"Plug-Proof" Chisel Plow

"Plug-Proof" Chisel Plow TILLAGE EUIPMENT Chisel Plows (9) 27-4-2 Jeff Sebasty, who farms near Akron, Indiana, with his brothers Eric and Kevin, was tired of continually plugging up their chisel plow. He solved the problem by rebuilding the 14-ft. plow. Using parts of an old tandem disk the brothers bought at a farm auction, they lengthened the chisel plow, increasing the spacing between the three chisel gangs to give crop residue more space to flow through the tool. They stripped the disk blades and mounts off the two lengths of 3 by 8-in. toolbar as well as the lift wheels on front of the chisel plow, and then mounted the chisel plow frame on back of the cultivator. Then they removed the middle gang of chisels from the three-gang machine and hung it on the back bar of the disk. On the front bar of the old disk, they mounted nine spring-loaded coulters they salvaged from some old John Deere and Oliver moldboard plows. On the rear of the chisel plow, they added another section of toolbar. On this, they mounted a gang of six 12-in. cultivator sweeps to make a ridge divider. "With the coulters up front, the increased spacing between the chisel gangs, and the sweeps in back to level the field, it's almost a one-pass tillage tool," Sebasty says. He says the total cost of reworking the chisel plow was under $500. "That's if you don't count the time we had in it," he says. "We had to rework it several times before we got it right." He says the final tool is 19 ft. from front to back, not including the 8-ft. tongue on it. "With the wheels closer to the front than the back, it's fairly well-balanced and is easy to maneuver in the field," he says. "The best part is that with the increased length, trash flows right through and it hardly ever plugs." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jeff Sebasty, 2652 Clydesdale Dr., South Bend, Ind. 46628 (ph 574 272-9981).

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