Hold on a minute................

I was trying to find out why the Oliver was digging itself in and not plowing. I know that the 77 is more than capable of this 3 bottom plow. I also know that the Oliver has a slight disadvantage because of skinnier rubber. BUT..... I didn't think it would be that much of a difference. Our 77 has pulled this plow many times before. I also spent much of the day adjusting the plow to trail right, and try to get it as level as I could. For the most part I can adjust a trailer plow to work good, but I'm still green with trailer plows. For every adjustment, there is a reaction. I have alot to learn about using them.

I know that there is many variables in plowing, I was just trying to get some info that maybe I was overlooking. For me to post everything I adjusted or tried would have made for a LONG post. How high the drawbar is, drawbar offset, depth of plow, etc, all makes a difference. All I was looking to get out of my post was some helpful hints on how to set it up. Like what works better, high or low drawbar, and things like that.

Sorry if I came across as making it a test of unfairness. I just wanted some help seting it up. I just tried to give the basic info on each tractor. Thanks, Doug

My (formerly dad's, formerly unkle's) Super 77 never, ever would handle a 3-16 here in my soil.

Got red & grey & blue tractors as well, with a different color combine yet. Didn't see your other post, but color war type messages go over like lead balloons around here.

Good luck with setting up the plow, 'here' I'd need to drop a bottom for any hope to make it work.

--->Paul

There was no color war, some thought it was though. Doug N

Kirk

I read my post over and over, and can see that it does kind of look like an Oliver bash. Like I said, I didn't mean it that way. I've plowed with that tractor before with that plow and I was a little stumped.

I love Farmalls too, but there's just something about the Olivers, and dare I say it, the John deeres that I like. In my mind they are all good until it's time to work on them, LOL. Doug N

Some time ago I striped the distributor drive gears in my 130. When it happened in winter I just pulled the complete distributor off SA. Grass time came and I needed SA for mowing, thus I parked the 130 in April with No.1 at TDC on compression. Picked up a used set of gears over the summer, thus installation day happened last week. Got her all together, no starter action, no gas and poor spark. Off to CaseIH I go, as I went out the door, noticed that damn SA carb was leaking again. At CaseIH I picked up carb kits for each, a few points, condencers, rotors, starter switch, some oil filters, etc. Basically my years supply, I always like to keep a few of these on hand.

Right away the 130 cranks like hell, gas is coming, spark is intermitent. Drove down to a neighbors, told him I wanted him to tell me whether I was stupid or just missing something. Back we both come and 130 fired right up. Must have been the neighbor's presence. Not really, it still flutters a bit, doesn't always fire up quick, I've decided it's distributor cap.

Yes, I agree they can be annoying, if you have to work on them. By the way, I like to know how the MD and 77 compare on a hard road pull. Be FAIR, hahaha.

"Right away the 130 cranks like hell, gas is coming, spark is intermitent. Drove down to a neighbors, told him I wanted him to tell me whether I was stupid or just missing something. Back we both come and 130 fired right up. Must have been the neighbor's presence. Not really, it still flutters a bit, doesn't always fire up quick, I've decided it's distributor cap."

That's the way the 77 is, It's fine when the old man is around, but as soon as he leaves it dies.

"By the way, I like to know how the MD and 77 compare on a hard road pull. Be FAIR, hahaha."
That reminds me of when me and my brother, or me and my dad used to "Hook up" out on the hardpack. Two tractors back to back tied together with a chain. We didn't have the MD then, and the JD A usually stole the show. Boy did we have some holes dug. Sure was alot of fun though. I'm really suprised we never broke anything.

Doug N

While dad was away my brothers hooked the Farmall 130 with wheel weights and chloride tail to tail with the DB 990. On hard gravel road the 130 pulled the DB backwards. We knew one secret, dad only wanted tractors that had good drawbar pull for their size. That evening the DB dealer showed up, he, dad and I on the step. My brothers got the 130 and DB out again. Just as dealer got by small talk, got around to talking tractor, Frank and Doug went by 130 draging DB backwards. The dealer was a bit hostile about their doing this with his new demonstrator. Dad was gravely concerned about the ability of the DB. It went down the road next morning. Dad went back to baling with Farmall 300. Next new tractor became the 560D. We continued to buy NH hay and forage equipment, but DB's were never mentioned again.

Alot of people will say I'm nuts, but I go up to the old man's to work on these to relax. Crazy ain't it? We have 9 tractors all together. Not shown is '29 Farmall Regular, '37 Farmall F-12, '42 Farmall H, and a '36 JD unstyled A. Doug N