[AT] plowing the garden

[charlie hill]

Cecil you should be able to handle 2 14" plows with ease with the D-12.  I
guess it did handle one plow well!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:06 PM
Subject: [AT] plowing the garden


> There is something about plowing that appeals to me and I had
> a chance to spend an hour at it today. I bought the AC D-12 Series III
> just before I left for the Midwest for the Le Sueur swap meet and had
> not had a chance to play with it too much. It looked to me like the
> single bottom plow I use on the garden would fit the D-12 just as well
> as it fits the JD 40 so I hooked it up and gave it a try. I was quite
> pleasantly surprised to find the D-12 did a lot better job of dealing
> with the rocks in the garden than the JD 40. I guess the Allis is a
> little heavier, has a little more power, a better and quicker governor
> and ignores the rocks where the JD 40 stalls or spins or jumps to the
> side. Anyhow, it was enjoyable and a nice cool but sunny day. I got the
> garden plowed and it looks nice and I didn't break anything.
>
> One thing I especially liked about the D-12 is that it has two
> hydraulic control levers besides the one that lifts and lowers the
> implement. One of these levers controls the Traction Booster which I
> did not need but the other can be set to control the depth you plow
> and just left where it is once set and every time you drop the plow
> it goes back to the pre-set position. The JD can be made to do this too
> - sort of, but depends on a stop on the control lever and only works
> well if all the soil being plowed is the same consistency. Mine is not
> so it doesn't work well at all. The setting on the Allis was not affected
> by changes in soil or by being bumped by the rocks.
>
> So I had a good tractor day today.
>
> Cecil
>
>
> -- 
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> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
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