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Okla/Kans Bill
04-27-2003 19:32:37
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Re: How to use a trailer plough? in reply to SAm in NS, 04-27-2003 13:24:03
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When starting out on a new, non plowed field, lower the furrow wheel, the one on the right standing ehind the plow by raising the lever on that same side. Do the same with the other lever. Put the right hand lever 2 or 3 notches higher than the left side lever and try that. You should have a 25hp or so tractor for 2 14s. To tell what size plow youe got measure the landslide on the right hand plow share to the tip of the plowshare on the left hand side standing behind the plow. It should be either 12/14/ or 16ins apart, which tells u you have a 2-whatever distance between the two botto pull type plow. If you set the levers too high the bottoms will be too deep and the tractor wont pull it, or ave a hard time pullikng it and heat up quickly. If the field hasnt been plowed in 20 yrs, you might double disc it first with weights on the disc and wait for a good rain and then after it drys try plowing. NOW. The front furrow wheel of the plow (the right hand one standing behind the plow) is your furrow wheel. The inside of it should line up with the inside of the right hand rear tractor wheel. to do this, get them both in a straight line. place a board against the right rear tractor tire. the board has to be long enough to extend somwhat past the right rear furrow wheel. If the board touches the furrow wheel, then its lined up right. If not, youll hneed to do some adjusting on the hitch. BUT, if you have a 40s tractor, which I do not, then you can adjust the rear wheel to line up with the plow wheel. To do this, do as the above, but line the board against the furrow wheel and see how the tractor wheel lines up, if it dosent, you will have tojack up the tractor and adjust the right rear wheel. Use twist clivis just big enough to gt the hitch to go into it easily. any bigger and it will always be popping out when backing up and going again. If, when you trip your plow, and it goes up and down, then, #1 you might have put too much greease in the zerk for the trip mechanism. 5 shots a year is good. 2, the old grease is caked up and dry inside and wont let the trip cam enter the slots to hold it up or down. If this is it, you will have to take the wheel off, and then the trip mechanism and clean out all of the old grease. While doing this, you should look at the 2 little springs in behind a circxular plate. One olf them could be busted. If so, replace both of them. Hope this helps. Be careful when backing up very far as you could brake the rear wheel, or that the plow will tip over. Use a trip rope with enough length that when the plow is tripped the rope sags 1/2 way down to the hitch. fasten the rope to the plow by a wire that will come undone if the plow disengages itself from the tractor. I use 5 strands of bailing wire, twisted together to look like cable, about 1ft long. One end I hook into the holes (2) of the tractor seat. the other end I make a hook out of, and tie a knot in the rope so that the hook has somthing to hold of the rope. Then, if the plow disengages, the knpot will pull on the wire which will straighten out and release the wire. Alwys watch your plowing, especiall in trashy fields as the plow will bog up and youwill have a heck of a time getting it ceaned. Make sure that the moldboard and shares are polished clean bewfore you start as this will go some in eliminating bog ups. Clean after using and paint with polyurathane.
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