Western NY fall plow day - Sunday Sep 25

Last year we had Farmall, Oliver, Cockshutt and MM tractors working alongside the 2 cylinder machines. (Punch below for a few images from 2004.)

Plowing will be at Stokoe Farms Pumpkins, South Rd about 2 miles south of the village of Scottsville. For a detailed map copy/paste this:

http://www.stokoefarms.com/pumpkins/directions.html

Bring your tractor and join us, or just come and enjoy watching old tractors at work!

• Western NY Plow Day 04

I pull 2x12 with my little Farmalls 130 and 140 plowing 6 to 7 inches deep, even in heavy clay. Back on the farm in Nova Scotia my soil was a sandy loam, thus I really never had difficult plowing. I pulled 3x16 trailer 8" deep with Farmall 300. Then went to 4x16 behind 560D. Then even later to a 5x16 semi mount to use behind 1066. Never used it a whole lot behind 1066 as we dualed the tractor and had some real work for it. Pulled that 5x16 semi mount for years behind 656D and at a much lower cost per acre plowing.

My neighbor pulled a 5x16 Oliver trailer plow behind his Cockshutt 570D. Somewhere in the order of 52 drawbar horsepower. Plowing at 5 to 8 mph will only increase the costs per acre, may as well add bottoms and drop to 3-4 mph. Most combinations I've seen the slower speed and more bottoms plow the same acerage per hour.