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Plowing Gear for a D15 Series 1
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Thanks for posting the video Les . I enjoyed it ! Our diesel D 15 came with a snap coupler 3 bottom plow , but we've never messed with it much . 
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Picture of the plow as promised. Wasn't able to measure it.
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Madcow, what part of the state you in? Here in Watertown we just got enough to make the ground white.
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Outskirts of rapid. Not a lot of snow, but nasty drifting where I am.

Drifts form snow "shadows" so leeward sides of everything is covered in snow. But everywhere else it's already melted away.
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Originally posted by MadCow MadCow wrote:

https://youtu.be/LoKa1SQZIGE?si=vPwxzjqwiyaqQKbY

Video of me plowing with it.



Looks like from the video you turning the ground pretty good and doing a good job, No help on plowing speed or gear.
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He is doing a nice job, especially considering he's in the slowest gear in the tractor. It will do an even better job going some faster, when you get on a lean where the right side is "up" and you're trying to roll the soil uphill. That is where speed is your friend to a degree, after having the plow level each way. Just throwing the hand clutch into high side increases the speed from less than 2 MPH to another 35% or so, so the upper 2MPH range. Try it. You'll like it. The engine has enough left in it to handle another gear.
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Hard to see clearly how it's set. Looks like front bottom is moving less dirt. Is it because tread width is off? Plow appears a little tipped to the left but again hard to tell. What I see is 3rd bottom has more dirt coming off the top rear edge than front one. That engine is running pretty free. Load it up!
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Originally posted by SteveM C/IL SteveM C/IL wrote:

Hard to see clearly how it's set. Looks like front bottom is moving less dirt. Is it because tread width is off? Plow appears a little tipped to the left but again hard to tell. What I see is 3rd bottom has more dirt coming off the top rear edge than front one. That engine is running pretty free. Load it up!


The plow is tilting too far furrow side, I think, so it did go deeper. The rear wheel is maybe 4" into the furrow while the front is right against the landside (is that the right term?). The plow was cutting just about perfect, probably could have moved the front tire out a notch, if I remember right it was about 1-2" overlap.

I think the plow being not level side to side properly, and all the worn stuff being too worn as Paul said, and having to set the depth too deep to get it to cut because of that. All led to inefficiencies. As soon as I put it into 1 high it would bog, go about 20' and die. My guess is, because i had it tipped down instead of level, the extra speed made it dig deeper and pull too hard.

Everyone here has me thinking I don't know what I'm doing with the plow more so than the tractor being tuned wrong or lacking power. Which is yeah, very true. I don't know what the heck I'm doing I'm just having fun.

Edited by MadCow - 30 Dec 2023 at 5:52pm
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