Spoilt for Choice




I was spoilt for choice today, with a New Holland working to the left of me, mowing and hedging and a John Deere discing on the stubble to the right of me.

 

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He confirmed that the caterpillar track on his John Deere tractor gives better traction and causes less damage to the land but it does not perform so well on wet land or heavy land.




He explained that the tilling machine that the tractor was pulling was using a set of discs to grub up the stubble, then a set of rollers and finally a compactor at the back , which was levelling the land.




I noticed that such a long and heavy machine could  not use three point linkage for manouvring, instead it had hydraulic wheels that it could be raised on.



Often those who work in the fields are under time pressure to complete tasks.  So when this gentleman was kind enough to stop and tell me what he was doing and what epuipment he was using, I felt really blessed.  He explained to me about minimum till.  This means that when he has finished in the field it will be sown, with no ploughing in between.