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CNKS: While I see your point, I think as you suggested below, it that hitch is kept tight a two bottom plow will not bother the H castings a whole lot. I once took a broken cast front wheel off a 300 to a welding shop. First thing shop owner said,"running with a front wheel loose, you know there is not a man alive, tough enough to stay on a Farmall long enough to break any castings as long as they are tight." He was right the wheel had been loose. Over the years since I've seen numerous broken castings on Farmalls. Other than the ones broken in collission situations and towing A's and C's, etc by front axle, I would have to agree with him. I have made a point of looking since when I see broken castings, and yes, I must agree other than exceptions I mentioned above I could readily see castings had been loose. As for our friend plowing with after market 3 point on the H. He's not plowing half the county. His top link should give him good depth control. On the draft control end, he will not really need it pulling 2 bottoms with an H. A gauge wheel on plow will help. One has to remember when those H's were new it wasn't uncommon for guys to plow 50 to 150 acres per year with a two bottom little genius. I once built a logging winch on the back of a Farmall 300. This clamped around axle just as the after market 3 points do. It was also placed high enough to lift slightly on logs, thus keeping them from digging in. A lot of the trees we pulled with this were 60 to 75 feet long. The load was winched in and pulled by the winch cable to destination. On turns with Canadian ring chains on tractor, I've seen these loads weighing up to 5 ton slide the rear wheels of 300 sideways 6'. We ran that on 300 for 5 years, modified it and mounted on 560. I think the 560 probably took a worse beating as it would pull almost twice the load 300 would. We never broke any castings.
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