New Do-It-Yourself Terrace-Building Plow

New Do-It-Yourself Terrace-Building Plow TILLAGE EUIPMENT Plows 5-3-30 If you're farming terraced land or would like to build your own terraces for less than a contractor would charge, you'll want to know about a new terracing plow from Amco Products. It's a heavy, hydraulically controlled disk that builds and shapes narrow-base terraces. It can replace expensive bulldozers and scrapers and permits you to build your own terraces with surveying help from your Soil Conservation Service technicians. A 165 to 220 hp tractor is needed to pull the 16 ft., 10 in. wide, 3200 lb. plow. It hitches to a Cat. III hitch. The 26 in. dia. notched disk blades are 1/4 in. thick. Two 4 in. by 16 in. hydraulic cylinders control tilt angle of the two gangs on-the-go ù from 18? down, to 43? up. Working under SCS specifications, the Amco terracing plow can build up to 1,200 ft. of terraces per hour. Basically, all the operator has to do is follow the surveyed SCS terrace line. By hydraulically changing the tilt angle of the gangs, terrace height is adjusted to SCS recommendations after a few passes. Weight of the tractor and plow ensures proper compaction. The terracing plow can also be used to re-shape old terraces, or to kill weeds while retaining the shape of existing terraces. Cost is expected to be about $5,000. "We have designed this tool to be a dependable work-horse for individual farmers, cooperatives or private groups," explains Mike Hodgson, sales manager for Amco. "We have considered the fact that the SCS pays only once for farmer's to build terraces, and our equipment must be an affordable investment. We think the cost-saving features of this new terracing plow will help the SCS promote terracing practices for effective erosion control." For more details, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Amoc Products, No. 1 Amco Drive, Yazoo City, Miss. 39194 (ph 601 746-4464).

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