The Hydraulic Reversible Plough is a precision instrument, and achieving the perfect seedbed requires moving beyond basic depth settings. Different soil types—from heavy, sticky clay to light, free-flowing sand—demand advanced adjustments to the plough's geometry to ensure efficient soil inversion, minimize fuel consumption, and protect the soil structure.

Mastering these fine-tuning adjustments is the mark of a true tillage expert.

1. Heavy Clay and Wet Soils: The Slatted Mouldboard Advantage

Heavy clay soil is the toughest test for any plough. When wet, it smears and sticks, requiring maximum force; when dry, it comes up in hard, large clods.

• Adjustment: Lateral Leveling (Pitch)

  • Goal: Maximize the crumbling effect and minimize smearing.

  • Action: For very sticky, heavy clay, slightly increase the rearward pitch (shorten the top link slightly). This forces the mouldboard to lift and shatter the soil slice more aggressively before turning it over.

• The Component Key: If using a plough with interchangeable mouldboards, switch to slatted mouldboards. The gaps reduce the surface area contact, cutting down friction and allowing sticky clay to break away cleanly, unlike solid boards which can smear or clog.

• Implement Feature: Ploughs like the Shakti High Tech Mount are built to handle the high stress caused by these dense soils.

2. Light Sandy and Dry Soils: Stability and Burial

Sandy soil offers little resistance, making deep penetration easy, but it often struggles to hold a clean furrow wall, and surface trash doesn't invert cleanly.

• Adjustment: Front Furrow Width (FFW)

  • Goal: Ensure a stable pull line and full burial.

  • Action: Consider slightly widening the FFW to provide the tractor with a more stable run in the loose furrow bottom. The increased soil flow helps to secure the burial of light surface residue, which otherwise might float back up.

• Adjustment: Skimmer Depth

  • Goal: Guarantee 100% burial of light surface trash.

  • Action: Ensure the skimmers are set correctly—working shallow (2-5 cm) and close to the disc coulter—to cut and push the top layer of dry trash into the furrow before the main mouldboard turns the large soil slice on top of it.

• Tractor Speed: In very dry sand, reducing the forward speed may be necessary to prevent the loose soil from flowing around the mouldboard, which results in incomplete inversion.

3. Medium Loam and Trashy Soils: Clearance and Consistency

Loam is the easiest soil, but the presence of high-volume residue (stubble, stalks) can cause significant blockages.

• Adjustment: Inter-body and Under-frame Clearance

  • Goal: Prevent choking and maintain flow.

  • Action: This is a fixed feature of the plough design. When choosing an implement for trashy fields, you must ensure it has high under-frame clearance and wide inter-body spacing. If you have a variable width plough, narrowing the furrow width slightly can sometimes create tighter, cleaner soil inversion that manages trash better.

• Wear Parts: Ensure the plough shares are sharp and unworn. A dull share will drag and push residue, leading to blockages, whereas a sharp one will slice the soil and residue cleanly.

Mastering these advanced adjustments allows your hydraulic reversible plough to perform efficiently and consistently across every meter of your diverse farmland, converting power into perfect soil structure, regardless of the challenges beneath the surface. .