Posted by Bill VA on November 07, 2015 at 16:27:08 from (45.52.131.122):
Enjoying some window shopping with respect to a couple of tractors. On the front burner at the moment is a Farmall 400 and in as much as they are so similar, the 450 too.
Looking at the 400, there appears to be no draft control. The 450 looks like it has it via a big cylinder running beneath the tractor? That cylinder looks like something to be high centered or worse - knocked off on a rock!
I've plowed some with my old MF50 and the draft control works great. You can almost see the plow moving up and down a tad as you plow.
My Wife's father grandfather farmed with a Farmall H and later a Super H - which I gather, neither had draft control.
Question - when you're plowing with a tractor without draft control, are you simply muscling through the ground, hit a tough spot the tractor pulls down, spins or worse flips over backwards!
Or were there provisions on these tractors and/or plows to account for draft?
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