Mouldboards shown in this section are universal only. For brand-specific mouldboards, please refer to the corresponding brand section. Semi-finished mouldboards are also available, manufactured in BORODUR boron steel but without heat treatment, allowing holes to be drilled where required.
Mouldboards for ploughs:
Bellota manufactures mouldboards adaptable to the main European plough manufacturers and also vintage or universal mouldboards.
The fixed mouldboard plough only has the right-hand side, such as model 1781, but the most common today is the reversible mouldboard plough.
Characteristics of Bellota mouldboards
There are different mouldboard models with different types of steel, but we can highlight the following:
- Boron steel mouldboard, BORODUR exclusive to Bellota. These mouldboards are manufactured with a special Bellota steel formulation which, together with its production process, achieves great performance.
- SEMI mouldboards: these mouldboards are manufactured with BORODUR boron steel, but are unhardened and have no holes. The mouldboard is not hardened to facilitate drilling holes where necessary. This option is the best when you have a vintage plough and cannot find its replacement part.
- Triplex steel mouldboard: certain mouldboard models are manufactured with triplex steel, that is, a steel with three layers, where the outer layers are highly wear-resistant, whilst the middle one maintains high plasticity and toughness.
Importance of the mouldboard
The mouldboard is the most important component of the mouldboard plough because it determines what type of tillage and soil turning the plough will perform. The following types of mouldboards exist:
- Helical mouldboard: the soil strip is accompanied during turning with a gentle action, which produces large clods that remain joined in the turned soil strip.
- Cylindrical mouldboard: it is much more aggressive, pulverising the soil strip it turns, mixing the clods with fine soil.
- Universal or American mouldboard: performs intermediate work, with a cloddy tillage base and a surface layer of small clods and fine soil.
- Slatted or strip mouldboard: the soil is released with higher quality, therefore recommended for very wet soils.
