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Originally Posted by drcjv

Darrell over the years I have seen several 2182s plowing. I have also seen 1872s and 2072s plowing and they seemed to do fine. I have only used my diesels to plow but a few weeks ago there were a number of gas supers plowing at PA plow day.

Originally Posted by Oak

One thing I found at a pd is when you have a nice clean furrow to work with it makes plowing so much easier. I also found that the Deere guys like to run behind you when you have a clean furrow like this.
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That way they can run right up on you and make their little green machines look tough. Then when you get to the end of the row and motion them ahead of you they elect to stay behind you. I can keep up with the 400 Deere machines on my SGT's and probably my 882. As the others have said, setup is the key to success.

One thing I learned at the pd's I've been to....stay the hell away from Sears machines. The ones I've been behind were horrible.

Originally Posted by nra1ifer

Re: your gauge wheel question..... when you are setting up your plow, the goal is to get a nice clean furrow 5 or 6 inches deep, and the plow share will be running level (front to rear) at that depth... not trying to dig deeper and not trying to come up out of the ground. When it's level like that, the tip of the plow share is able to cut through the dirt like butter. If you can imagine the plow share with the tip still angling down at that depth, somewhere you'll reach the limit of travel on your hitch, but the plow will still be trying to dig deeper and deeper. Your GT will keep trying to pull that, until you can't go any more.

If/when you get the plow set up correctly, the more power you have, the faster you can go. For me, though, it is not a race...... you want to go at a pace where the ground will lay over nicely....too slow and you won't get a clean furrow to travel through on the next pass; too fast .... well, to me it's obvious when you hit that sweet spot of a well-adjusted plow and a good-running tractor where it's not getting beat to death.

I am going to add a link to an owner's manual for a Brinly sleeve hitch plow. It has some good setup instructions and diagrams.

http://www.brinly.com/graphics/manuals/PP_51BH.pdf

Hope all this helps explain it a little better.

Plowing is my favorite part of gardening!...... well..... until it's time to eat the results of the garden....... in between is a LOT of work!

Okay, I'm thinking I was going to deep... It is true I was leaving one of the best clean furrows of the pack... I may not have my plow set up correctly. Todd, Charles and nra1ifer, maybe if you could send me a picture of how you have the pins on the plow or close up of the rear of the tractor... I'd be interested in seeing yours... I did the 4 x 4 trick and had it level and so on... I've plowed 1000's of acres over the years but we didn't use these little plows... I'm going to have to make a point of coming to a couple of the popular plow days down in PA or close to there and see how the "professionals" do it...