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I guess I agree with the rest, good advise. Chisel plow will drag a lot of grass, and it will regrow as it's not turned over. Where I live is heavy clay soils - mostly. I have 5 acres of shale sand that is _thin_ soil, 15 acres of peat (muck to some?) that is so rich & soft it burned for a couple years before it was plowed... The rest is clay loam valleys with yellow clay hills. So, that sand hill I could plow in 6th gear if it wouldn't heat up the bottom & wear it off too much. The peat I could plow in 5th gear, except it plugs up so bad with cornstalks I mostly am standing still. The rest pulls about right in 3rd-4th gear (8 speed tranny). But, 4 of the last 20 years have been different conditions, and I've been down to 2nd gear most of those years, with the front end in the air, the radiator steaming, the diff lock on all the time... This was an 85 hp tractor with 4-16" on it. (Now I have a 4-18" on a 135 hp tractor, and I can still make it grunt on some fields...) So, what kind of soil do you have? 'Here' we can _never_ pull what a tractor is 'rated' for. Maybe that works where you are tho. Me, I always try to err on the side of keeping the tractor happy. You should be able to pull a 3-16" no matter what the year throws at you. If you have the easy soils, 4-14" might be a good match. As mentioned, several models of beam plows use all the same bolt holes, so you can take the last bottom off & move the rear wheel up. Others have a bolted joint in the beam, and are really built to be extended, from 3-6 bottoms whatever you want. --->Paul
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