[AT] Disk Plow or One-Way Plow

[charlie hill]

That makes sense Greg.  In our case it was kind of the opposite.
We had some very good sandy loam that the plow worked 
perfectly in but in the more sandy areas the plow would want to 
go too deep and the tractor would start to loose traction.  The 
Traction Booster really helped most of the time but sometimes it caused
problems.  Luckily it's easy to adjust on the fly.

Charlie


-----Original Message----- 
From: Greg Hass 
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:46 AM 
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com 
Subject: Re: [AT] Disk Plow or One-Way Plow 

Charlie, basically what you say is exactly why we don't use draft 
control. Many of our fields will have everything from heavy clay to blow 
sand in the length of one field. As you point out, the draft control 
does not know the reason for the changes in the draft. I shouldn't have 
said we have never used draft control. We have tried it a couple of 
times for a short time.  However, in the sand it would plow deep but in 
the clay it would raise the plow and plow shallow (this was on a couple 
of three point plows we had; but as I said,we have never used it on 
semi-mount plows). Well, we want the sand plowed more shallow and the 
clay plowed deep which is opposite what the draft control does. That is 
way we have a depth wheel on the side of the plow which we set at the 
depth we want and that keeps the plow close to the depth we want the 
whole length of the field. That being said, we usually pull a plow 
smaller than the tractor is rated for so that we can hold the depth 
through different soil types without shifting up and down or overloading 
the tractor.
    Greg Hass



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