[AT] Disk Plow or One-Way Plow

[Cecil R Bearden]

I am going to sow this field as soon as I can get it ready.  Everyone 
around me has sown their wheat... Any later & no pasture.

Cecil


On 9/10/2014 12:30 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ouch, Cecil you hurt my feelings.  I've been looking for one of those 9'
> Snap Coupler disc for
> years.  Of course it would cost too much to get it to NC from OK so I guess
> I'll forgive you and
> your dad for butchering it up.  grins.  Actually that 9 foot disc is too big
> for what I need.  I really
> would like to have the 6 1/2 foot version of it.
>
> Glad you got some rain.  If you do run the Roto-tiller aren't you at some
> risk of causing
> what soil moisture you have to evaporate?  Just my opinion but I'd run it at
> the last minute
> before I sowed the field.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cecil R Bearden
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 7:51 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Disk Plow or One-Way Plow
>
> Well, Saturday morning, woke up to rain!!!!!!!   Weatherman forecast 1/2
> inch and we received a little over 2 inches.  There was not very much
> runoff thank goodness.
>    While checking on my cattle, I found an old 9ft. Allis Disk that was
> once a snap coupler that Dad & I modified to 3 point.  We never had much
> luck with it on our smaller tractors, and it was cast off in the
> grass.   It had been there over 25 years.   Yesterday I hooked it up to
> the NH TS110 and found 2 JD wheel weights to put on each side.  It was
> about 16 inch disks, with sealed bearings.  The adjustable link from the
> top link to the rear of the disk stripped out after about 4 hours
> running, but I welded a nut on it and went back to work.    We used to
> pull this disk with our 36hp diesel, now pulling it with a 110 hp was
> really hilarious.   However, I double disked it, and it really did a
> decent job down about 4 inches.  It did better than that One-Way I
> bought.   ( Wife was sure to point that out, OUCH!!)  I now have the
> wheat field disked up waiting on additional moisture.   Ran may not
> happen until Friday here, so I may try something else.   Since we got
> the moisture and it soaked in, I was thinking about the 8 ft
> Roto-Tiller.  It would get the soil ready to sow, and then next year I
> could run the Big Ox V-Plow.   I definitely will get the 2470 Case ready
> by next year....
>
> Cecil in OKla
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