How does one make row plowed fields?
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I have never tried it but I have seen where the person wet some corrugated cardboard and peeled off one side of the paper leaving just the corrugation to act as the plowed field. Russ
what crops are you thinking of growing with this type of tillage?
You can buy the corigated cardboard with just one side smooth and the other just corigation. Then spray it with glue and sprinkle on "dirt ground cover".
Or cover the area with joint compound and make the furrows with a mastic tool. The advantage of this method is you can make wavy lines to follow the sight like tractors do. When dry, spray with glue and add the dirt ground cover.
I believe one of the vendors like walthers sells "plowed fields" that are just cardboard as described above.
Paul Goodness
Originally Posted by wb47:
what crops are you thinking of growing with this type of tillage?
Nothing. Just fallow ground.
the old school way...a piece of "wide wale" corduroy fabric...
howard...
Unless you are planting over 10 acres, buy the sheets from Scenic Express
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There are different size furrows. Use the O-scale 1/4" furrows sheets. Click on the underlined phrase to link.
A well plowed field doesn't have the furrow detail you would think.
(4) bottom moldboard plow, the round disk (coulter) are used to cut corn stubble, trash, or sod so that the curve plow part can easily turn the soil. There are also trash hooks on top of the moldboard to add turning-down all unwanted material. Black tubes are double springs that allow the plow shear to buckel-back if it hits a rock. Reset only requires backing-up. Expensive parts to replace.
Nice job Mark! I like the way you added the "hills" with the wet cardboard.
-Glenn
