Re: Super Chief moldboard

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 07, 2006 at 02:46:37 from (64.228.32.92):

In Reply to: Re: Super Chief moldboard posted by MJD on April 06, 2006 at 22:16:36:

MJD: I like your phrase, "making the earth so ready for planting anew". I do a fair bit of travelling, tend to stick with country roads, as I enjoy seeing farming operations. The one thing I do zero in on is the quality of plowing folks do. My dad always said you could pick out the good farmers by the quality of their plowing. That being the case, and I don't for one minute dispute what he said, "farming has sure as hell gone down hill in the past 50 years". A lot of folks think a plow is nothing more than an instrument to dig up the earth, not so, it is the very first tool used in creating a smooth seed bed. 90% of all plows ever built have the ability to do this, providing one adheres to the speed the bottoms were engineered for. If you could imagine a perfectly flat field, at least in theory, and you had a 100' straight edge, laid it across the field at any angle, every furrow should touch that straight edge equally. That is what good plowing should look like from the highway.

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with no till, however the guys I see doing the very best job with it are still plowing 1 year in 3, 4 or 5. I also see guys out there that had to go no till, their plowing was so damn poor, that in 20 years the field would be so rough, they would have to return to the sythe or sickle for harvesting. So if I drive by your place this summer I will be judging your plowing. Rememeber, I don't need to see fresh plowing either. I just need to see them on the land with tractor at 4 to 5 mph and if he needs a hard hat to keep from hitting his head on cab posts, you know he's doing damn poor plowing. If a man has done good plowing over the years, one should be able to drive the average automobile at 50 mph across field.

I did my first plowing close to 50 years ago with a Farmall H and a No.8 2x14 IH Ace bottom plow. I've never plowed with General Purpose bottoms. The plow I most detested was a No.60, 4x16 with Plow Chief bottoms, and really those are not a lot different than Super Chief other than that damn two piece point and share. It was a knuckle buster changing points and shares, and one would have to wonder why as they wouldn't stay tight once you did get the new set installed. Every set one had to buy 4 shares and 6 points as you knew you were going to loose two points during the life of the shares. The Super Chief has been over the years just what was named, "a Super Chief Plow". Easy to pull, engineered for a bit more speed than some of the older plows. Just about every company had a very close relative of the Super Chief bottom. How much the industry has improved plows in the past 20 years, I'm not sure? Is there a higher speed bottom, I'm not sure? The guys I see out there plowing and creating a nice smooth seed bed for planting anew, are still running 3.5 to 4.5 mph.

Replies:

• Re: Super Chief moldboard Allan In NE 04:29:27 04/07/06 (3)
  • Re: Super Chief moldboard MJD 06:07:48 04/08/06 (0)
  • Re: Super Chief moldboard Hugh MacKay 05:12:25 04/07/06 (1)
    • Re: Super Chief moldboard Allan In NE 05:22:23 04/07/06 (0)

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