I have a Farmall A 1944 with a home made snow plow and mount that came with it. I'm trying to figure out how it was made operational. I have the mount attached to the tractor as per the drawing I received in this manor: Two bolts to the back draw bar (I call it the draw bar seems logical). in the front there is a "mast" which is attached to the square hole that the cultivator arm might attach to). To that is a block and tackle (block/fall) system which runs to the back of the tractor on the right side of the mount. The front is lifted with a two point cable mounted to the front of the plow mount. I haven't attached the blade yet because it seems easier to lift just the mount while figuring out the hard part. The drawing mentions a spring assist. I have a handle with lever attached to the floor of the tractor on the right side next to fender. It has a bar attached to it running toward the back with a hook at the end. I attached the land plow mount to the back of the tractor. At the end of the wire rope running from the block and fall is an attachment that came off another land plow arm. That attaches to the land plow with cotter pin. I can't figure out the connection from the lever to the land plow mount which would in turn lift the front of the plow. There is no spring attached to the lever. Spring assist is mentioned in the drawing. It doesn't make sense to me (after several trials) too hook up a spring to the plow mount via the handle already mounted on the tractor to make the action needed. I have a larger two handled lever system that appears to mount under the tractor body bolting to the two bolts just on the other side of the battery box. The other side has no attachment points. These springs lift up when activating the handles. Could this be the spring assist mentioned in the drawing? This other handle set in addition to having a single mount has two bars that appear to be of the right size to mount in the plow mount brackets on the back of the tractor. Now that I have totally talked around and around, does any of what I described sound familiar? I could upload some pictures of the set up if I could figure out how to put them on this site. Thanks, Al
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