Plough

Harvesting crops

Seeding fields

Preparing seedbeds

Irrigating soil

By manual labor

Using ropes and pulleys

Fully mounted on the tractor hydraulic system

Attached to animal-drawn carts

They have left-handed mouldboards.

They are rarely used in modern agriculture.

They are only semi-mounted.

They produce a very level finish and can plough up and down in the same furrow.

United States

Great Britain

China

Australia

Lifts and turns the furrow slice

Attaches the plough body to the frame

Cuts the bottom of the furrow slice

Controls the depth of ploughing

Welded directly to the plough frame

Bolted to legs, which are then bolted to the plough frame

Attached using adhesive

Tied with ropes

The type of tractor used

The availability of spare parts

The type of soil and tractor size

The number of fields to be ploughed

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Frog

Mouldboard

Coulter

Conventional plough

Disc plough

Reversible plough

None of the above

General-purpose ploughs are only used for shallow ploughing

Digger type ploughs have reversible mouldboards.

General-purpose ploughs are useful for regular ploughing work, while digger type ploughs are used for deep ploughing, particularly for root crops.

Digger type ploughs are only suitable for rocky soil.