Allan: I know your a bit skeptical about all this, however your no more skeptical than my dad and his friends were back in the mid 1950s when the then new MF dealer traveled the countryside with a MF 35 and a 3 bottom, 3point hitch plow on his trailer. IH probably had about 60% of the market in our area back then with Cockshutt, Oliver, MH, Ford and Deere dividing the rest.
We were small farmers back then, just overcoming a drainage problem due to high water table. That first plowing on old meadow sod was hard. Most farmers plowed 20-30 acres with Farmall H, Cockshutt 30, Oliver 66, etc. and 2x14 trailer plow. Most folks just laughed at the MF guy, wouldn't even let him unload the 35. The ocasional guy with a SC or Cockshutt 20 let him in. He did plow 3 bottoms with that 35 and folks soon got a lot of respect for 3 point hitch and draft control. It wasn't hard for us to take every advantage of the 3 point hitch on a 656 or a Oliver 1650. We ran em light with big rubber, and let weight transfer do it's job.
Fields that my dad excerised care where he went with team and mower in 1940, we crossed with semi's by 1960. It plowed easy, sandy loam about 8' deep, then the purest kind of gravel, with a perminant water table at gravel level. It was hungry land, but man would it turn out dry matter yields of alfalfa. Unless it was fixed N one may as well have had a seive.
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