Re: IHC plows

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 14, 2006 at 18:32:24 from (216.208.58.148):

In Reply to: Re: IHC plows posted by FromJB2 on March 14, 2006 at 16:56:31:

JB2: Actually it was a bit further east than ON. You are however very correct, the Ace would lay a beautiful furrow even as slow as 1.5 mph. You just loaded the tractor with enough bottoms to load it at 3 mph. I my opinion there is still nothing to match an ace bottom in stony soil. What we had was the ocasional stone, and they were large enough to be murder on plows. The trip hitch was fine for 2 bottoms, but once you increased the spring tension on the hitch, to pull 3-4 bottoms, you lost some of that protection.

I went from my old IH trailer plows to a new 510 semi-mount 5x16 with super chief bottoms. Pulled that a few times with 1066, but could clearly see hired help would soon make mincemeat of that plow, in those ocasional stones. Yes, it had trip beams, and they tripped but that did not eliminate breakage. I fixed those young lads, put the 5x16 plow behind the 656 and said, "Now boys that will cure the fast plowmen." Plowed for years with that setup, neighbor up the road was pulling 5x16 trailer with a Cockshutt 570 diesel.

High speed bottoms are little more than an expensive way to plow. If you fully load the tractor with bottoms at 3 mph, the cost of wear parts per acre will be 50% less than a tractor pulling less bottoms at 5mph.

The 60 hp tractor at 3mph pulling 5x16 plow also actually plows as much ground per hour as the same tractor at 4mph pulling 4x14 bottoms. If you get into better going and increase each by 1 mph, they will still plow about the same acres per hour.

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• Re: IHC plows Don L C 18:45:07 03/15/06 (0)

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