mkirsch: In the fall of 1975, IH dealer delivered a new 5x16 semi mount for me to try behind my 1066. My dad and another senior both adamant trailer plow guys, I knew couldn't resist two things; namely plowing in a cab and a new plow. Both these men were capable of competition plowing and placing in that competition. If you had asked them before the days of IH lower link sencing, they'd have told you 3 point hitch plow made a good counter weight, doing loader work.
I had about 250 acres to plow that fall, I got to plow 5 acres, need I say more, and those old boys would tell you, "Never a trailer plow built that would match that semi-mount on quality plowing and depth control."
Good draft control doesn't lift the plow. I actually did more plowing with that plow behind my 656 with 16.9x38 tires, no chloride, no wheel weights and 10 lbs air in tires. No it doesn't lift the plow, but on that light tractor (light in relation to that plow) you would swear the seat was going out from under you when that draft control activated. One didn't feel that sensation quite as much on 1066, but you could notice it. Quite sophisticated hydraulics, probably that hitch and hydraulics represent 15% of the cost of the new tractor.
Some competitors hitches did as you describe, in fact IH were the first to nail that and get it right. I was at a farm show not long after I bought my plow, got into a discussion with an ag engineer. He said, "IH has made the first real break through on draft control."
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