What sould I do to use a plow?

300guy

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As a complete new person to setting up a plow, what should the left rear wheel be set at for plowing with a #8 14" plow? Also I will use it on a 300 with 2 point hitch and the 2 point draw bar. Where should I place the clevis and how high off the ground would you set the draw bar?
As a kid, Dad had a small stick we used to measure between the axle housing and the wheel. I never did ask or find out what setting that was. And he just knew where to put the clevis on our H's solid draw bar that we used to plow with. They of course had the solid draw bar with the swinging one.
 
Is it a 2-14or 3-14, the ground wheel lever, would be about the the 1/4 of the way, notch wise , up from the bottom, you can adjust the side ways adjustment, until the front bottom take's a full 14 in cut. You can take a level and a tape measure, out in field with you and stop and check to see if the plow is level when in the ground. Are your shares sharp?
 
The drawbar should be pretty to easy to adjust up down on the 2 point hitch but start about at 18 inches, At out local plow day, none of the plows, would go in on the end of the field where they parked the truck's .
 
I moved back to the old family place, wound up with a "H" Farmall, a Deere 2 bottom 14" plow and a custom 3-point hitch holding it all together. Wouldn't plow at all. Slewed the tractor around sideways, cut haphazard, if at all. After a summer trying to study it, I finally got it figured. I had to rig a turn-buckle to hold things, so the plow cut level, straight fore=and=aft, and was held at 14" away from the inside of the rear wheel. The plow had to run level, so it cut level, and held straight so the side-board along the side of the furrow [whatever the correct term is...] ran straight fore-and-aft. Once I got things held in place, cutting straight and level and fore-and-aft, and HELD in place, it went very smooth.
 

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