[AT] Plowing

Gene Dotson gdotfly at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 05:56:05 PDT 2015


    This was known as a breakaway hitch.

                    Gene




-----Original Message----- 
From: Dennis Johnson
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 8:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Plowing

Charlie

Snap coupler was on the plow. Not sure of brand.

Maybe my wording is off, but it was a spring loaded device which would flip 
up and disconnect when the plow was pulling to hard.

Thanks
Dennis

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> On Jun 29, 2015, at 5:48 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> Dennis, your Farmall M did NOT have a snap coupler.  That is an Allis
> Chalmers patent and registered trade mark.
> It might have had a quick coupler or what ever Farmall called their single
> point hitch.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Dennis Johnson
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:49 PM
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: [AT] Plowing
>
> Tried to send this earlier, but somehow it never sent.
>
> Many years back I did some plowing when I was in high school. I used an 
> MF65
> pulling a 3 bottom plow, and another guy a bit older used a Case 930 
> pulling
> a 4 bottom plow. I think the 3 bottom plow was 14" long, and the 4 bottom
> plow was 16" long. We were plowing wheat fields in central Kansas about 7"
> deep as I recall.
> Few years before when in grade school, I remember trying to ride on a plow
> my older cousin was using. It was a Farmall Super M, pulling a 3 bottom 
> plow
> with a snap coupler. After coming to a tough spot in the field where the
> snap coupler snapped, plow stopped, and tractor jumped forward it got
> exciting. After the second time that happened, I no longer was permitted 
> to
> ride on the tractor.
> Hand another uncle who plowed a small field using a 8N or 9N Ford. He had 
> to
> put new rings in it each year to make sure it had enough power to pull the 
> 2
> bottom plow. Last year talked with cousin on same farm, and they did 
> no-till
> because it was a dry year, and people who plowed lost too much moisture
> which hurt the crops.
> These are memories that kids today are generally not permitted to have.
> Some day I hope to get that exact Ford tractor. It is parked in a barn 
> next
> to my Buick GN. I also would like to get a MF65 or similar size tractor 
> just
> as a remembrance of long days plowing.
>
> Dennis
>
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