trip type plow bounces out

I try to teach the 'kids' who work for me how to drive a tractor. Some of them are good, some never sit on one again... One thing I am confounded by is that a lot of the time when they pull the rope to drop the plow it drops and comes up right away. I can plow all day and have it happen maybe once but I don't know what makes the difference. What should I tell them to do differently?

Thanks

Greg

They are holding the rope Tight to long pull it tight and let go.

Let go of the rope quicker.

Paul

Get them an old P&O plow; you had to pull the rope a LONG time to get it to work.

Yes holding rope too long. I have no idea what plow you have so don't know if everything is enclosed or not. On some plow look at the trip lever and you will see when it is pulled a roller starts to move to come up and it will be on two seperate parts and watch in slow motion when the two parts start to move apart and as they get halfway apart it is time to let go of the rope. If you hold the rope too long it goes past the notch the roller has to go back in so it just keeps rolling over. Some plows everything is hidden inside so you cannot see where the trip is at to know when to let go so it on them is more of a learned guess. But if it is a plow that you can see the trip in action then just as you are trying to see operation put tractor in as low a gear as possible and use the clutch to stop every foot and look where that trip is setting and once you see how it operates then you will understand the time to hold the rope. It can very on one plow to anouther, a plow with a 32" wheel the wheel will turn slower than one with a 28" wheel so time for holding the rope will be a split second longer and ground travel speed makes a difference as well as the faster the ground speed the less time pulling the rope. Started learning that in 57 when I was 14 years old with an AC No. 2 plow behind a 38 A JD. Now a Oliver rooster come plow will be different in seeing the lift in action and the one I had later had totaly enclosed clutch could not see anything either, that plow only stayed around for one season as never did work properly asd was traded in on a JD 55H plow with no clutch. Used 2 different JD NO. 52 plows with that open clutch. Toward the end Grandpa was having those troubles and got Grandma to call the dealer out to fix but it was just him getting too old, nothing wrong with plow. But that is when I learned they could get grease-dirt build up in them that would do that.

Oops, it is a JD 44. Thanks for the trip description.

Greg

Thanks guys, I'll tell them to give the rope a good yank and let go.

Greg

That is a close clutch that you cannot see any of the action inside to be able to gauge with sight how long to hold the rope. just a quick yank and let go should do it.