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SMTA still can pull the plow

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charlieu

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I have a neighbor that invited me to plow a patch of ground for him. Last Friday afternoon I turned a little dirt over. I thought that you all would enjoy a few pictures. My SMTA has been fitted with a fasthitch, boy is that handy. I know this plow has not been shined up for about 20 years so it took a while for the dirt to slide by the moldboards without sticking.
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Looks like some heavy ground. That is a nice clean furrow. I bet it will look even better once you get a land shine on those bottoms. Which model plow is that?
 
It's a 535, her big brothers were the 540, 550 & 560 plows. My Dad bought this plow new in the mid to late 60's. When my Dad passed I received the plow and a Farmall 350 (the only tractor that Dad ever bought new). I figured it was better to go with the SMTA because of all the rust that was on the moldboards and I knew it was going to pull hard untill I got it shined up.
I did find out that the trip bottoms still work, I hit a couple rocks and the rear bottom tripped and the next round the front bottom tripped. It sure brought back memories. My neighbor will have some more ground to plow when he gets the corn picked and the stalks chopped and rolled up into those big round bales.
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Did the tripped bottoms swing back okay? I was plowing with my "new" rusty old #60 when the middle bottom tripped. Everything was so rusty it took us an hour to beat it back into position.
 
(quoted from post at 13:05:40 10/13/14) Did the tripped bottoms swing back okay? I was plowing with my "new" rusty old #60 when the middle bottom tripped. Everything was so rusty it took us an hour to beat it back into position.
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I was able to just backup and reset the front bottom, the rear one was a little more difficult, I had to get the rear tire back into the furrow and it took me two trys but I got it from the tractor seat. I'm sure a little lube on the pivot bolt would not hurt anything.
 
Cool.

I really like the setup. My plan is to someday get a stout 450 or maybe a 560 and hook it to Dad's old 540 plow.
 
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