ex farmall: There are vast differences in soils across North America, and it does one good to plow away from home ocasionally. I had some of the easiest plowing known anywhere. To give you a bit of history, my dad started farming in 1942 with a W4 and 2x14, No.8 plow, drainage was not the best in those days. He certainly enjoyed the bigger wheels when he traded for an H in 51.
After that drainage improved greatly and by the end of the 50s we were plowing with Farmall 130 and 2x12 fast hitch plow, or Farmall 300 pulling 3x16, No 60 trailer plow. In the mid 60 we moved to a 4x16, No.60 behind a 560. In 1975, I purchased a 5x16, No.510 semi mount to use behind 1066. The very next year I dualed the 1066 and had other heavy work for 1066. I looked at reducing that 5 bottom plow to 4 for use behind 656, we had it backed into shop ready to make the change. I said to Mike (guy who worked for me, "I don't want to loosen all those bolts, go up on that big hill behind the barn and if you can plow 8" deep on that hill we can pull that plow anywhere on the farm." He did, and 3-4 hours later he had the whole hill plowed. We never did reduce the plow, and never plowed with 1066 again. 656 lugged it along at 4 mph, and remember a 5x16 plow at 4mph will plow more land per day than a 4x16 plow at 5mph, less time spent on the headlands. I might add 1066 once snapped a trip bottom even though it tripped, never had that happen with plow behind 656. Through the 70s and 80s most of my neighbors were pulling 5x16 plows with 60-80 hp, that's all it took in that country. I even had one neighbor pull a 5x16 trailer plow with a Cockshutt 570.
Just to give reasoning why folks should plow away from home. I've had the opportunity to plow in heavy clays of SW Ontario with my Farmall 130 and 2x12 plow. there are spots in this clay very hard, a much harder sub soil that ocasionally comes into plow depth. If I'm plowing in 2nd gear with 130, about 4 mph with 12.4x24 tires, and I strike some of this real heavy clay, it will kill the 130 before I can hit the clutch. Guys who have plowed this soil for years, tell me 4x14 plow was the limit with a 656, and your happy to have TA, and kept your left hand very close to that TA lever. I've also plowed some very light sandy loam with 130, figured this stuff would be close to back home, learned something new again, one spin of a wheel and your axle deep. Now don't jump to conclusions about my opinion on soil quality, some of those heavy soils may be hard to plow, but they hang onto moisture great in a dry year.
Gary may have a bit of overkill with his 200 hp on 6 bottoms, he also may not have overkill. We all know he is in the state of Iowa, some of the most productive land in North America regardless of the weather or the season as in dry or wet.
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