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I have often heard guys saying they plowed 'down to the beams' and I have wondered how the hell they did that. I have yanked a fair number of plows and they will only go so deep IF properly set up. That is typically half the width of the plow...or 8" for a 16" bottom. Besides that, I don't know why you'd want to bring up the subsoil anyway. A subsoiler is what is used to break the hardpan anyway. You don't want it on top in the first place. A plow properly adjusted will pull easily, your tractor will track straight and the furrows will roll over evenly across the field. You aren't fighting the tractor all day long, and you can make some time across the field. When you fail to adjust the plow right, the tractor tracks like a sideways running dog..his a$$ trying to catch his nose and you're steering against the plow and riding the land side brake in an attempt to go straight. This is all wrong! And setting the points so they will dig deep lugs the tractor until black smoke rolls from the pipe all day and what have you accomplished...bragging rights? Adjust the plow as it should be, let it do the work it was designed to do and your plowed ground will work up better, always look good and you won't be worn out from fighting the tractor all day long. Set the draft control properly and you won't be hanging the tractor every time you encounter a hard spot. It'll lift the plows for a second and drop them right back down without a whimper. I can hear my lift working all the time I plow...as it absorbs the different soil conditions. When I am done, you could almost set a level on the furrows across the field..no humps and valleys....just as even from one side to the next. It's not rocket science either.
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