Seat Time with my single bottom plow !

Billy NY · Nov 28, 2011

Well the moldboard got rusty, grease came off, so seeing my lower garden which I plan to plant next year, really needed to be moldboard plowed, some rocks and roots that the walk behind troy bilt just don't like. Done in short order too, kinda wish there was more to do, but now I can paint that moldboard !

Started by doing this:

Seemed to really work nice properly set up, coulter was adjusted just right, only thing was the garden was not square, its also on a slope, but I was able to get it squared up so next time it should be straight furrows to the end.

I looks curved from this angle and might be, I plowed 1 last furrow, probably one more I'd be straight but that is as wide as I want to go. Single bottoms are sure handy, this was a nice find, also came with a gauge wheel, looks like whoever bought it, did so with all options, got it for $100 in '09.

MarkWV · Nov 28, 2011

wish it was dry enough here to do that, took 6' tiller to new patch for next year but would like to plow over and let it go thru winter freezes, nice job

larry@stinescorner · Nov 28, 2011

you did way better than I did with my plow,I didnt do a good job like that! Very nice!

Paul from MI · Nov 28, 2011

Way too wet around here to try anything like that. Barely get into the woods to cut firewood.

DeltaRed · Nov 28, 2011

Good job,looks like fun.Is that Ford propane powered?Factory or addded on?Work good?

flying belgian · Nov 28, 2011

A finely adjusted plow is a pleasure to run isn't it. Be sure and pass that skill on to the next generation.

Tony in Mass. · Nov 28, 2011

Yep, single bottoms is how someone teaches himself how to plow 'properly'. Multi bottoms is how someone who never practiced much plows a small place badly, but gets it done fast. Yes, I have a welding job to do here. When I bought it, it was welded up to nver go left handed again. These 2 ways is what you need to go up the side of your hill.

Billy NY · Nov 28, 2011

Was LP when I got it, converted, Impco model J vaporizer, not sure of the carb. Oil stays clean in it. This vaporizer seems to freeze up more now than it did in cold weather, have to put a blanket over the tank, engine heat, coolant eventually heats up, probably something to do in that vaporizer, I did rebuild it once. Oddball 850, backhoe mount, no fenders well worn tractor.

Billy NY · Nov 28, 2011

It sure is satisfying to see good results, I set it up as I believe it should, did not use draft control, as I think it does not work on this tractor, could have used a gauge wheel to do the same, but I took it off, labelled it and its on the shelf, plow did pull smoothly, I expected it to shear a bolt on the tree root, did not. Thought I might have to adjust where it trails, soaked the u bolts, but seemed to be right on where it should based on how it plowed. I lowered the lever all the way, the plow was not sucking in too deep or anything. I will have to measure my level box rod and top link ends for future reference.

Billy NY · Nov 28, 2011

One of those would be nice in my food plots, where I end up with dead furrows in the middle if I plow both ways instead of going around again to come back the same way, always wondered what the purpose was and how those 2 way plows came to be, not many around here or so I have seen.

Seat Time with my single bottom plow !

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