍👍

[@Rick-rx1tv]

Good drone shots of the tractors at work. I like seeing videos like this, tractors plowing, tilling, planting, and harvesting crop make me really satisfied and its like a zen moment for me. Thanks for the video Ryan. CHOW

[@adamkruskama8455]

Plowing is another tool in the toolbox. Depending if it’s highly erodible land it can be an issues. But with the right timing an application it has benefits. Like grazing a riparian area. If done correctly it works but done poorly it has huge impacts.

[@farmer046]

You guys up there have such dark beautiful soil

[@HowFarmsWork]

Bottom ground is usually very nutrient rich since occasional flooding deposits plenty of nutrients

[@hoophil]

Hi Ryan, great video! I love how you help your friend Ryan! It looked like Travis was going to catch Ryan! We have a triple bottom moldboard plow we have used behind our New Holland TC48DA for many years. Thanks for the explanation of the two types of plows. Personally I'd never heard of chisel plows until I saw you using them a couple years ago. Keep up the great work! Love all your videos!

[@thr8061]

Where we were in NE WI, no-till was not down very much. We did some chisel plowing, but due to our soil type, moldboard plowing was everyone's main method.

[@lukestrawwalker]

We have a 3 bottom Allis Chalmers moldboard plow for plowing under sod (reworking pasture) and I picked up a 3 bottom disk plow (huge single disk blades set at an angle instead of shares/bottoms like a moldboard). They work well for turning sod... When we row cropped, we farmed on beds, which is more of a southern thing-- seems everybody up north "flat plants" or plants on ground that has been disked flat or left flat without ridges or furrows in the middles. We farmed on beds because around here you have to get the crop up out of the water after heavy rains and planting on raised beds does that, as well as creating a deep wide furrow between the rows for the water to run into and down the length of the field and into the bar ditches we cut on the ends of the fields next to the turning rows to allow the water to run off to the main drainage ditches by the roadsides... Anyway, every fall we'd run the middlebuster, which is a plow with a "double sided" moldboard the cuts from the middle using a "buster point" which bolts on like a share, and then has a left and right wing behind it like a moldboard, so it throws the soil to the left and the right at the same time. You run the plow bottoms under last year's rows, so it plows out the rootballs and stubble and buries the residue, building a new bed between each middlebuster point. This helps break the soil up and bury the residue and kill any perennial weeds that might have come up in the row, as well as killing the roots of the crop (corn and soybeans naturally die as they mature, but cotton and grain sorghum will continue to grow, even after being shredded off with a rotary cutter, all the way up until killing frost, and you don't want it doing that because it provides an overwintering food source for pest insects, making them worse the following year... so as soon as we finished combining grain or picking cotton, within a few days to a week we'd be running a shredder (sometimes right behind the combine or cotton picker, quick as possible!) to shred off the stalks and chop up the residue some. We learned to leave cotton stubble lay for about a week to dry out after it was shredded-- this would destroy bollworm or boll weevil eggs and larvae and adults that would overwinter in the fresh green buried residue if it didn't dry out. It was basically creating a "food pantry" for the insects for the winter... A week in the blazing hot late summer Texas sun would completely dessicate and fry any remaining immature cotton bolls or squares and the rest of the stalks and leaves, and turn it all a completely dry and crispy brown. Then we'd follow that by running the disk across the field as deep as we could pull it, to knock down the beds, loosen up and cut most of the roots of the crop stubble, and help chop up and bury the stalks and residue from the previous crop... We did this on cotton, grain sorghum, and corn stubble alike. Soybeans of course, there's nothing left to shred down with the rotary mower after harvest, so we'd let it dry out well and then disk the bean stubble to loosen the soil and knock down the beds. Then we followed up with the middlebuster, which of course basically "inverted" the rows like a moldboard plow, building a new bed on the past year's row middle furrow, and creating new furrows where the row had been this year... Let the clods dry out for a week or so, hopefully get some rain to mellow things out, then we'd run the row disk, or "hipper" as they're called, through the field... the row disk or hipper has gangs of disk blades, usually 2 disk blades with a pair of bearings in an angled housing between them, although older row disks used to have 3 blades with 2 bearings straddling a center blade... the hipper has a pair of blades to run on either side of the new bed, with one blade running *just* to the left or right of the center of the furrow, and the other blade running about 8-10 inches away from it up the side of the bed... these disk blades were angled to cut into the soil in the furrow and throw it up onto the bed, making the bed taller and looser. Usually there were "ripping shanks" running down the tops of the beds to break up clods and loosen the soil in/under the bed itself, with about a 6-8 inch cultivator sweep cutting under the bed, which also kills any weeds that may slip by. Since there are two gangs of disk blades running in each middle (except the outside middles on the end of the toolbar) they are staggered with one running in front of the other so they don't interfere with each other, and they throw the soil up onto the bed from both sides of the row... Then we'd be done til early spring... usually try to get into the field in late January or February and run the hipper again, to kill any sow thistles and verbena that came up during late winter, and loosen the soil a bit so it could start drying out for spring tillage... This would usually be followed up by knifing in liquid fertilizer down the center of the beds with a pull-type applicator, and then disking down preplant incorporated herbicides for the next crop, with another trip of the hipper to pull the beds back up for planting, usually pulling a roller behind the hipper to firm up and flatten out the beds so the planter had a nice, smooth surface to run on and the moisture could come up through the mellow soil easily to planting depth... (before we ran rollers, we usually pulled a drag harrow like yalls to knock any clods off the top of the beds and make it smooth and mellow for planting, but the rollers work better, like rolling baskets!) Course, we were looking for ways to eliminate trips, so some guys retired their middlebusters and went to stalk pullers, which uses a pair of angled blades with "paddles" on the back to keep them turning in the soil, which work exactly opposite the way disk openers on a planter or drill do-- the blades are MUCH larger and heavier, with HD bearings and axles, and run touching each other in a backwards "V" pattern... the stalks and roots enter between the front of the blades, they pinch together and rip the stalks and roots UP out of the ground, and throw them up in the air in a rooster-tail of soil and stubble behind the stalk puller as it runs through the field... then they'd just hip the field back up behind the stalk puller and the next spring, knife in fertilizer and run a hipper over it once with the rollers behind it and then plant... which is probably more like what I'd do now if I were still row cropping... We never owned a chisel plow-- they're practically unheard of here, but I've run them in Indiana and they do a good job. They're not much use farming on beds, though. We DID occasionally deep-rip or subsoil with a subsoiler to break hardpan up though... Later! OL J R :)

[@davidwatt7663]

Ploughing is so satisfying , yes that's how we spell it in the UK , when you do a good job it just gives you a complete fresh start. I don't see many reversible or two way ploughs in it he US Iwonder why. Real good quality video Guys Thank you .

[@Mad_Farmer912]

Several guys around me use roll over plows. I think the main reason their not as popular is the amount they weigh. Most guys I see use a 4 bottom roll over where with a semi mount plow they'll pull 5-6 bottoms. Each have their benefits roll over you have no dead furrow but stopping and turning around all the time. Semi mount pulling more bottoms and covering more ground in a pass Its a,toss up to me which would be faster it all comes down to preference.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Do yall have switch plows over there??? Deere came out with one years ago... basically the toolbar swings from one side to the other when you turn around, like a hydroswing mower... the moldboard bottoms are shaped like a snow shovel instead of the traditional right hand or left hand bottoms on a rollover plow... it has a share across the bottom edge and a wear shin on either side, and a moldboard in the middle... it's also got two landsides, 90 degrees apart. The bottoms pivot as the plow toolbar swings from one side to the other for the next pass, so it becomes a left hand bottom on one pass, and then a right hand bottom on the next pass-- the shin on one side leads on one pass and the other shin leads on the next pass, with the soil sweeping across the moldboard the opposite way with each switch... Later! OL J R :)

[@Mad_Farmer912]

luke strawwalker I've seen them in magazines but never seen one in my area. I think they are a little more popular in the southern states like Texas. In my area we have heavy clay soils and I have a feeling there not suited to well our conditions. But work better on the sandier soils in the south.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Yeah I've seen them at farm shows and picked up brochures on them because I was interested in how they work, but I've never seen one in our part of the world... Course we're on pool-table flat black gumbo clay soil but even in sandier areas like around Shiner I've never seen one, course that are is mostly cattle but there are a few guys growing corn... Later! OL J R :)

[@douglasmacarthur8775]

Great job of plowing ! For those that say ALL stalks should be buried.......BS ! Some visible stalks on top help prevents wind erosion and after a disking in spring they pulverize

[@ontarioagguy2769]

Nice to see you guys moulboarding we still molboard our wheat ground every year

[@patkelly7999]

Fantastic, its like we were there with you, great stuff Ryan:)

[@WorldsOkayestFarmer]

Great video I like watching plowing! That’s nice to see you helping a friend I have been helped a few times.

[@ReverseProof]

Very, very cool. Amazing drone footage! Fun to watch!

[@ryanorourke92]

Nice video! We do a lot of plowing up in southwestern Ontario.

[@RCcustom99]

Wish I had a job on a farm like this. Love the videos, keep up the good work.

[@nateamidon2370]

I love the new drone and the videos you make!

[@stevemondal.]

There is flat land up there, LOL. Thanks Ryan, and Travis and friend Ryan.

[@FarmerJohnKY]

It's nice to be back in the fields.

[@ontarioagguy2769]

Farmer John KY I SECOND THAT!!!!!!!!

[@andrewbusshardt4533]

Great video Ryan keep up the great videos!!! Can't wait for the next one. You and Travis have the best videos out there!!! Thanks alot for what u guys do!!!

[@HowFarmsWork]

Thanks for being a loyal follower!

[@fynbo1007]

Very beautiful picture, thank you for sharing your amazing video

[@ethantrout2407]

Great video! I have that same plow that the 7600 is on

[@mikep7810]

Great video. I just did a video of my dad moldboarding corn ground to bury the heavy stalk trash

[@lynnmoore2664]

Really great video Ryan! I really enjoyed the drone footage a lot!

[@williamneale4933]

come to the UK mate we have 1700 acres which is big in our country and plow every last one every year

[@dirtroaddee3192]

Great video, loved the drone shots👍

[@nielsdybro9759]

Love the video. Brings back memories from my teen years plowing my dads and uncles land, which took several weeks each fall. I noticed a number of corn stalks sticking up after the plowing. Is that because the stalks were not chopped before the land was tilled in the fall, or something not adjusted right? Keep up the good work of educating people who have little knowledge of how our food is produced and what it takes to make it happen.

[@DennysCountryLife]

Great work on the video Ryan! Your skills are notably awesome!

[@Shanenagle1234]

Great video! nice to see something different 👍

[@galicije83]

Great video Ryan.... For batter results You need plough with higher height and greater distance from furrows. This bigger ploughs will put all remains deep down on bottom of furrow. In this video we can see that some of remains are still on surface.... In Europe we used the most reversible ploughs or on American English plows. Its much batter tool for irregular fields like was your in this video then classic plougs/plows...

[@danp5154]

Love the 4320!

[@Northern_Farmer]

Awesome Video Ryan.... That ground looks like canola would grow great in it lol

[@diastemarex9697]

Love the drone video work

[@murt150]

We use to take the coulter off the plow when we were doing corn stalks.

[@michaelsylvester7272]

Great footage.

[@birdsnestfishing698]

This was awesome love seeing stuff like this hopefully more of this!

[@sneakysnake109]

You can sure hear the additional load it puts on the tractor.

[@nateoutdoors6092]

Do more of these videos!!!!

[@johnwarren8693]

I plowed many acres slow process out when done it looks really nice. You make think you have enough weight in the front to soon find out you don't 😂

[@ryanp6999]

Damn Ryan, the video quality is looking nice. Quality content!

[@anthonyberry1314]

I'm surprised you never do it in the states, everyone does it here in the UK

[@williamburnett6616]

Love plowing I have a 830 john Deere I pull a five bottom plow . I plow 72 and 45 field every two or three years to keep down black berries bushes. Be safe my friend.

[@tommyphillips3951]

We have not used a moldboard since I was a little guy about 20 yrs ago lol. We chisel plow here to.

[@scottbehr5690]

When I was a kid,we had a neighbor that pulled a 20 bottom plow behind a Steiger tractor.

[@prestonkerr4421]

It would be cool to see some more videos of Ryan’s farming operation eh?

[@Brian.N]

Great video,its a really clear video.

[@timhurkmans3788]

Right here in the Netherlands almost everyone plows their fields. The big disadvantage to it in my eyes is just how long it takes, it takes me about 1 and a half hour per acre

[@waylondunkin3175]

Good video Ryan

[@eooliebooger]

Nice job of Plowing

[@fredd8770]

Cool. You don’t see much plowing any more. This video takes you back to a different time when plowing was common

[@yester8039]

In europe plowing is common, what its weird to se here is chisel plowing

[@edvinvensryd3958]

Yester ye it’s right, here in Sweden we always plow and it’s pretty uncommon to not plow here

[@boomer9790]

it sure is nice to have, and be a good neighbor...

[@VBYT7740]

Over here in Ireland only mulboard plough never even seen a chizel plough in my life over here

[@tommyphillips3951]

The 7600 looks like it pulled thr 5 bottom good. That old 4320 was going so slow it would take a week of sundays get her done lol. Feels good to bd playing in the dirt again doesn't it?

[@noahschoenike2412]

That's so cool!

[@taylorjennings2218]

very cool video

[@jacobekstrandbabyface5753]

In sweden were I come from we plough each year and almost after every crop that we grow. Or at least me and my grandfather does that. The only crop we don't plough after I OSR (oil seed rape) also called canola. We just cultivate after a couple of times

[@sneakybots1052]

Cool video!

[@phillippeterman1051]

First time I’ve seen a plow used in 20 years.

[@richardwilkens4577]

Spent many hours ploughing with 4840 and 7 bottom plough

[@adamkruskama8455]

Do you guys use a disk harrow next? Here we use a Dixon harrow to level behind plowing.

[@TheSledhead3415]

I miss being on the farm i use to plow with a case 5140 maxim with a 5 bottom white. Disk with a john deer 8440 with a 32ft sunflower lot of till the farm was sold off.

[@newyorkfarmer146]

Hey Ryan it’s cool to see some moldboard plowing , not many do it anymore and no Offense to you guys but I didn’t think you guy knew how to use one of them cuz well there just to small for what you guys use them for , what size moldboards are on both sets of plows ?