When the plows would cause a little compaction is when they started to become sled runners and were no longer sharp. A sharp share will make a loose bottom to the furrow as the knife blade part cuts and lifts the soil but let it get worn to a sled runner but will still go in the ground and as that knife blade portion of the share is no longer at the very bottom of the cut it will put pressure on the furrow bottom and tighten the soil up. The solution is to use sharp shares and not try to get by with shares that need resharpening. And the weight is the same on the same amount of ground if the wheel is on top of the ground or in a furrow, you just will see and notice any packing more in the bottom of a furrow than you will on top and the ground usually has more moisture in at the bottom of the furrow than on top so you notice it more but there is no more weight in furrow than out to compact. And for the horses feet packing, they can plow when no one else can because they DO NOT pack like a tractor tire does. When you consider that years ago the commom size plow was 2 bottoms at 12 inches for 24" total and try putting that tractor on land you would have so much side draft you could not stear the tractor even if you ran duals on the plow side and a single on the non plow side. That would be the same princple as running a narrow tread that would work good as an in furrow unit and setting those wheels out to 40" row cultivating width of 80" wheel track and trying to hitch the plow far enough to the side to get it to where it would throw the soil into the previous furrow then you would have so much side draft you could not stear even if you added enough weight to the front of the tractor that you were carrying anouther tractor up there it would try to still slide the front end to the right all the time. This is for all right hand plows as that is what all the tractor plows were with some of the horse plows left hand.
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