Plowing

[Jeff in Pa]

Great job Jeff showing them the "little tractors" work just as well.

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Originally Posted by farmall fred

I hate when I go to a plow day and people bring a tractor and plow that is not set up properly or they do not know what they are doing and they can only plow 3-4 inches deep. When we plow around here we plow 7-8 inches deep to get all of the trash turned under and buried. It looks to me that you have your Cub Cadet set up right to be able to plow that deep. Looks like you had a great time. Around here you couldn't plow if your life depended on it with all of the rain we have been getting.

I can understand the frustration with a shallow running plow BUT do you offer to help them get it set up correctly? Not everyone has a farming background or the knowledge to set it correctly.

A helping hand would go far to making them both feel welcome and make it a lot more enjoyable for everyone.

[zippy1]

Good looking furrows, you all did well with the 122

[drglinski]

Originally Posted by Jeff in Pa

Great job Jeff showing them the "little tractors" work just as well.

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I can understand the frustration with a shallow running plow BUT do you offer to help them get it set up correctly? Not everyone has a farming background or the knowledge to set it correctly.

A helping hand would go far to making them both feel welcome and make it a lot more enjoyable for everyone.

I know how to set up a Little Genius plow (how to do the string test and set it to a tractor per se not so much) so I get the general idea. One side is depth, other is horizontal adjustment. I've not had a whole lot of experience plowing, but I'm still learning.

That being said, I went to a plow day last fall where the host generously let me use his '54 Super MTA-Diesel and 60 plow-which I absolutely loved and would love to own that set up- and helped his 13 Y.O. cousin out who was plowing. I was following him down the furrow and noticed the Farmall C with a mounted 2 bottom was making a trough about 3 ft wide and not plowing for poo. Come to find out, at the end of the field, his plow was completely plugged and he was trying to pick out straw piece by piece. I knew that the only way to unclog it was to back it up and kick it out. I helped the kid out and explained what to do in the future. I enjoyed that I was able to help someone out with the limited knowledge I had about farming.

[barkerwc4362]

The Super M-TA is a great tractor! Well, except for the brakes. Starting out I followed my Dad across the field with the 1952 John deere B pulling a 2-16 trip plow. Dad of course was on the Super M-TA pulling an IH 3-16 hydraulic plow. I never liked the IH 3-16 plow. It didn't handle corn stalk trash well at all. Like the 13 yo cousins plow, the 3-16 would plug. Neither the John Deere 2-16 or the later IH 4-16 plow for the 706 ever seemed to plug. I cultivated a lot of acres of corn and soybeans with the Super M-TA and an IH 461 cultivator. Turning on plowed end rows was fun with no power steering and marginal brakes. The John Deere B brakes were light years better than the ones on the Super M-TA.

Bill