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    Posted: 3 hours 25 minutes ago at 7:05am
Not color specific.

What tool have you guys had luck with for tall and or thick sod?

My big moldboard plow does ok, but there are fields where it’s not too handy. And honestly…..it could be better.

Glencoe soil saver is a no-go, it’s plugging.

My most recent small plow is an IH 400. That plow does a wonderful job and pulls easily…right up until it doesn’t, then it’s miserable. In heavy sod, it rides up and gets caught on the shank and from there is all downhill. It seems to me the colters are too big and too close to the moldboard, and also not much clearance under the frame. You get to a point where you’re only 3 inches deep, then to a point where it still scoops up grass and it’s all plugged up.

Just curious if anyone has good luck in such a case.
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As for the grass/sod/trash on the surface, try disking the field first. Or, mowing, baling a crop off the land first. As for coulter and plow adjustments, get an owners manual for that specific plow. Does the the plow have ‘coverboards’? Some call them ‘trash boards’. Proper ground speed can also affect the performance of a moldboard plow.
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I've never done this, or for that matter even seen it done, but in the old days, they would tie a length of #9 wire on a coulter or somewhere on the frame, and that dragging wire would fold over the tall brush so it didn't plug.
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Originally posted by Lars(wi) Lars(wi) wrote:

As for the grass/sod/trash on the surface, try disking the field first. Or, mowing, baling a crop off the land first. As for coulter and plow adjustments, get an owners manual for that specific plow. Does the the plow have ‘coverboards’? Some call them ‘trash boards’. Proper ground speed can also affect the performance of a moldboard plow.


There are two locations to mount the colters. Already in the farthest forward, won’t even fit in the rearward one. Makes me wonder if it’s the correct colters.

I’m doing the mowing and baling. Would sure love to skip that and save the time and fuel.

Nothing to do with coverboards, it doesn’t get that far and if it does it turns over fine.

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My friend used to have a pair of IH #720 plows; 5-16' & 6-16".  They would only plug in very heavy (and/or damp) cornstalks.  Sod plowing was a breeze.  FWIW.
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