[AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

Ron Cook ron at lakeport-1.com
Sun Dec 30 10:07:03 PST 2012


There must have been something wrong with the tractor/plow setup to have 
to ride the brake.  If a pull type plow, either or both the drawbars 
were set wrong.  Of course, to make it easier there is an adjustable 
drawbar that is controlled with a lever or in some instances a hydraulic 
cylinder to compensate.  Much better than riding the brake.  The wide 
front would help a bunch, too.

Mounted plow?  Dunno.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA, where it happens to be flat but the hills are a couple miles 
away.
On 12/30/2012 9:43 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> Hi Chuck.  Yes, I can imagine how a wide front would help in that situation.
> I'm betting your hillside plowing days on the Super H weren't in Dallas.  :)
>
> I did a lot of sidehill plowing a long time ago but it wasn't with an
> M-series or narrow-front tractor...it was on my dad's old Case VAH.  At the
> time I didn't realize it was a high-crop, or that sidehill plowing with a
> high-crop wasn't necessarily the best idea.  It was just the tractor, and
> the field needed to be plowed.  Fortunately there were no incidents.  I
> don't recall having to use the left brake much to keep the front end from
> drifting downhill.  But I sure burned a lot of gas driving all the way back
> around at the end of each furrow; the hill was steep enough I couldn't throw
> uphill.
>
> Years later, on that same hillside, I used my first Super M to rake hay.  No
> trouble then either keeping the tractor straight, but after half an hour or
> so I noticed how tired I was of trying to stay upright in the seat; the
> slope wasn't so steep it was uncomfortable to make a single pass across it,
> but steep enough that after a while it was a pain.  I was glad for fenders
> to rest a stabilizing hand or foot against.
>
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Bealke
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 6:21 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)
>
> Dean,
>
> Looking at your sexy tractor naked in the snow, seeing the "steering
> brake" references and recalling your comments a few days ago about band
> vs. disc brakes jogged an old mind.  I remembered one place where the
> wide front end tractors seemed to beat the pants off the tricycles -
> plowing on hillsides.  It was not uncommon to see Farmall disk brakes on
> the trikes' left side blackened from the heat from riding the brake on
> the side uphill from the furrow after plowing perpendicular to the grade
> for hours. One's left leg got a workout.  On the Super H, use of the
> uphill brake was essential to keep the nose up out of the furrow.  With
> armstrong power steering, front end weight seemed no solution.  Wonder
> if the pounding the trike front ends took over the years from
> occasionally dropping the nose into the furrow contributed to the not
> uncommon bolster shaft failures.
>
> Chuck Bealke
> Dallas
>




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