spring plowing

kenbob

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This is a continuation of discussion about the cylinder on the plow in the 300a pics: I did go out and plow for the first time with my VAC and converted ford 101 1bottom plow. I also have a CA allis with snap couple plow. I believe the ford worked a little better as it rolled the sod a little more, but the plow was almost scoured by the time I was done. The allis was not. Tractor ran flawlessly. I had hoped to plow 6" deep in ground that was hard clay with 30 years of fescue sod on top. It would go that deep but wouldn't stay there. There were also small tree roots That may have caused it to go shallow. Last year when I made my first pass with my Allis plow I cut the TIme Warner cable. I personally dug the trench for the new cable with a ditching spade. I am sure I had that cable laid 8-10". But Sure enough I hit it again plowing. SO the plow must have gone deep some of the time. THe only thing I can figure is frost heave must have pushed it up. That is why I didn't send pics yesterday--no internet. Don't laugh at my lame guage wheel. It's main purpose is to hold the plow up when it is unhitched. 1 bottoms like to fall over. I did use it as a guage wheel of sorts. I had it set for 7 inches so I could see how deep I was plowing. Never saw it hit the ground but I wasn't looking when I hit the cable. It would be nice to find one of those Case guide wheels if I ever am able to plow deep enough to need it.
 
Finally have them I think. Plowing was easier than getting these to load.
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I see that you slid the rear RH wheel in from previous pics. Now that you have tried it out, are you ready to put the second bottom back on???.
Loren
 
Yes, I had to move the wheel in. The guy I bought it from said that when he was a kid that wheel fell off while he was going down the road so I knew it wasn't 65 years rusted on. The nuts weren't froze and I used Triflo (teflon lube) and I wiggled it in without having to use the big hammer. I am pretty sure it would pull 2. I am all done (forever I hope) with the sod plowing. From here on out I will only be plowing worked ground. I do have the other 2 bottoms for the 101. I could surely put one back on, but I am in close quarters on my place. I have about 1 acre of garden but it is spread all over. This patch I just plowed is the biggest at about 75' sq. THe second bottom may be more in the way than not. I did in 4hr sunday what would have taken 2 wks with my troy tiller. After plowing, I knocked it down with my Dearborn cultivator...I have pictures of that I will post too.
 

I knocked down the plowing with my rear mount cultivator. I rear mount disk would be better but the cultivator was $95 and those small mounted disks are expensive. I then bladed off the grass clumps. One pass with the roto tiller and I will be ready to plant. After the ice storm that is.
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Picture one, you can see that orange Time warner cable sticking up. Picture two was plowed last year so no sod issues there.
 
From the factory I think. 34s?? I need to try to test my top speed with smart phone gps. All I know is with those big wheels 1st and 2nd are pretty fast and reverse is dangerously fast. At east for a geeze like me who hasn't regularly used a tractor for farming in 40 years.

The pto housing and wheel weights came off a yellow tractor. The family I bought it from had it for at least 50 years, but not since new. My CA Allis which I bought first, looks real pretty and I think the engine is fresh, but you can tell by all the noises that tractor had hard use or poor maintenace. The guy I bought the Case from said it mostly only was used on a 5' Case brush hog, which he sold with the tractor. There are no strange noises or leaks with this tractor. The replaced pto housing goes along with its brush hog life.
 
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about something else but that is what I do.
 

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