[AT] Plow question

[Alan Nadeau]

As far as I know all the load & depth, or draft, regulating systems get all 
their input from the top link connection.  I think that with a semi-mounted 
plow there is no way for anything to be "seen" by the tractor sensing magic 
since there is no top link used.

I'm not sure you would be all that busy.  From what I remember seeing when 
others were plowing with semi-mounteds, is that lift & lower is done in 
stages.  To get the plow in the ground, drop the front by just stuffing the 
3-pt control down to a preset stop then drop the rear, pretty much as soon 
as you can get your hand on the second lever.  To raise, life the front 
first, then the rear.  Probably not as much of an issue with only four 
bottoms but on the really big plows it looks like that would tend to shorten 
the headlands a bit as well.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 11:44 AM
Subject: [AT] Plow question


>I saw this add for a MF #88 4/16 plow. Would that need a top or bottom 
>draft sensing tractor? It is a 3-pt plow, but it looks like it's semi 
>mounted, it takes a cylinder, so you would have to operate both levers to 
>raise/lower? I'd be as busy as driving an old hand-clutch Cat D2 :-)
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