[AT] Reactions to pictures posted from Portland

[Paul Waugh]

Soil is a different animal.  We could not go through some of the clay hill 
sides meant 2nd and sometimes 1st. This would be an IH 'M' with 2-16's, 
plowing 8-10 inches deep.  Might plow muck in a higher gear. The IH 'H' 
would not begin the handle 2-16's for very long.  What is hp on an average 
M??  (1946 model)
Paul-46555
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> My MF-165-D high-arch is rated at 52 HP and will pull a 4 x 14" fully
> mounted nicely. My father liked to plow extra deep and he took the 4th
> bottom off but at normal plowing depth it was fine. I pulled 3 x 14"s
> for years along with a plow width drag behind my Super M Farmall. It
> and the S-MTA had over-bore kits in them and either of them or the
> Farmall 400 would handle 4 x 14"s fine in our soils. We have fairly
> deep top-soils here.
> My John Deere 4020 pulled a 4 x 16" semi-mount with no real effort at
> all. I could shift up into 6th gear and throttle back and keep going.
> I couldn't really run it like that because it would foul the plugs
> running so slow but the power was there. About the only thing I had
> that worked it hard was if I socked the chisel plow down about a foot.
> That took about all of 4th gear.
>
>
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>
>
> Be tolerant of almost everything but intolerance...
>
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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