I was reading up a bit on IH plows & found out the Little Genius #8 tractor plow with 14" bottoms has 22" between the underside of the beam & the tip of the share. The fore & aft spacing of the bottoms is 21". The #70 from IH has 27" between the beam & share & 24" fore & aft between the bottoms. The little adding machine made some noise in my head & I didn't come across any large numbers. So, is the difference of 5" & 3" respectively really going to let the trash pour through? I'm not really seeing much of an improvment with the comparison, here. Apparently the advertising department for IH back in '59 didn't dwell much upon it either as there is no reference made to any improvment in clearence over the #15 & #16, or any of the older tractor plows that preceded them, in the 1960 catalog.I'm also curious about how well a Farmall Cub is going to do in corn stubble. Just found a plow for my Cub & would like to use it to plow down the sweet corn stubble after I take off the stalks with the forage harvester. Don't know how much of a mess the chopper will leave behind, never used it in corn before. Also, there was mention about trash or corn springs that press the stalks down in front of the coulter in my last post about tillage. Would anyone have a picture of that setup? While I'm thinking of it, are or were there trash plates made to fit the HA1 or GA1 bottom on the Little Genius plow? I know they made them for the Super Chief bottoms, but I don't know the compatability between the two. Again, thank you all for your insights on my last post about plows & providing me with a variety of options. In the next week or so, I'm venturing out to go look at a Little Genius with 4-14". Not really planning on buying, just using it as a starting point for my plow shopping adventure. Mike
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