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A few years ago there was a tractor pull held in Clark County, Ohio. After all the " big boys " had pulled all they could, a local man brought out his Case steam tractor (IIRC 26 hp) and hooked it up to the sled.
First, hoots of laughter.
Second, dead silence as he began to pull.
Finally amazement when he pulled the sled further than anyone.
 
A ripper will take care of compactionI
I have not seen a field deep plowed in over 40-50 years in my area. It seems that method brings up decades of weed seeds in addition to erosion issues. I can attest to that from experience on our camps food plot fields where even discing for a new crop creates more weeds than frost seeding or broadcasting into an established crop.
 
My current avatar photo is a view from the cab of that tractors wheeled counterpart. Quite a step up from the old box car Case Magnums. Tillage time has been cut in half pulling a 22 foot disc at 7 to 10 miles per hour.

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Does your GPS move you over 22' on the turns? makes for the strips? I remember in the old days to plow a straight line you picked a tree or power pole on the horizon.
 
Does your GPS move you over 22' on the turns? makes for the strips? I remember in the old days to plow a straight line you picked a tree or power pole on the horizon.

I still have to pick up and turn on the end, but after setting an A-B line it'll let me skip passes like that. Gets me closer to the headlands before lifting and I don't downshift. Anyone riding for the first time tend to squirm a little when you're still going 9 mph with only 30 feet of field left in front of you and then suddenly turn, lol. I can't emphasize efficiency enough. Before we'd be lucky to get an 80 worked in a day. Last year with this I did 158 acres in ~9 hours. Well, call it 10; I did stop for lunch.
 
I still have to pick up and turn on the end, but after setting an A-B line it'll let me skip passes like that. Gets me closer to the headlands before lifting and I don't downshift. Anyone riding for the first time tend to squirm a little when you're still going 9 mph with only 30 feet of field left in front of you and then suddenly turn, lol. I can't emphasize efficiency enough. Before we'd be lucky to get an 80 worked in a day. Last year with this I did 158 acres in ~9 hours. Well, call it 10; I did stop for lunch.
I can relate to some of this. When I was married, I would help my in-laws with field work. Discing corn stalks was a slow process. 1066 with a 14’ disc would take me a day and a half to do an 80 acre field.
 
I started driving a tractor when I was 4 years old while Dad and Grandpa picked corn by hand and I guided the tractor down the rows of corn. I could not reach the pedals so had to slide off the seat to stop at the end of the field, Dad would turn me around and get me started back across the field. I had the speed set and all I had to do was guide it down the rows. As I got older my duties increased to plowing and mowing all of which was done with an 8N Ford tractor, or at least an early Ford tractor. In later years I made money plowing gardens for people in town. Never set a price for doing a garden, just tell them give what thought it was worth, made good money for a kid, but Dad made me buy my own gas. I grew up knowing that there was a cost, nothing was ever free. Grew up in a small community area and worked for everything. By the way that was in rural Missouri and I still live in that area.
 
I started driving a tractor when I was 4 years old while Dad and Grandpa picked corn by hand and I guided the tractor down the rows of corn. I could not reach the pedals so had to slide off the seat to stop at the end of the field, Dad would turn me around and get me started back across the field. I had the speed set and all I had to do was guide it down the rows. As I got older my duties increased to plowing and mowing all of which was done with an 8N Ford tractor, or at least an early Ford tractor. In later years I made money plowing gardens for people in town. Never set a price for doing a garden, just tell them give what thought it was worth, made good money for a kid, but Dad made me buy my own gas. I grew up knowing that there was a cost, nothing was ever free. Grew up in a small community area and worked for everything. By the way that was in rural Missouri and I still live in that area.
I can easily identify with this but I was about six. Still had to slide off the seat to hit the clutch, brake. Tractor was a 9N and had running boards. Later, as I got older, maybe 8, I was on that Ford with a two bottom disk plow with worn disks. Would cut maybe 20-22" at a time. Would take me nigh on 5 days to plow our nine acre hay field as it was a second gear pull all the way. I still like the way that turned over sod smelled.
 
What is the crop? How many acres? It's got to be a bunch, just by the size of the tractor.
Pneumatic tires compact the soil. Tracks do not
Thats because of the smaller print, and the dynamics of bouncing on rough ground worsens the situation. The contract loggers had the option using either one but often chose rubber tire log skidders because they were faster.
Mort
 
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Planting Whitetail Institute Clover on 2 acres for our resident Whitetails and Wild Turkey. This was two years ago, helping a Good Friend establish viable habitat for a long neglected property he acquired. Took me a while to acclimate to a bigger tractor, but it turned out great.

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This, however was best left to more experienced operators.
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