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 | Barneyhunts
Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8 Springville, Pennsylvania 
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2007-03-04 140192
I own a Kubota B7800 (30 Hp compact) and am thinking of buying a 12" - 2 bottom moldboard plow to work on foodplots. The manual specifies this as the largest plow to use with this tractor. Does anyone have any experience plowing with this tractor?
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 | earthwrks
Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3853 Home Office in Flat Rock, Michigan 
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2007-03-11 140370
I have a 33 hp blue and have plowed with an old JD 2-bottom (bigger than 12"??)in hard clay with no problems. It's 4x4 with R-4's. Ag's would probably be better IMHO. ....
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 | Art White
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6898 Waterville New York
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2007-03-11 140371
For food plots we have customers using there tillers with good success. A lot does depend on what you are working with for soil but you should be in low range and about 2/3rds throttle. Your traction here is going to be key so ballasting should be considered. To plow with a loader on would add a fair amount of weight to the front to offset the plows weight and to overcome the down draft.
Tires have already been mentioned as to the best traction but a little secret that I found on sod that is wet is not to drive over it more then once. That way you have the advantage of the root struture to hold the soil from being the mud that it is. ....
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| Barneyhunts
Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8 Springville, Pennsylvania
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2007-03-12 140408
Thanks for sharing your experience.:)
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| Barneyhunts
Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8 Springville, Pennsylvania
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2007-03-12 140409
Art,
Thanks for your reply. I also own a bx2200 for which I have a Woods tiller (32"). I use it in my garden and it works really well now that I've hauled rock out for several years. The fields I intend to work are rocky so I'm apprehensive about using a tiller. My neighbor had planted this section for several years using plow & harrow, but his equipment is much larger than mine.
Thanks again for your input.:-) ....
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| Art White
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6898 Waterville New York
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2007-03-13 140424
Set the tiller shallow so it only tills about four inches deep. Then hit it again later or on a dry day and the dirt should seperate out nicely from the roots holding back the growth if you till it a couple of times like this to dry out the old plants roots. ....
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| loganWildman
Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 27 Hoosier State
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2007-03-19 140555
I use to have a NH TC35 with R4's and plowed gardens in the spring with a 2-16 for several years, so I don't see why a 30hp would have problems with a 2-12 ....
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| shadowcaster
Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2 west virginia
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2007-03-21 140617
I ahve a 4wd l3000 32 HP and I am pulling 14" 2 bottom plows and I generaly can pull them in 2wd in all conditions no problem. Sometimes I have to use 4wd if I am breaking new ground. I used to have a b7300 and it did ok with 1-12" bottom so I think yours will do fine. ....
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