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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | I bought this v-plow at an auction today. I have been wanting something like this to cut some drainage swales on the end of some fields so they drain better.
What was it originally designed for? A guy there said it was for cutting off sprouts and small trees, but I don't think so as that would require you run over them first.
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West Central Wisconsin | Seems like I saw something like that for planting pine seedlings after a pulp harvest. Crew of people come behind and hand plant. Not sure because it was a distance away. Joe |
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Warburg, AB | Olivetroad needs his own sticky'd thread for all his auction purchases.... |
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Basin Wyoming | Looks like a ditcher to me. In irrigated country you use it to pull a ditch to run water out of. |
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Southern Colorado | richruss - 11/28/2015 16:35
Looks like a ditcher to me. In irrigated country you use it to pull a ditch to run water out of.
+1 it's a ditcher |
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Strathcona, mn | That's a ditcher. A much smaller version of the one I built last year.
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Central Ga | It is a firebreak plow. A scalping plow that is pulled ahead of a mechanical tree planter or a hand planting crew peels a much narrower strip than this plow. |
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West KY, Miss River County | Drainage plow, found many places in the bottoms along the Miss river. |
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North End I-15 | With the wings on the outside of the V it looks like it would throw dirt out a distance if pulled at a good pace.
Yeah , I know , puntuation needed . :<( |
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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | mac4440 - 11/28/2015 17:27
We were at the same auction.....
Well, I actually wasn't there, I was bidding online on the stuff there and also on a sale in Dubuque Iowa. I bought the two Unverferth crumblers and a bunch of little things to fill out the load.
I was the backup bidder on the ferris wheel - first time I ever saw one of them at auction! |
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Kingdom of Callaway - Fulton, Mo 65251 | 1156versatile - 11/28/2015 17:47
That's a ditcher. A much smaller version of the one I built last year.
Do you have any more pictures of yours? Are you using it for permanent ditches or just shallow ones to dry out the fields faster and then fill them? |
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Western Nebraska | Ditcher for making irrigation canals in my part of the world
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Colorado | I wish I didn’t know. It’s used to make irrigation ditches for poor souls like below to set tubes out of.
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| Wow, that looks like a nightmare. What is the water source when you are irrigating that way ? |
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Colorado | Wells or captured mountain runoff in this area. |
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Moreauville LA | 1156versatile - 11/28/2015 17:47
That's a ditcher. A much smaller version of the one I built last year.
High tech weight box. |
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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | That is just a three point V Ditcher. The cylinder adjusts the pitch, so you can get a flatter ditch, or if a supply ditch and you have the grade you can make more of a V to narrow it up. The little 'wings' on the ends of the V flatten out the banks, and sort of pack them a little, more important if your using siphon tubes as above. We pull lots of ditches around here, but can't remember ever seeing anyone use siphon tubes in the last 20 years, all the row crops are sprinkler irrigated so we just pull gravity ditches for field crops, grain, hay, etc and border flood them.
That one is pretty small, a larger pull type like a Yonkers and Johnson can pull a ditch deep enough you can put 10-15 second feet down them. Pull types are preferred as until recently it is hard to have a 3 pt. big enough, an old D6 with steel tracks is just right for pulling ditches. 3 pt. work fine for small ditches though, would work okay for surface drains I'd think, other than they are designed to make a berm on each side as the intended purpose requires as much of the ditch above the field grade as possible.
http://www.swecoproducts.com/v-ditcher/ |
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What was this v-plow designed for?
