I forgot one he used to tell me about plowing with his dad and uncle. There was a spot where a guy had buried some rocks in a long trench with an old D7 Cat. Dad said the guy had pushed a long trench down so deep you couldn't see the top of the canopy at all above the ground around it. When he pushed all the rocks in, he just pushed whatever he dozed out back over it. All the good topsoil was all covered up with solid yellow clay. Dad said any time you would hit that spot while plowing it would be like plowing concrete. So he was just starting out on his own, and had a John Deere G, a 1951, and 2 JD A's. His dad had a Super M gas and his uncle had a brand new Super MD Farmall. Dad had his G. It had .125 over pistons and dad said it really pulled well. He would start first plowing, and could pull the 3-16's all the way down all the way through the field, even through the clay spot. Then the Super MD, then the Super M. They all had Oliver 3- 16" hyd trailer plows. When he got back around the where the clay was, he said the Super MD could only pull the plow about 4-5 inches deep. The Super M gas could only pull it 2-3 inches deep he claimed, so he said when he got back to that spot, he had hardly enough furrow to keep his tire in. Said he could lap the 2 other tractors every round and a half, but he had to refill with gas by mid morning break, where the Super M gas would go until lunch time, and the Super MD would go until dinner time or past. Dad later bought a 4010 JD before later selling all of his JD's and fully switching to IH. I can always remember riding in the 1066 with his as a little kid in the back of cab plowing one of our fields that had a clay knoll on a hill. Dad always pulled 5-16's with it, said he didn't need to work it to death, I think he plowed in Low 4 or High 1? Anyway, I can always remember getting to that hill full of clay and the old 1066 wouldn't grunt or slip a tire, but it'd lift the front tires, even with suitcase weights on the front, about 18" off the ground all the way up that hill until you crested the top, where it would gently settle back down onto the ground. We haven't moldboard plowed anything in 25 years.
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