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Played around with the WD and the plow today

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Will Herring

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Haven't put the plow on the WD to actually put it in the ground in probably 3 years. I made a pretty good mess, I figured it would plow good as dry as it was and being in beans this year, but that brown clay just clung to the shares and I had to knock it off every 3 passes or so with a shovel. I'm pretty amateur at this, though.

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I didn't need to plow it for anything, it'll get cleaned up by the field chisel in a few weeks or so anyway, just wanted to play around while I had a nice day to do it. Rather relaxing, other than having to clean it out. Also plugged up a few times due to bean trash, yuck.
 
What every tractor needs, a little pigeon poo on the hood. The surface of the plow needs to be like a mirror and can take quite a lot of plowing to obtain. If you have an orbital sander and can get that Really fine black sand paper, give it a polish. I did it with 600 and it worked but even finer is better. One plow had miss matched parts and where they met the soil would get stuck. Finnaly got a couple of new parts and that fixed a whole lot of plug ups. ALWAYS coat all of the surface area with grease and not paint when you are done. Grease will clean right off in a half of a pass as where paint sticks too well.
 
Hum! See the cultivator brackets on the front. When was the last time they were used. Do you still have the radiator shutters? See the crank anyway.
 
The only way an amateur can become a professional is through experience so keep plugging away at it and have fun. I don't know what your plow bottoms look like and I certainly don't know what your soil is like. Some of our soil will stick to the plow bottoms even if they shine like a mirror. It sticks like goo and every square inch of the stuff has to be scraped of.
 
One more thought went flying buy. Does your plow have those nice round cutter things? Coulters. Also are they set correctly. Gets discussed on here quite often. I remember setting a plow up by the book one time and Good Golly it plowed correctly!
 
My first tractor was an Allis WD paid $500 for it in 1987 while still in school.I had a plow but never used it.I sold it in 1990 to help pay for a Deere 2510. They were a nice tractor to pull wagons and rake hay with. I did buy a WD45 wide front and power steering this spring. Thanks for posting pics. Tom
 

I always have a Putty Knife in the toolbox for that..!!

As I have posted before: Use an Angle-Grinder ( 4 1/2") and THIN Cut-off Disc, held at approx. 30 degrees to the steel surface ( Wear a Dust Mast & Googles)..

Use that as you would a Putty Knife and you WILL clean only the surface rust off and leave a Black Oxide layer that will scour off nicely..

ALWAYS Coat the shiny surfaces with oil ( if not Grease), then spray on a good coat of cheap enamel paint, to keep and hold that preservative in place..
 

Nice looking job..!!

My WD-45 looks a little different when the Plow is on..the rear wheel need to be set 2/3 of the way OUT, for the AC 4x14 Semi mounted..

You have a fine looking WD..!
 
Your doing a decent looking job of plowing, seen much worse done by guys who claimed to know what they were dong. Different soil type require differing amounts of scour before they will roll off the moldboards but all (that I have ever been around) will quickly scour if you get the worse of the rust off. Good hard steel such as used in the A-C mold boards resists sand paper and knocks down the points on the grit very quickly. I have cleaned up and scoured a good many A-C plows and I use 24 or 36 grit disks on flexible backing either 4 or 7" The course grit quickly knocks the rust off and the hard steel knocks back the grit and actually takes on a polish even with that course grit, hard to believe I know but it does. Takes a new disk on each bottom. Using fine paper just make the whole process take longer. I just did a very rusty 4-16 model 2000 in just over 30 minutes with 7" grinder and 36 grit disks. The plow done this way will immediately roll dirt and thus will scour itself quickly.
 
centralilbaler - Oh man, I know there's some gumbo around here, I can imagine just burying the plow in it and being done haha.

4wdtom - Thanks, it's a 1953 I believe (regular WD with the crooked shifter), but she still runs really good.

NEKS - I think grandpa sold off the cultivator in the 80s, but left the brackets on. I kind of like 'em, haha.

tomstractorsandtoys - You're welcome, thanks. :)

jeffcat, fixerupper, BushhogPapa, Butch(OH) - Ah yes, always dust and pidgeon poo! The plow isn't quite shined up like I want, except for the tips. When I first put it back into service I used an angle grinder with one of those knob wire brushes and got a lot of rust and nasty off but there's still a layer of black oxide on it. I do keep it greased, but I haven't gotten it shined up enough yet. Need to find some sandy/rocky soil I think or just to keep plowing with it. But maybe it was a bit too wet and sticky this time? I think I just need to go out and keep at it. Now if only I could drive a straight row with the plow, to boot, lol...

Another pic -- I have a 3 bottom snap coupler mounted plow.

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