[AT] Disk Plow or One-Way Plow

[Cecil R Bearden]

I have a depth gauge wheel on the 4 bottom mounted, and it was set at 8 
inches.  I tried the semi mount in the position control on the NH.  A 
lot of the problem is with the tractor being set too narrow.  If the 
plow and tractor are not set to where you cannot tell where the tractor 
passes were in the field, then you fight the "ocean waves" for years to 
come.    I made this mistake when I had to disk this field in 2010 with 
an offset disk that had 2 disks broken in the front.
I finally got he disk fixed last month, but the 2-105 White needs 2 
tires mounted on  it to be able to pull the disk.  With my bad back and 
no help, now that Dad has passed away, I am at a loss when it comes to 
getting heavy projects done.  Here they charge $250/tire to mount 
tractor tires, with a $75 field service fee. I had a flat fixed on my 
930 Case, they installed a new tube.  14 months later that sorry Chinese 
tube came apart at the seam.  I repaired the old tube that came out 14 
months earlier and it is still working fine.  The Chinese one was 
patched and the sun ruined it in 3 months because it was sitting 
outside.  The sun down here will tear up anything rubber or plastic in 
record time.
In OK if you don't get burned or blown away, the hail will beat you to 
death.

Cecil in OKla


On 9/2/2014 11:46 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> 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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