Getting the rust off a plow

MURIATIC ACID

Wire brush on a side grinder to get the big scale off.

Take it to the field. Spray all the surfaces with muriatic acid and let set a few minutes. Plow a round or until it plugs up and pull it up. Scrape it down and respray with muriatic. Keep repeating the process until it comes up clean without dirt sticking to it.

After you get it good and shined up, to keep it polished, get some of the cheapest silver spray paint you can buy. Make sure it is silver. The silver has enough graphite in it to act as a lubricant and the paint will seal out the moisture. When you are ready to low in the spring just drop it in and go. The silver also makes it look good during storage.

Give it a try it works.

What I need to learn is how to properly sharpen the plow shares. I have read about this in the manuals, but have never tried it. It involves heating the share and beating a new edge on and not removing metal by grinding.

This will make things wear out faster, but generally at this point the share is wore down already...

--->Paul

If you have any sandy soil, make 1 round there & it will be polished enough.

If you have very dry ground, just plow, it will eat up the molboards quick enough, be polished real quick!

The only time it is real trouble is when it is wet & you are in black gumbo or clay.

As the others say, coat with old grease when you park it outside once it is polished.

You could probably go after with with a wire brush wheel, but I would not use anything very agressive. No grinders or anything like that, they leave ridges the wrong direction which will also hang up soil, as well as the plow wears out quick enough, no point in actually grinding metal off yourself!

--->Paul