Built a hydraulic landing attachment

We purchased a used White 6B 598 vari-width plow last week. I have milked about all the life out of the old early 70's Case hydraulic reset plow. The White plow had dealer stickers on it from a dealer in Indiana. Likely it never had to turn furrows on sidehills. Several Mfgs mounted a cylinder down on the hitch bar to shift the plow RH and LH in relation to the tractor, but they did nothing to actually steer the plow RH to LH like the landing lever on a 3pt mounted plow.
The brackets that I fabricated actually steers the plow by changing the angle between the draft beam and the plow beam. The old Case plow had the same setup.
The plow beam and the draft beam both had some 5/8" threaded holes already where I needed them and I drilled and tapped a few more for the main bracket so it will stay secure on the draft beam.





In making this attachment, it is also necessary to release the clamp bolts that tie the draft beam to the front cross frame. Easy to do. Just cut 4 pieces of 3/4" pipe and place them between the clamp assy. so the draft beam can slide laterally on the cross frame. I just smear some grease on the cross bar so clamp assy slides on it easily.



The long pipes that connect to the tailwheel will get cut and rethreaded at the pivot point and hoses will be strung up to the tractor to operate the tailwheel. I also had to raise the mechanical indexing gauge that shows what setting the bottoms are rotated to, and modify the linkage just a bit so nothing gets pinched or bent when the cylinder strokes each way and the bottoms are rotated.

You did a great job, i hope the plow will serve you well.

Looks good! Curious to see if it pulls harder than the Case plow.

OK, I'm confused(Shock!!) I haven't a vari width plow for close to 40 years.(Now I really feel old). The cylinder you added moves the main box beam on the plow? Doesn't that have to be solid when you're using it? Or are you just moving the hitch sideways to allow for width of cut on hillsides. I've seen those before but the cylinder is down on the front cross beam where the lower links attach. I think I know what you are doing, but don't understand how you are doing it. Chris

Did you also make use of your "CBS" paint booth? Great looking work like always!

Well worth the time and materials to improve that plow for the contours you will encounter. Nice. Jim

What dealer in Indiana?

Never used one of those plows but did see one in our county many years ago, before everyone said no-till is the only way to farm.

I'm going to make sure everything works good before it goes into the CBS paint booth.
Loren

Chris; I'm sure you understand what rotating the eccentric shaft on a fully mounted plow does to guide it RH or LH. This attachment does the same thing. It can operate in any position that I set the cylinder, and the plow naturally heads right or left rather than just forcing it right or left against the tractor and not following it's natural line of draft. The concept is the same as adjusting the diagonal brace on the tongue of a trailer plow. If you replaced the multi hole diagonal brace on trailer plow hitch with a hydraulic cylinder you would be doing the same thing that I did here.
Loren

Dealer in Indiana

Loren

The Case plow turnes in theory 90" This 598 White can be narrowed to 84" and widened to 132" with the stroke of a hydraulic lever in the tractor. I will let you know tomorrow. The 7220 pulls the Case plow easily in 9th at 18-1900RPM at 4.7-5MPH, and could easily go faster in 10th or at full throttle in 9th. The plow works real well in the -5MPH range and there is also the ledge rock and bolder factor to consider.
Loren