Glenco pull type chisel plow quesiton

I've seen a Glenco "G" or "C" pull type, 10 shank with 3 inch twisted shovels for sale which I am considering to purchase. Each shank is spring loaded. I'm not familiar with Glenco implements so I seeking opinions to anyone who might be familiar with this brand. It does not the the disks mounted in the front; simply a pull type chisel plow with no rear attachments. If purchased, I intend to use my JD 4020 with duals. Your thoughts and assistance is always appreciated.
 
I use a 9 shank Glenco soil saver with the disks on the front behind my IH 1586 with duals. Works great for me. My 720 plow hangs up in heavy ground sometimes but the chisel goes right thru it.
 
I"ve had my Giant C since bought new in 1985. Used with 4020, 4230, 4430. It is a 12 shank. In all these years I"ve broken only one shank, and that was cuz I was hunting rocks with it- purposely trying to dig them out. I"ve dug out rocks up to 2-3 feet in diameter. Usually multiple passes if needed, but the time I broke a shank was when I backed up, over the rock, to engage it again- not wanting to take the time to circle. The point snagged on the rock, and cannot stand reverse pressure. I"ve pulled out rocks that raised the wheels off the ground, and no damage.

The frame is filled to add weight- it stays in the ground where other chisels jig around. I"ve used it to dig out old fencelines, filled with rocks, posts, wire, etc.

I"ve used straight and twisted shovels on it. Twisted do take more power, but they move more dirt. With any curved shovel, install them so that all point toward the middle, not the outside...otherwise there is an untilled strip in the middle.
 
Steve I have 1 with 9 or 11 shanks (memory problem). I hooked on to it last fall and chiseled some worn out alalfa sod. I have a 200 AC with no front weights, single 18.4X38 Firestone Traction field and Road tires. Front end was off the ground a lot at first. I grabbed the cylinder stops off the field cultivator, set it to run about 8"s deep and got along fine after that. Was in hilly ground, heavy soil. Alalfa was all gone on the back piece, went ahead and field cultivated it and reseeded to Alalfa last fall. It worked out well, front piece had some alalfa left. Put some winter wheat on it for a cover crop will rework it in May and seed it.
 
Any chisel plow will plug up in long cornstalks. Shanks are typically about one per foot of coverage. Distance between ranks may be different, especially on newer models, but older ones are all about the same. Stalks need to be chopped with a flail stalk chopper to flow through. Most older plows don"t have enough vertical clearance to handle long stalks. Discing doesn"t cut them up enough either.
 
Thanks everyone your your responses. My JD 4020 has liquid loaded rear tires with duals with front weights on the front. In cornstalks I have always chopped them down before considering anyhing in the way of tillage. I currently use a JD 1600 3 point mounted that is 10 shank with 2 inch spikes on it, and in most conditions it does okay. I want to change to a pull type that my 4020 will reasonably handle. Traction or power has not been an issue with the unit I'm using now. Again, your assistance/advice/experience is always appreciated.
 
Pulling with a 4430
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I have a 7 shank Soil Saver twisted shovels, and that gives my 140 hp tractor a workout in dry yellow clay. Which is the perfect time to be using deep tillage, shatter the hard stuff. The year I got it, my 720 plow would not penetrate the hard patches in my fields with new lays and set aggressively.

I don't like to go light on tillage hp any more; when you need the tillage is when its going to pull very hard. In the easy years you probably aren't really doing much but stirring in the stalks anyhow. When the going gets tough and you stay deep, is when that hard tillage is doing good.

Paul
 
I have five chisel plows here I use, sorry none are Glenco made units but built pretty much the same, I have from a 10 shank to a 31 shank units, one of my most used tools here in the small grain belt since I moved away from moboard plowing every year,,
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Oh, gosh yes, we call that "Yellow Wax" and it is as hard as concrete when dry and sticky as contact cement when damp..Pulls hard as the Devil..!!!

( Central Ohio)..
Ron.
 
I have clay like that about 18" down. Not real yellow but definitely the stuff you are talking about. Harder than concrete in the dry years. Gets a pan going and holds water above it. Sometimes too much water. It can make life tough some years.
 
Really like this. Does the disc lift separate from the chisel?
Similar to what I am wanting to do with some stuff I have.
 
Do you think it would work well with the disc in front. Use rectangular tubing for the beam? Here is what I'm currently doing, would like to make it one implement (partly because frame on chisel is about shot)
Thanks,
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Had to go over it twice, dryland prairie/pasture that hadn't been farmed in about 30 years. Had it on a 1486 IH (used in one year with an 806 but couldn't go as deep as I wanted). In stubble it makes a one pass seed bed (sometimes I use a spike tooth harrow behind the dis).
 

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