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

[Gene Dotson]

    Before it gets too far from the real truth. Yes the left brake is the 
one most abused. The reason being that the land wheel has less traction on 
the undisturbed soil and trash on the surface. The furrow bottom has a 
consistent surface and gives the furrow wheel more traction. The land wheel 
tends to lose traction and start spinning. The only solution is to apply the 
brake on the land side to stop the spinning. Many tractors prevent this by 
running extra weight or a dual wheel on the land side.

                                Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Cook" <ron at lakeport-1.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)


> 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.
>
>