The Field, Part 2 - Ploughing and Harrowing

With the tree chopped down, that left us with a tree stump to move and the area to level out.

After fruitless hours of hard digging and root cutting and broken chains whilst trying to pull the stump out, the real farmer came up with a suggestion. Why not wait until he was passing in his digger and he'd whip the stump out in a jiffy.

It pays to have friends with equipment, within a few weeks the tree root was up, over 40 tons of soil and 20 cubic meters of cow muck had been added and the area was more or less levelled.

So, suddenly we had a big flat area ready for the next phase. Preparing the soil.



As you can see from the videos, the first efforts of Ploughing and Harrowing were not straight forward, the ground was far from flat and also quite soft in places. The tractor ended up at worrying angles all too often and the large quantities of fresh cow muck we're more inclined to build up on the plough and harrow than be broken up into bits.



By the end of these first attempts, things looked somewhat better, the area was close to acceptbly level and looked something like a prepared field.