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This picture just popped up on my phone from 5 years ago. I'm pretty sure it was taken closer to 10 years ago though. It's my cousin and I doing some plowing. I had the G, and completely restored the John Deere plow. Had nearly every bolt out. It was an F630 3-16" plow. I set it by the book and it pulled like a dream. I always liked this picture.
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The only thing I miss about that MD dirt is how it would shine up a plow. You could pull a plow out of fence row where it sat for 10 years and two or three rounds latter it had a mirror shine. My black dirt here will not plow unless you shine the bottoms with a grinder it just sticks and pushes. Tom
 
My father-in-law told me his neighbors (two brothers) bought a G. I guess the rumor was it was so big all you could use it for was to plow and disk. BTO's back in the forties?
 
Maybe you are plowing too deep. I am 84 and long times past old timers told me to get a bottom to scar do not plow deep.
 

Gene,
I was born in Grundy Co., IA, and I agree that if you plowed that wonderful Iowa soil too deep, you would not get a moldboard to scour.
My father bought a '52 G in about 1957. That tractor broke down so much I told dad that lemon even breaks down at night in the machine shed! It had good compression and burned little oil, but that piece of crap was a poor excuse for a tractor. To this day when I see someone driving a G I always feel sorry for him.

Gene, I'm trying to catch you...will be 83 in March. I still enjoy driving the ol' H around our area, brings back a lot of memories.

Lowell

PS Note: my new email address.
 

It looks like whoever made the pass before you whose furrow you are in had his plow sunk in about a foot deep, so your plows are in about ten inches deep.
 
Might be how just the picture is. We were
usually around 8" I think. It was an
Uncle's field (Dave Wyand, Tom). He told
me how deep to set it. I had never plowed
before this.
 
A couple years ago I bought a 49 G from the retired farmer that bought it in 1961. They came about 38 hp but he said that when he bought it he put M&W pistons and gas manifold in it and it dynoed around 70. It starts on the second turn every time and I love to listen to it and I do use it. Could use power steering, though.
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Haha! I guess at that time it was huge. My grandfather told me the same thing about when he first saw an IH 806, and about the 4520 he bought new later. He thought "why would anyone need such a big tractor?".

Its funny how tractor size and what is "too" big is all relative.

My other grandfather has a 25 acre farm he worked with a Super C and a John Deere 820 (the German built, small utility tractor). We brought my brother's John Deere 730 up one day run the baler. That tractor looked like a giant on that farm! I remember it seemed to dwarf the corn crib and wagon shed we kept the Super C in. Bring it back to the other grandparents farm and that 730 is a baby beside the 7800.
 
This one had m&w pistons as well. It would do 3rd gear with this plow but it seemed too fast, so we used 2nd. Power steering would have been great! I also realized the value of, and wished I had, live hydraulics.

You have a nice looking G there.
 
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