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Plowing---Ploughing???

big tee

big tee

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Whatever you want to call it--I'm sure most of us on here have sat on one cheek all day with a crook in your back like the guy in the picture. I started on a Ford 8n with a 2-14s Dearborn plow--I didn't get to run the "big" tractor--A M Farmall with a 3-16s little genius plow for I had older brothers. Don't know which was worse--hitting a big rock and stopping dead with the Dearborn, or getting off and hooking back up again after hitting a rock with the little genius . I still remember the smell of fresh turned dirt though--Memories---Tee
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Pic out of the special Furrow
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The 8n I learned to drive a tractor on--My Mom took a lot of pics and we copied them 3-4 years before she died--Glad we did for most of them disappeared!
 
I first plowed with an Allis Chalmers D15 Series II and a 2 bottom 14 inch snap coupler plow. The truth is I just followed dad around the field (Deere 2510 diesel and three bottom F125 plow) raising and lowering my plow at each end.LOL After a few nice fields we went to hills and rougher ground that required me to learn how to use the draft control. Tom
 
By the looks of it (brand-new Ford truck and station wagon) 1958 was a profitable year on the family farm!
 
Just what I was thinking. Usually didn't buy a new car and pickup the same year. Must have been a good year. Or maybe it was like the time my mom and my dad ran into each other, literally. Dad in the truck, Mom in the car. Wrecked two vehicles at the same time in the same accident. What are the odds?
 
I had a friend, Gary, he was farming, and two boys in high school, well it was during wheat harvest,Not sure where the one by was, but the one that was suppose to haul the grain, wanted to go to the Friday nite football game, during the game the son felt guilty of making dad stop and haul the grain too, so he leaves the football game, and was going to the field,driving to fast, his dad was going home for what ever reason, the two hit head on a hill, smashed both pickups,and Gary has nice stuff, but the Insurance payed! That's was 30 years ago. the boys took over the Farm !
 
The picture of the Deere pulling the 44 plow could have been my dad back in the 50's. Maybe that's why dad always had a bad back! My son has the tractor and plow now so they are still in the family and on the same farm.
 
Probably not the farm--My Dad worked at the Deere factory in Waterloo--He bought a new Ford station wagon every 2-3 years for he hauled 8 guys besides himself to work--they paid him a dollar a day--covered his car payment plus gas---Tee
 
Yes, it was exciting at first, and I think everyone remembers the smell. But I soon grew tired of one wheel in the furrow, one wheel on the land which tended to spin, all the maintenance a moldboard plow required, not being able to get over the ground fast enough, having to work in lands, wasting time on the headlands, and several more challenges. As soon as I could get a tractor big enough, I got a chisel plow, and sold the moldboard plows.
 
No, in 50 years of farming I dont ever recall pulling a plow. This is Sask of course and plows pretty much went out of style by the 1940s. The closest we got to it was when my brother hooked up the big old single furrow brush breaker plow that came with his farm. Used it in the late 80s to break up some dried up slough land tht is now back under water.

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I was lucky enough to start in the '06 era, my gramps had the IH dealership, and originally had a pair of gas Ms and a TD6, a three bottom for an M and a four for the TD6. When the '06 series came out, gramps kept the 706D demo tractor, trading in one M and the TD6, and our neighbor who grew potatoes bought the 806D demo. Gramps started with a 5-bottom "steerable" plow, but switched to a 4-bottom for the second year, as while the 706 would pull the 5 just fine in our dirt, he didn't like to run over 3/4 throttle with anything, so switched to the 4, which the 706 would loaf along with in L4 and not breath hard. The 4-bottom steerable was so easy, hydraulic sideshift on the hitch etc. We got a second 706D, and had a pair of 16' spring-tooth "drags" and a 13' disc, and I got most of the drag work as gramps didn't like getting off with the "stone hammer" when you would pick them up. There was a hidden old equipment yard that had been dozed out of the hillside on one of the farms, and I was snooping and discovered the old 3-bottom trailer plow and also the old 15' drag that had been retired, and wanting to plow instead of just dragging, I asked why don't we hook up the other 706 to that trailer plow and I can help? He got that grin on his face that said be careful what you wish for lol... I got loaned out several time to another neighbor who gramps hired to plow with the 706(??), to pull his 12" drag with his M gasser- just didn't seem quite fair to a teenager... BTW, that 806D pulled 6 bottoms every year and was solid as a rock
 
We owned land on both sides of a state highway. House on one side, shops and barns on the other. Mom was stopped to turn left into the house. A fellow with a medical condition hit her without her slowing down, he then continued across the driveway to the shops and hit my pick up truck, glanced off of it, the corner of the shop and a grain bin and continued out in the corn field about a hundred yards. They said he was dead before he hit her. Totalled mom's 69 SS Impala, totalled my nearly new 72 Chevy pick up. Mom miraculously was not injured. We had nothing to drive except the IHC 1700 grain truck for a week.
 
I've always enjoyed plowing. You are outdoors and nobody to bother you, including a cell phone. I like the smell of newly turned dirt and watching the sea gulls find you out of nowhere. I learned to plow on a 350D with 3-16's Oliver plow. I currently plow mostly with my M and 3-14's.
 
You need to plow with one of Mel's 2 cylinders with
a John Deere plow that pulls the clutch back when
you hit a rock. If your knee is in line with the
clutch, that will wake you up. One of John Deere's
better ideas.
 
Never had one of the knee kickers but heard about them. I had a G and 4-14's Melroe trip bottom. That was a good setup. Hit a rock, which we had a lot of, and you just back up and go again. G pulled it in 3rd gear all day with no problems, well till it needed more fuel anyway.
 
Started out with this same tractor and plow John Deere 4020 and international 550 5x16 semi mount plow . Still have the tractor sold the plow . We had two 550 we usually plowed with the 4320 on and the 4020 on the other
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Started out on a 4020 with a 4-16 full mounted plow, still have both. Later i bought a deere 5-18 semi mount, good plow but it sure pulled hard! Sold it close to 20 years ago and just bought me an Oliver last month.

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All of the late B's I have worked on had square axles. At least from 1950 and up. Isn't 1950 when the A's went to square axles?
 
(quoted from post at 14:02:52 01/26/21) You need to plow with one of Mel's 2 cylinders with
a John Deere plow that pulls the clutch back when
you hit a rock. If your knee is in line with the
clutch, that will wake you up. One of John Deere's
better ideas.
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When I got the R it had the knee knocker apparatus. Dumb old me I thought it was some kind of home made contraption and took it off and threw it away.
 
I plowed with an AC WD-45 and snap coupler plow. It was equipped with a linkage that popped the hand clutch when one hit something solid enough to compress the spring in the snap coupler!
 
Had a neighbor who wanted to make a garden at the end of the drive. He had never plowed before. Had an 8N and a single bottom plow. I came home and the worst plow job I had ever seen was going on. He had kept both wheels on the land. No wheel in the furrow. Did a pretty good job after I straightened him out.
 
Always loved to plow when I got the chance.....(Dad like it to much...lol).
I still have my grandads 3pt, 3bottom Deere and my dad's semi-mount 5bottom 8210. I did , from time to time, get to pull the 2810 with the 4450.
We still use them from time to time for certain conditions.
 
I think it is a late B. The late ones did have a square axle... and if it was a 50, it wouldn't have the power trol pump on the PTO, and the rear light would be on the seat backrest and not the battery box. But what do I know...
 
I was thinking 50 because of the axle housings. But something else didn't look right. I agree on the light. Wasn't the 50 battery box as wide as the seat?
 
I've spent many hours on a DC Case with a #39 IH tumble plow on furrow irrigated land in Northern Colorado. When Dad bought a 730 Case and a two bottom spinner plow, I thought I was in heaven!

Late night plowing and that old DC exaust with a dull red glow. I don't where they came from but the seagulls would line up behind the new furrow for a quarter mile. With a dairy, a lot of good manure was spread on our farm, the neighbors always used straight NPK and no manure. I think that had to do with no seagulls on their land while the earthworms and seagulls on ours were everywhere.

Beagle
 
I never plowed in the furrow till I worked for a guy up in the thumb he plowed in the furrow so they could pull it with wet ground in the fall. 8640 with 7or 8 bottom mounted. Would spin all the way across the field. Claimed the stalks and beet ground had to be done before it froze.
 
SV--Did not know you wore bibs!--Watch that center horse--He has the scours and he has to fart!--Thanks---Tee--DEERE POWER
 
(quoted from post at 20:36:26 01/26/21) Get a rollover plow then you can lean both ways
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I wore out some jeans on a similar rig, JD 3020 with 3 bottom MF roll over. froze in March then dad got a "heater cab" canvas on pipe made it a bit more tolerable.
 
That’s the only rig I haven’t had the pleasure to operate I will I hope someday . The quad track was fun to turn 12 furrows at one time at 5 mph
 
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