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[Ron Cook]

Charlie,
     I have plowed as you describe and understand using the brakes for 
turning.  But in my hundreds of hours of moldboard plowing, I didn't use 
the brake to keep the front end out of the furrow.  I also understand 
the problem with gravity in the hillside work.  I have worked hills.  It 
takes different equipment, like a hillside hitch.  Or brakes, I guess.
     I can see terrain like that New Zealand stuff from my kitchen 
window.  One slight difference, though.  It is loess and is highly 
erodible. No alot of that gets tilled, but with the high price of corn 
this last year, more was.  No moldboard plows though, and some 
overturned tractors.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 12/30/2012 5:02 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ron, I haven't followed this thread all the way through but around here you
> could always tell a tractor that had
> been used to plow because the left hand brake was worn out.  Here's why.  We
> would lay out our "land"
> by starting in the middle of the field and plowing the first pass for maybe
> 100 feet (depending on the size of the field).
> We would turn around and make the second pass going the other way throwing
> dirt on top of the first pass with the
> furrows on the outside.  We would repeat this until we had plowed roughly a
> square, in this case 100' x 100'.   Then we would start
> plowing across the end, again with the furrow out, dirt thrown on the plowed
> ground.  At the end of that pass we would make
> a 270 deg left hand turn, hard on the left brake, turning out away from the
> plowed ground, around and back into the side furrow.
> Then we would go down that side and across the other end making the same 270
> deg turn at each corner.  That would repeat
> until the field was finished.  The idea was to lay the "land" out to match
> the shape of the field.  In my example it would have
> needed to be a square field.  The result was that the tractor got run all
> day long, making hard left turns at each corner with the
> right brake never being used.   When the field was finished there would be a
> furrow all the way around the outside of the field.
>
> Not sure if that is what is being discussed here but that is why plow
> tractors in NC tobacco country had worn out left brakes.
>
> Charlie
>