can a landrover tow a plough
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thats spooky Im literally looking on trade me as we speak. Yes i will be buying out there. what sort of mileage should I be concerned about ? Are you a kiwi by any chance?
If you go for ex army stage 1, most have been will looked after like this for example Land Rover Series 3 1983 for sale - TradeMe.co.nz - New Zealand
The main problems are going to be lack of 3 point hitch, lack of diff lock on the rear and tyres too small meaning as soon as you drop into the furrow, it will ground out. The earlier youtube vid is an ancient plough of some kind, which is doing a rubbish job! You need to be inverting at least 12" of soil to make ploughing worthwhile, otherwise you may as well min-till it. After ploughing you'd typically power harrow it, and for that you'd need a PTO.
For 3-4 acres I doubt its probably more cost effective to get a contractor to plough/till, but for such a small area he'd need to be doing another job in the neighbourhood to make it worth his while coming.
If its sheep farming, then yes you can get by without a tractor. Anything else and it tends to be you'd have at least 1 tractor on a smallholding. But there's so many jobs that a tractor easily does on land where you'd be looking at bodges or innovations, or just loads of hassle, with a LR. For example, baling - contractor comes, leaves the bales in the field, tractor with a bale spike on 3 point hitch can load them onto a trailer. LR can't. Spraying - easy to find a tractor mounted sprayer, you'll be fannying around for ages on the LR. Muck scraping - easy with small tractor, complete pain (lack of maneouvrability) with a LR in a shed, etc.
For 3-4 acres I doubt its probably more cost effective to get a contractor to plough/till, but for such a small area he'd need to be doing another job in the neighbourhood to make it worth his while coming.
If its sheep farming, then yes you can get by without a tractor. Anything else and it tends to be you'd have at least 1 tractor on a smallholding. But there's so many jobs that a tractor easily does on land where you'd be looking at bodges or innovations, or just loads of hassle, with a LR. For example, baling - contractor comes, leaves the bales in the field, tractor with a bale spike on 3 point hitch can load them onto a trailer. LR can't. Spraying - easy to find a tractor mounted sprayer, you'll be fannying around for ages on the LR. Muck scraping - easy with small tractor, complete pain (lack of maneouvrability) with a LR in a shed, etc.
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Nah Baler comes, leave bales in field, we pick bales up and put them on trailer, job done
Nah Baler comes, leave bales in field, we pick bales up and put them on trailer, job done
Yep, that's exactly what I said - although most people would use a loader tractor or telehandler.
Landrover will pull a horse drawn type of plough , anything else you need a 3 point lift , they will drag harrows, rakes , turners, seeders, toppers etc but really you need to think unimog , but then that will cost you more than a massey and a landrover combined , so better to go the tractor and landrover route , and use the vehicle that most suits what you want to do. JMHO
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Ploughing takes a lot of power and requires a 3 point linkage or other way to level the plough.For small plots a walk behind garden tractor with a rotovator is very good.Far easier to learn than ploughing too.Best of luck with your agricultural activities.The LR will come in for loads of other uses.
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An old Fergie or MF for the ground work and either a 90/110 (pre Defender) for your transport. Combined they would be cheaper than a more modern Defender.
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Yeah,very good actually that should have read 3 to 4 acres not 3\4,,
ploughing needs more ground clearance than landy has
plus most ploughs lift on the hydraulic arms that tractors have and landys dont
plenty of power for a small (2 furrow) plough but other factors would make it impractical.
suggest a few visits to working farms/smallholdings to see how tis done.
plus most ploughs lift on the hydraulic arms that tractors have and landys dont
plenty of power for a small (2 furrow) plough but other factors would make it impractical.
suggest a few visits to working farms/smallholdings to see how tis done.
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