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    Posted: 16 Apr 2024 at 8:53am
Fifteen of us old guys got together to plow 40+ acres at the local historical farm site called the Brown Farm. My nephew charged the batteries on his drone and got some good video action.   "Red Barn Machine Works" is the internet site.
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Beautiful pictures on a beautiful day. Nice soil you have there!
The green provides a nice contrast as well.
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Great video, brings back memories.  Weights help keep the front end down.  Fun time had by all-nice soil conditions.
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Wish they’d figure out how to capture the smell on video
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Great video, but one thing I've kinda picked up on is that in most videos like plowing or hay mowing, the conditions are near perfect. Try plowing some 20 year old sod or shoulder high rye and then you can see what your plow can really do.
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Alfalfa sod doesn't bother me, as I've done it before without issues. But shoulder high grass might cause plugging problems on that vintage of plow.
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See a tractor do what it was made to do, and seeing it done so well, is really a treat. Slick as snot.

Great work and thanks for the video Doc!
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Absolutely a special treat to watch it done to perfection. I have great soils but none that I can say as plowable as this. Awesome vid Doc!
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It just dawned on me Doc…where’s all the rocks like I have??
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Third gear, low range (fifth gear)?

Loaded tires? Why so much weight on the left tire, but none on the right?

Really nice job of plowing by all!
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In that small area of the field (where we started) I ran low second, which is 3rd gear speed. There were a few rocks in the SE corner and that is why at one point I throttled back a lot because I could see the rocks in the furrow from the pass ahead of me. When I went to the bigger part of the field with much longer runs, I slipped it up into 4th gear speed (low third) which is nearly 5 mph.  Rear tires are half full of fluid as that's what they had in them when I got the tires. Land wheel got an extra 450 lbs on it as that is always the tire that will slip first. Furrow wheel seldom bothers if it is fit to plow. A couple extra 75 pounders on the nose for good measure. Total tractor weight just under 7K.  Traction Booster system with "feed-back" linkage (170-185 feature) works excellent. When I switch back to tractor ride configuration (15.5 x 38's dry and no front weights) it tips the scales at 5300-5400 lbs.

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Wow nice work!! Smile Wish I was there.
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Nice video DOC, obviously got the plow and tractor set up correctly. The overhead shots really show how well both are performing. I enjoy plowing, need to get my new to me 4 bottom set up for my 190XT. Finally bought some pie weights just need to get them cleaned up and painted. 
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Originally posted by Ky.Allis Ky.Allis wrote:

Great video, but one thing I've kinda picked up on is that in most videos like plowing or hay mowing, the conditions are near perfect. Try plowing some 20 year old sod or shoulder high rye and then you can see what your plow can really do.


You can improve your odds by running the brush hog through it first. Then drag the plow

Or, another way ... I have been working at planting into standing rye and when the corn emerges rolling the rye flat into a weed barrier/mulch. Sod needs the plow but after that cover crops and no till.

Plowing is hypnotic and takes me back fifty years.

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My first experience moldboard plowing was in early May of 1966 when I was 12 years old. Dad had taken out a fence between two fields (one sod and the other corn stalks) and wanted to plow the whole thing as one 60 acre field. He also wanted to plow it going around the outside so there were no dead furrows. I drove our wide-front WD-45 and he drove my Uncle's WD-45 with a NF. Both tractors had 70 series 3 x 16's plows. Imagine going around a 60 acre field on the first day !! It didn't look like we did much of anything !! I can still fondly remember the sound of a Nelson mufflered "Power Crater" WD-45 working hard !! PRICELESS !!!

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great video.  drone pilot knows what he’s doing.
Thanks for sharing, Doc.

Once plowed 40 acres of alfalfa sod with the D17 Diesel, starting on the perimeter.
Man, I thought I’d never get done, but sure remember the smell.
2nd low side IIRC.  Nelson muffler turned a cherry red after dark.  
This was back in '65 or so.
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My favorite plowing story.

When I was in high school, my grandfather was still dairy farming. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer and his health was declining. Being the oldest grandson, I was designated to do the farm chores, in addition to going to school and helping Dad what I could on our home farm.

There was a small field, about 3 acres, that had been in corn a few years before. When it was time to cut corn, it was very wet, and the field got rutted up pretty badly. It had ended up being pasture for a few years.

I had spread manure on it during the winter and in the spring, I decided I would plow it up. I took my grandfather's D-15 Series 2, with a set of 3 bottom International plows and attempted to plow the very rough field. Admittedly, it looked pretty rough when I got done.

My grandfather was having a good day and he came out to inspect my work. He walked across the end of the field, shook his head and declared, "I'm glad nobody can see this from the road. You don't know how to plow!" He couldn't have hurt my feelings any worse!

Dad always told that my grandfather did a lot of custom plowing with his 1939 Ford 9N and 2 bottom plows. He walked the ends of the field and marked out his lands. His plowing was straight and the field looked like clapboards when he was done (mine didn't!).

I often thought of my grandfather when I was plowing. I later "learned to plow", but I guess my plowing was never as good as his.
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