The "one-pass" accomplishes three tasks as it is pulled across the field. It serves as a disk, a field cultivator, and a drag. You can see the row of disks in front in the photo below which cut into the soil to break it up.
Behind the row of disks are several rows of cultivating shoes, which dig deeper into the soil to break it up some more.
The above photo shows the drag teeth apparatus which brings up the rear of the "one-pass", combing through the soil and leveling it off. The field which Husband used it on today will be planted into oats tomorrow. So tomorrow's lesson will be about the grain drill which plants the oats. Aren't you excited to be attending farm school??!And, of course, after each use, the "one-pass" receives a going-over by the official inspectors, Tux and Ollie......as you can see in the photo below. They check for safety problems and loose hydraulic hoses, loose connections, etc. How fortunate we are to have conscientious maintenance cats around this farm!!
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It's always nice to see someone planting something other than corn & beans in Iowa :) Maybe that happens more in your part of the state than in mine. Or maybe it happens more on dairy farms - not so many of those around here as there used to be. There's one guy that planted winter wheat here, and it's so "unusual" that the local paper did a whole big front page article about it. Of course it doesn't take much to make the front page of our paper ;) But it used to be the norm to plant wheat, not the exception.
Hi, "scf"......yes, we plant oats because of the livestock. Husband puts oats in cow and calf feed, and the straw gets used for bedding. Actually, we plant a mixture of oats and peas.....am going to post a photo of that today.
Thanks for the tutorial!
I look at your pix (which are beautiful) and do wonder what it would be like to look out the window of my house and not see another house. Last night we had an exquisite sunset - at least what we could see over the roofs across the street:(
caution,
Thank you for your kind words!
And isn't that the great thing about sunsets......they can be lovely anywhere!!
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