A Terminology Question

[DanielW]

Wait... don't you mean... "plough" or "ploughs"???

I'll agree with that. In most of the US, 'plow' is both the noun and verb. But here in Canada and the rest of the English-speaking world, 'plough' is the noun, and 'plow' is the verb.

i.e: You use your 'plough' to 'plow'.

 

[JohnRowehl]

I'll agree with that. In most of the US, 'plow' is both the noun and verb. But here in Canada and the rest of the English-speaking world, 'plough' is the noun, and 'plow' is the verb.

i.e: You use your 'plough' to 'plow'.

So in Canada, would the green tillage tool in the original post photo be a “plough” or “ploughs”?

 

[DanielW]

So in Canada, would the green tillage tool in the original post photo be a “plough” or “ploughs”?

It'd be a 'plough'. I've never heard it pluralized. Mind you, there are so many regional variations with equipment terminology, there might be somewhere where it's common to say 'plows/'ploughs'. I've just never heard it.

 

[JohnRowehl]

It'd be a 'plough'. I've never heard it pluralized. Mind you, there are so many regional variations with equipment terminology, there might be somewhere where it's common to say 'plows/'ploughs'. I've just never heard it.

Use of the plural form is fairly common in the area I live in.

I still haven’t gotten used to it. When I am asked if I am going to bring my “plows” (as in plow day), my first impulse is to say; “no, just the X one.”

 

[JohnRowehl]

Is this my “plow” or my “plows”?

A respondent on a different forum made an analogy to cultivator vs cultivators. Do you hook up (or mount) the cultivator or cultivators?

 

[Scott 730]

A respondent on a different forum made an analogy to cultivator vs cultivators. Do you hook up (or mount) the cultivator or cultivators?

You would mount "a" cultivator. Singular. There is only 1 of them.

 

[rrlund]

Now that you mention it, I do remember a mounted cultivator being referred to as a "set of cultivators". It's been a while though.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Now that you mention it, I do remember a mounted cultivator being referred to as a "set of cultivators". It's been a while though.

I'm 51. When I was 10 (or maybe a little younger), there was an old-timer in his eighties who called anything with more than one bottom "a set of plows". I suppose like many of his era around here, he started plowing on a two-way, one bottom sulky plow behind a team of horses. I've also heard "set of cultivators" but only referring to the kind that mounted on the front of a tractor. If it was 3-point mounted, like my grandfather's Ferguson, it was simply "a cultivator".

 

[Timmycornpicker]

The thing is the only time coulters are necessary is in unchopped corn stalks. And corn stalks are rarely dry enough for the coulters to cut them.

I haven't plowed in awhile (the JD 2700 is along the back shed wall where it's been since 2020) but I always felt the coulters gave me a nicer furrow wall and a better roll in heavy sod by slicing off the roots ahead of the share and shin.

 

[Ray,IN]

Now that you mention it, I do remember a mounted cultivator being referred to as a "set of cultivators". It's been a while though.

My MF165 had a "set of cultivators. There was one mounted mid-tractor on a 4" horizontal post on each side of the tractor, then one 3-pt mount. Combined they cultivated 4 rows of corn with one pass. It was an odd arrangement, the mid-mount were hyd, operated, and moved independently of the 3-pt hitch.
I tried to sell them for years, finally loaded the mid-mounts up and took them to the junk yard. I kept the 3-pt one for some reason.