Curious about one-ways

jnf · Mar 22, 2017

Were one-ways normally pulled with a swinging drawbar on the tractor. I recently acquired a MM GVI that has extreme wear on the rolling drawbar. Just curious as to why. I am in Missouri, but the tractor may have originated in the high plains.

Roger in Iowa · Mar 22, 2017

Yes, pulled with a swinging drawbar. Helps to turn the corners. Pulled a 10' m&m with a WR-9.

Leroy · Mar 22, 2017

I have to say no. I had a John Deere that we used here in Ohio And NO it was never hooked to a swinging drawbar. You would no more hook it up to a swinging drawbar than a moldboard plow And mine was a clutch lift and it was triped at the ends the same as the moldboard plow.

Roger in Iowa · Mar 22, 2017

In Kansas we NEVER farmed back and forth, but round and round. Saved wearing out the mechanical lifts and was far more productive. Always used swinging drawbar on one way and plow (5-14"). Also made turning easier as most older tractors did not have good brakes.

rusty6 · Mar 23, 2017

Yes, coming from disker (one way) country I can say that a swinging drawbar was standard procedure for pulling in the field. Get your wheels
angle and hitch settings right and the disker would follow along in the furrow right behind the tractor. You can see one of mine at work last
summer in this video. It was my uncle's old John Deere "surflex tiller" as they called them. Not the best disker I've pulled but it sure is
tough.
One Way Disker

MarkB_MI · Mar 23, 2017

Spent many hours pulling a one-way disk. Always let the drawbar swing in the field, but would pin the drawbar on the road to keep it under control. Raised out of the ground, a one-way will swing back so it actually presents a fairly narrow profile.

Leroy · Mar 23, 2017

Where I am at you could never get away doing that. We bought it to work up newly bulldosed wood land that was still full of roots. The area we had cleared was a years before pipeline right of way through the edge of the woods with a bit of triangle of woods next to field. 2-300' wide strip. Field average size 8 acres. Worked so good on soybean stubble used it for several years doing that. It was a Deere of I think 8 blades and pulled with a 1950 AR Deere. Steel wheels on the unit with 8 weights on tail wheel and 4 on a front wheel, clutch lift as was too old for anything else. Cut 6 foot wide.

1948CaseVAI · Mar 23, 2017

We always had the drawbar unpinned so it could swing when I was pulling them as a kid.

Leroy · Mar 23, 2017

With the drawbar swinging when you would trip it to raise to make the turn to come back like with a moldboard plow it would have been in the rear tire, at least on what I had.

notjustair · Mar 23, 2017

Yup, I had never farmed without a swinging drawbar until I started farming as an adult on the other side of Kansas. We always used the
swinging drawbar to work ground. Of course, we disked everything to death and pulled a packer behind the disk at all times. We had a
completely different mindset. We always hated that our prepared fields would drift across the road in the Kansas wind like blowing snow. You
know those pictures of fences burried in sand up to the top wire? That's where I grew up. No till? What was that?

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