banjo, Jim, Sid, etc.

We have plowed with this hitch using 2x12 IH 3 point hitch plow. I don't have that perfected yet, as I can pull the 2x12 fast hitch plow with less tractor effort. When I get this hitch to the point it pulls 2x12 plow just as easily 1 point or 3 point hitch, then I'll call it mastered. A hitch is a hitch is a hitch once it has learned to plow.

Life cycle should be reversed, one should start off dead, gradually feel better in a seniors home, then get a gold watch and go to work for 40 years, retiring as a teenagers , and having the life savings to really do the teen thing. Of course one knows the end result, as he goes on taking this right through to the beginning. he ended this by saying, " getting old sucks ".

Having not heard from him in 6 months, I wrote back, saying, "glad to hear you are not at the starting gate."

Now that's the cats meow! Nice job on er'! And thanks for posting the pictures. You are gonna give alot of guys on here an idea!

Let us know how she pulls when you get the chance!

Billy

Plowing is the one that is still causing us a bit of grief. For some reason we cant pull 2x12 3 point as easily as 2x12 1 point. I guess I'd have to say probably weather is the biggest grief. We cant get it stopped raining up here thus we are not getting enough plowing days. The part that scares me is maybe those rain days are allowing us too many days to sit in shop and change things. Everyday you get someone come along with a better idea, almost have to chase them off with a stick. Of course I'm right in the middle of some feirce competition plowing guys. they can be vocal. Now I know their originallity rules would never allow a Farmall 140 with a 2x12 3 point hitch plow in competition. Hell, they wont even let me in with 140 and 1 point fast hitch plow, has to be 1958 or older, thus I'd have to use 130.

Let me know how that plow does once you get her struck out and the ground cooperates.

Have a good one!

Billy

Then just about the time folks started combining corn and beans, all hell broke loose and it's been raining ever since. Now, the beans they are combining are shelling bad, moulds showing up in corn. I have 9.2x24 tires on my SA with woods mower, there were beans next to my grass, and in their prime growth, the beans were 6" higher than SA rear tire. Pod counts that were unheard of in this part of the world. Just watching from my yard I can tell yields especially corn are high. The guys working the hardest are the guys hauling the corn from the combine. You see combines ocasionally waiting for empty grain wagons, trucks, etc.

SW Ontario eh? I'll be up in that neck of the woods playing some hockey this year. I'll have to let ya know what I think of the place. Alberta and Saskatchewan have been under my belt for a few years, but I haven't travelled too much into Ontario.

Keep me posted on your project! Thanks again Hugh!

Billy

I have advertized the MF disk for sale, however when I pulled that disk out of a hedge row, much to my surprise it had perfect bearings and excellent heavy gauge blades. I might not be as lucky next time, thus I'm not giving those disk bearings and blades away. When spring weather comes, I will cut the disk down to 20 blade. Just have to shorten and rethread each arbor.

I had hoped on getting in more plowing time, but it seems to rain an 1" per day around here, and now it's starting to get too cold for this old carcass. Got to get one of these southern offset guys with some land to invite me down south for the winter. AZ would seem quite nice to me.