I got the new to us White 598 plow in the field today.

We brought this White plow home earlier last week. We gave it a little TLC and got it ready to go back to the field. It had a couple of leaky hoses, a broken shear, a few missing bolts, and the bottoms were rusty and needed to be sanded down so they would scour. We have an ancient Rockwell 7" disc sander which is the perfect tool to remove rust from plow bottoms. It also needed a hydraulic landing system for our sidehills, which I fabricated this week and posted about earlier. The plow was sold new by a dealer in Indiana, and we bought it from local jockey--MacFadden and sons.> I left one long strip on the lower farm between the upper and lower ledges where there was lots of limestone chip to scour the bottoms. The chipps did great with minimal scraping at the end of each trip across tsrc="https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cvphotos/cvphoto62768.jpg">







As usual, my aerial bombers found me within minutes of dropping the plow into the ground.



AND then this happened!!! #4 shank broke off the plow. After a quick look, this shank had been cracked for far more time than we have had this plow. Oh well, hope to find a new shank tomorrow at my friendly CNH dealer. The Case 4-500 plows made by White take the same shank.

Yes the bottom is buried. I plow 8-10" deep where the soil is that deep; and this is what I found when I went back to retrive the plow bottom. >Loren

The Mormon Air Force seems to really like your work.

Every body has to eat Loren Thanks for your contribution !CM

Looks nice and it looks like you have upgraded from the bubble tractor at least maybe one notch

Hey Chuck, I will try to give you a ringy dingy at barley pop time tomorrow.----Loren

Sv; In many ways I miss the Bubble Tractor(MX110) It was much more comfortable and maneuverable, but after the replacement clock in it, showing 9879 hrs, it shucked out the hydraulic pump drive which is in the transmission., so for the last 2 weeks I have been plowing with the Magnum. It plays with the Case 5x18 plow but this new 6B vari-width can bring the 7220 to it's knees. This plow will open up to a 132" theoretical swath compared to the 90" swath that Case plow can make.. Today I had it set to about 18" furrow cut. rather than 22" max, so I am now pulling an extra bottom. I had to drop from plowing in 9th gear at 1800RPM, to 8th gear at full throttle. Was plowing at an average speed of 4.6-5MPH with the Case plow. Now down to 4.3-4.6MPH. I haven't done the math for A/Hr. but I bet it will be about the same, but I think fuel consumption per A will be up a bit.---------------Loren

Ill set my clock to it! CM

If JD storyteller were still here, hed tell you he has 28000 hours on one pulling 8 bottoms 10 mph! 😂😂😂😂😂

"Mormon Air Force"...HAH!

Consider that stolen!

great post!!Thanks!!

For years I tried to tell people it is much easier to scour a rusty plow if you hit the moldboards with a flex back disk on a 7" grinder. Always a few that say it ruins the moldboards,, oh well, some people just refuse to do things the easy way so I keep my trap shut about it on here. I purchased an antique engine at a McFadden auction a couple years ago, guess I wasn't very far from you.

"Ruins the moldboards"? The damage is already done, by the rust! Fortunately I never had to deal with that. Our plows were always oiled, greased, painted, and/or kept inside. Even the several used plows I bought were well maintained, or had new moldboards.

Maybe I'm reading your reply above wrong, but it sounds like you are saying you think the acres per hour is the same for the 5 bottom vs the 6 bottom, but fuel consumption will be higher with the 6. If that is the case then what is the advantage of going to 6? I understand your 5 bottom plow is worn out and you need a new one, but you would be ahead with burning less fuel with another 5. Can you drop a bottom on the 6?

You pick that up at Jim’s last auction? Or buy it off the lot.
I feel like that plow went pretty cheap at the Sept. auction.

My goal yesterday was to get the plow scoured and get used to it. This is a veri-width plow and I can switch from 84" to 132" plowing width by moving a hyd remote lever. No need to take a bottom off. When I get to a field that is not all rock ledge and sidehill I will start playing with various settings, and get the tractor and plow in tune with each other for best plowing results and economy. Yesterday I set the bottoms on 18" for a comparison with the old Case plow.
Loren

Loren called me last night after I commented about the "Mormon Air Force" to ask what I meant. I told him I'd make a post to explain. Here it is: The Mormons arrived in the Great Salt Lake valley in early summer of 1847. They were able to plant sufficient crops to sustain them over the winter. The next spring (1848) they planted new crops and things appeared to be on track for a bumper crop. However in midsummer there was an invasion of large crickets who began to devour this crop. Of course the people were devastated as this was to be their means of survival for them and the many new immigrants who were en route to the valley. Leader Brigham Young called for a day of fasting and prayer. The next day a huge flock of seagulls from the Great Salt Lake appeared and devoured the crickets saving the crops. A few years ago a friend of mine called an flock of these same gulls "The Mormon Air Force." I like the name hence what I wrote.