766 -plough match?

My 1066 would pull my 25' vibra shank cultivator at 10 mph, if you didn't mind buying a $35. shank per hour. Planting behind it was like going over waves on water. Thankfully we got that cowboy stopped after 5 acres. It took 5 years to take the waves out of that soil. Saw a guy doing that same thing the other day, cultivator was just bouncing. It would go about 6" to 8" deep then almost clear the ground. Guys like that with too much horse power have made a mess of much of the farmland in North America. I don't know how they manage to get any uniform depth when seeding.

A lot of guys today believe tillage is just about tearing soil to bits and levelling it with a land leveller. We didn't have land levellers in the 50s, didn't have power to pull them anyhow. Quite often today you seed road graders on gravel roads bouncing much like the cultivator I described. Both a case of more horse power than operator is capable of dealing with.

I used to do a bit of custom work in the 70s and early 80s. Fields that I knew a sprayer boom shouldn't hit the ground, but it did. I used to tell guys that I wasn't going to do buldozing for them with combine equiped with automatic header height control and floating cutter bar. Or make graden rows with corn crop dividers. The average combine just has too much traction and power for light buldozing or making rows. A good number of farmers have gone to discbines. Sad part is a lot of them have been bought to grind off the hummocs left by poor tillage. We had a discussion here last spring, one guy was making 8-10 acres per hour with 9' discbine. The rest were all doing 5 acres per hour, exactly the same as I did with 656 and 9' haybine 30 years ago. I suspect that one guy had his fields level, the rest were grinding off hummocs.

I agree with you totally. For any given primary tillage task, the ground ought to lie like a card table.

I get so tickled with these guys who think that they are "plowing" while still leaving those ridges and rows..... :>) What they are really doing is just creating nothing more than a future headache.

Allan

A good 766 should handle atleast 4-16"s in nearly anything. We pulled 4-14"s with a 706D(D282) on the hillsides.

casey

This is probably the worst tractor IH ever sold. I think you should really consider getting rid of it..... ..... .. (Maybe to someone like me?) LOL!

I've heard tales of people pulling 4-16s with 'em. Dunno, I used a IH 314 spinner on mine @ about 4.5 mph in 4-low, if I remember right.

Allan

Had a 706 ger.diesel with loaded tires. Pulled 4-16 fast hitch semimount plow in L4. 4.5mph is about the right speed.

steveormary

4.5mph lays it out there just about right, don't it?

Seems like anything less and you're a leaving "rows" & anything faster is "flingin" the soil. :>)

Allan

Yup