[AT] Healthy Eating, was "Just checking"

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

This isn't one of ours, we had two 4 bottoms like it though We ran it deeper 
than 10 inches. I have seen the ground so tight that the auto-reset would 
trip 2 or 3 bottoms--sounds like someone unloading a 12 gauge. The reason we 
ran auto-reset was due to all the big  rocks. We ran the plows behind two 
4020's and a 4430. No way any of them could have handled 5 bottoms. A 
neighbor pulled 5 with his IH 1466. The fastest we ran the 4020's in the 
field was fifth pulling an offset harrow. On a couple occasions we pulled 
the culti-mulcher in 6th, it was a 12 or 14 ft Brillion. Power wasn't a 
problem, rocks were. I rented a no-till subsoiler about 5-6 years ago. It 
had 8 inch wide points. I could only run it with two shanks and literally 
stopped the tractor a few times as it was, nothing like the front end a 
couple feet off the ground and you have to try to back the subsoiler out of 
the ground. Basically the HP requirement was 45 per shank, I believe I ran 
it in 3rd, possible 4th to get the proper shattering effect on the soil. I 
can go 10 miles east of here and the game changes, few rocks and sandy soil.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 6:31 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Healthy Eating, was "Just checking"

Farmer, do you remember what that show ground at Arden looks like?
That's close to what John is farming.  I'm surprised he could pull 4
bottoms.
No insult intended John and to be fair I've never seen John's farm but I'm
familiar
with that area.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 10:37 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Healthy Eating, was "Just checking"

Our soils must be a lot looser than yours. I ran my 4020 in 5th gear
pulling a 4-16 semi-mount 10" deep... It never had to work at it. In many
areas I could stick it in 6th and throttle way back and it would still pull
it. Of course I never really used it like that but it would pull it OK in
6th.


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