Bought my first plow

rbhuntn

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Well I found a deal on a 3 bottom plow a couple of hours south of me and picked it up Saturday.

Wasn't sure what I had bought. Was googling today and found one that looked just like except for the paint. See some green on it and a lot of either faded red or orange.

If what I have found is correct it is an Oliver 346 3 bottom. Will be pulling it with my Mahindra 4550 50HO diesel. Attaching the pic I downloaded from the net.

Question is was this plow made by Oliver or someone else?

Any info you knowledgeable folks out there will help. Never used one of these before. I have used cultivators and disks.

Thanks

BJ
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Oliver is known more for their plows than for anything else that they built. I am pretty sure that I have read that they had a self destruct mechanism built into them that will cause it to disintegrate when hooked onto a foreign built tractor. You would be better off to sell it to someone with an Oliver tractor.
 
Yes Oliver made the plow. They don't come any better than an Oliver plow. Many other brands of plows are made by Oliver or use a large portion of Oliver parts. You can add at least one more bottom to that plow if the need should ever arise. The Floyd County Museum in Charles City will have operators manuals and parts book for that plow.
 
I have a 4 bottom 546 which looks to be the semi-mount version of that plow. When you get yours oil up them trip springs and loosen them up. Then when plowing at first they will be tripping all the time
without hitting rocks. So you start tightening them up until they no longer trip unless hit rock. Otherwise if they are to tight you will break the point off share before it ever trips. This is unless your
plow was used last year. Then they are probably set just right already. I inherited mine from Father-in-law and it had been sitting outside unused for 25 years. So what I found out the hard way, I am
telling you today.
 
I have one almost exactly like that one. Difference is the back of the beam on mine is square instead of that angle on yours. Mine is/was 3-16 when we bought it. Pulled it with a JD620. It's so heavy we had to plow with the loader on. We moved up to a JD720 and added the fourth bottom.

It would go in the ground, when it got hard in the summer, when others would just skid on the top.

I still have it.
 
Thanks for the info everyone. I have no history on this plow. Guy I bought it from got from his uncles estate.

I hope that self-destruct things doesn't blow my tractor up too.

I will look for the manuals thanks for the tip on those.
 

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