[AT] Plowing

[charlie hill]

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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