Problems plowing

[Wild Bill]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

I'm sorry Wild Bill, but I disagree with most of your advice....

I've pulled a plow longer than 10 years, and more than one bottom. From one to six bottoms. Spent a lot of time pulling a disk too. Your advice to keep the gangs straight is way off. It's not a cutter, it's a disk. It won't "slice" anything with straight gangs. They have to be angled. Matter of fact, the Brinly disks wont' angle enough to do a good job.

On the cutter..... it's job is too cut the sod so that it leaves a nice furrow edge. It has nothing to do with keeping the shin from wearing. No need to move it up on the first pass, then down on the third... I don't even know where you came up with that. In sod, the cutter needs to go deep enough to cut the rood wad. Maybe 2" deep. Only thing I don't like about most of the Brinly's is you can't adjust it left and right. I'm going to mod one so I can.

Disagree all you want.

Brinly implements are not farm implements...they are way lighter, and don't pull themselves into the ground because of their weight.

Unless you weight the hell out of a Brinly disk (especially a single gang) it WILL NOT CUT, especially on freshly plowed sod! Even when a Brinly is 'straight', it is angled. If you hook 2 single Brinlys together, and angle both of them as much as you can, they pivot in the middle and will wiggle and walk all over top of the plowed sod....(and yes, I know what is the correct way the disks should be going for the front and the rear gangs) First hand experience showed me that..(tried setting it up like my big disk)..so like I said, disagree all you want.

My comments about the coulter wheel came from my IH plow manual.....but what did IH ever know about how to make a plow work....... You are supposed to adjust the coulter so it cuts just to the left side of the lead edge of the shin, to cut trash and to help keep from wearing out the shin (added benefit is the landside of the furrow is smooth). IH Super Chief plows have replaceable shins.

Tough ground/sod/ground that hasn't been plowed for YEARS, if ever...a Brinly plow either won't 'suck in', or will walk itself up/out of the ground. Seen that first hand at a Cub Cadet plow day. The ground was a rock hard hay field. The first tractor to make a pass was a 169 with a 10" Brinly...looked terrible he had a boat load of point cranked into the plow, it would go in...for a foot, then pop up and down like a sewing machine. I was the second tractor to make a pass, I had my 12" plow set up like I have described, and had NO PROBLEM. Guys were cutting in line, to plow behind me because of the nice/smooth furrow they could drive in. I was behind a guy with a JD 420 with Cat 0 12" Brinly on the back....I had my 1450 with a sleeve hitch 12" Brinly (everyone else there had an 8" or 10") Several times I had to stop and wait on him, because he jumped the previous furrow/got hung up, etc. I asked him if he wanted me to to push him through the field. The JD owner put somebody else on the tractor, and on the next pass he ran and jumped on my plow to try to bury it, and get me hung up...I just hit the hydro handle almost dumping him off, and finished the pass with him still on the plow. I was plowing so deep the guy behind me got hung up because the center of his transaxle was dragging. A couple of passes I was behind a guy with a 782 with a 10" Brinly....more than once had to come to a stop, and wait on him backing up and slamming forward/stuck. The JD is a 20+ hp tractor, and the 782 is 17hp... The 14hp -single cylinder- was tired,and the throttle shaft needed a bushing, and I didn't have a problem with a 12" plow, but hey, what do I know.............

I've been around the block a few times dude. When I plow a garden it is a piece of cake, and the end result is smooth/level. I've had a 10 year old kid plowing on that 1450, and even had my 78 year old Dad, 74 year old Mom, and my sister, and my wife, plow with the 1450 and my 1712, they all said it was fun and easy....and the results are always the same.

I would gladly post pictures to back up my statements, but they were lost when the computer died... either a virus. a hacker, or whatever. Happened right after all of my posts and threads got deleted on OCC.

Don't know why you're trying to bust my chops, but it ain't gonna fly with me.