[AT] Disk Plow or One-Way Plow

[Cecil R Bearden]

I need to find a disk plow or a One-Way or Dry land plow.   This summer 
I allowed an oil field services company to apply water based drilling 
fluids on my wheat field.  I had chiseled this ground about 2 weeks 
earlier.  This field had been in no-till for 4 years. no-till here has 
not produced any winter pasture.  I also have an abundance of tickle 
grass and Silver leaf nightshade.  The drilling fluids killed the 
nightshade.
I now need to turn everything under, not just disk it and mix it up.  
The company appears to not finish this job as they were supposed to disk 
the field afterwards.  Since this company also ran their heavy loaded 
trucks over the field while it was wet and tilled up, I now have a 30 
acre concrete pad for a wheat field.  However, when wet it is as slick 
as snot on a glass doorknob.  This stuff has to be turned under and done 
within a month to get the wheat sowed.


It appears that disk plows have been sent to Mexico, and One ways have 
been scrapped.  The D$#%^ scrappers have really screwed up finding 
machinery in this country.
I have a 4 bottom 3 point plow that I hooked up to my TS110 New 
Holland.  I now realize that I needed to widen the tractor wheels to fit 
the plow.  The front plow bottom kept shearing the pin.
I may have to drop off the last moldboard and plow with 3 bottoms 
because I don't think I can widen the tractor wheels enough to pull the 
4 bottoms.   I also need to find plow shins for a Massey Ferguson plow.  
These were welded up and are now worn out.

I had bought a John Deere 4-16 semi-mount plow, but it does not use a 
top link, and  my NH tractor uses the top link for draft control. My 
other big tractor with draft sensing on the lift arms ( 2-105 White) has 
severe leaks on the lift cylinders, and the lift arms were taken off.  
My 7030 Allis has not been used in 3 years and the A/C needs to be fixed 
as the cab is just too small to drive without A/C.  And to really make 
things tense, I am still baling hay.

My large field of hay (140 acres) that had a lot of clover in the 
Johnson grass is now wilting.  The Hydrostat drives on the JD 2270 I 
bought this spring and worked on for 3 weeks, wore out and I had to find 
a salvage one.  I hitched up the 1340 Hesston that had the drive shaft 
problem last year, and built a transition plate between the outlet chute 
and the crimper.  It now makes a good windrow, but when I shortened 
square male shaft on the machine end of the drive shaft, It is now about 
2 inches too short when the machine is swung to the left of the tractor 
all the way.  The tractor also has the wheels spaced too narrow and runs 
on the windrow when making the next cut.  This creates some loss when 
the baler picks up the windrow.  I also an having a problem getting the 
1340 to cut higher.  This is a rotary cutter, and I have spaced the lift 
cylinders up to raise the cutting height, but not high enough yet, I 
have run out of cylinder spacers.  This creates some dust in the hay.   
Since I spent so much time at a neighbors field helping him get it cut, 
my hay is now going to be cow hay and probably lost over 60% in volume 
and quality.

Since Dad is not around any more, I need some advice and some help. I 
really did not know how much help my 85 yr old father was giving me.  I 
sure do miss him.....


Cecil in OKla