Deere had an attachment that disengaged the hand clutch on the tractor when the trailer plow hit an obstacle. The plow tongue was spring loaded, so the plow would drop back, pulling a chain which snapped the hand clutch back with a snap. Tractor operators's knee then stopped the clutch handle in it's rearward travel. Most of those were disabled soon after. Did I mention that most often, the plow point was broken anyway?
A few years back, my son was plowing in a field that had been under cultivation for many years. Caught the plow, on a rock. jerked to a stop. Got off the tractor grabbed a shovel and started digging around the stone. Stoneturned out to be shaped like a big russet potato on end, with a ledge on one side at the top. We found several broken plow points onder that ledge. Some were not from my dad's plow, that he used from 1947 till he retired in 1970. I would have recognized the distinctive plow points that it used. So that rock had been giving farmer's fits for more than half a century! We finally dug it out, pulled it off, leaving a hole 5 feet deep. No wonder it wasn't moving!
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