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

[charlie hill]

well Ron, I've got 2 plows, 7 tractors (only one running right now)
and a small farm but I haven't been hooked to a plow in over 20 years
and that was just to move it.  I hope my health and good fortune hold
out long enough for me to move back to the farm (only 25 miles away)
and do some farming just for fun one day.  Right now it's not practical
and barely  even possible for me to do so.

When I was a kid the old guys wanted to cut their furrow as deep as
a small Coke bottle (6 1/2 oz bottle) is tall.  I always like to plow just
a bit deeper.  Our top soil is generally only about 8 to 10" deep.  I liked
to plow so that every once in a while I kicked up a bit of yellow dirt. That
way I knew I was turning all of the top soil and mixing in some of the clay
sand to (in my mind) improve the mix.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Cook
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 9:26 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Super Ms, Ralph Video. disc brakes etc.)

Charlie,
You absolutely hit the nail on the head with this posting.  I really
would not want to subject one of my fields to plow day plowing.  It just
might take years to straighten things out.

Of course, I don't have any fields.  But I do have 5 plows.:-)

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 12/31/2012 7:30 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Gene,  my guess is that the guys at the plow days don't have their
> tires loaded with water or fluid and probably don't have wheel weights.
> Not arguing your point at all but my experience with plow days is a bunch
> of guys that would have been laughed at in the field in 1962.  Their plows
> are generally not set up correctly and the tractors can't get any 
> traction.
> Even the ones that are properly ser up are running in a furrow cut by a
> different plow
> that might not be properly set up.  If the furrow isn't cut straight 
> walled
> and deep enough
> the tractor won't track right.
>
> Charlie
>

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