Plow day pics!

toolz · Nov 26, 2012

Here's some pics from a plow day I attend every year at a friend's place in east central IL. He just invites a small group (20-25) and plows up 240 acres in two days. He has a great guy farming the place, who took 200+ pics. Was a bit sticky, but plowed good. I'm on the 4020 with an IH #16.

Multiple post on the last pic- sorry. More to come

JerryS · Nov 26, 2012

Okay, since I'm not a farmer,I'll be the first one to bite: why is the one guy running duals on only one side? Nice photos, by the way.

Rick Kr · Nov 26, 2012

All nice pictures.

Whats the secret with the CNH pulling the 4 bottom plow with R-4 tires? In my heavy clay soil, on that size tractor it would be like dropping the anchor when the plow sunk in.

Rick

ShadetreeRet · Nov 26, 2012

Jerry, I was never fortunate enough to own a tractor large enough for duals, but let me take a SWAG at it. You notice all the wheel tractors run the right wheels in the furrow. This helps you plow a straight furrow next time around. The man likely runs duals most of the time, but two tires would be too wide for the furrow, so rather than remove the dual from both sides, he only removed the one. With the dual on the left you still have some added traction. Hope this helped a little.

toolz · Nov 26, 2012

When I was young, we almost always ran a dual on the land side, even on the 4630. Weight and added traction was the reason. Furrow wheel always has better traction, so it seemed to help.

toolz · Nov 26, 2012

Rick- The local JR College had a couple of those small utilities out there. That's one of the AG instructors on it. He had a bunch of iron up front on the loader to get enough traction. As you can see, we weren't plowing light soil. The little guy did pretty well for itself, but I don't think the drivetrain was designed for that.

ShadetreeRet · Nov 26, 2012

I understand, thanks. In the area where I grew up, I don't think there were any tractors large enough to need duals, or people just didn't use them.

SweetFeet · Nov 27, 2012

JerryS,
Toolz hit the nail on the head.

Dual on land side adds weight and traction. When we still farmed, husband usually plowed with a dual on the land side of our JD 4020.

Dual on the furrow side would be smooshing/compacting your freshly plowed ground, as it would be wider than your dead furrow.

Daryl in PA · Nov 27, 2012

Thats some darn nice ground right there!

Berth 29 opinions · Nov 27, 2012

Great pics!
I think I saw my first tractor with duals around here last year. This was a tobacco farming area, and the barn doors are 10-12 ft wide.
Corn, soybeans and hay are the crops here now so some are getting the next larger size tractor.

Dean · Nov 27, 2012

I noticed that.

With the loader and probably loaded tires it's probably pretty heavy.

Great looking ground!

Dean

Dean · Nov 27, 2012

Great photos.

I love the guy on the straight pipe equipped 730 with ear muffs.

He's removed the three point, so he's likely a puller.

Dean

Rick Kr · Nov 27, 2012

Ok, so its the utility, that gives it more weight over the compact, plus its weighted as you say. Couldnt tell from the pic, seems the compacts now are running big tires compared to 15 years ago, like the JD4720, Boomer 50, or DX55, they start to look like utility tractors size wise.

I run real deep in my soil due to the tree plantings I do. I can make my NH3930 fwa bark hard with 2-16s on it, and the clay doesn't help.

Rick

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