Posted by Bill from Scotland on April 07, 2013 at 02:57:01 from (81.131.84.215):
Its taken a while but I finally managed to get onto my neighbours land to try out my MF 1155 and 880 plow. Its been a terrible season so far, rain and snow much of the time, just never seems to end. As some of you may know the tractor was bought on Ebay a few years ago from a guy in central Nebraska and the plow from a dealership in Ontario. I had someone containerise them and shipped back to Scotland. The tractor had a wrecked engine which I replaced from a MF 850 combine, the plow was resassembled as it needed to completely dismantled to utilise container space. Assembling the plow was heavy but interesting work. I have only plowed twice before once at about 14 or 15years using a Grey diesel Ferguson and a two bottom Ferguson plow and more recently when I built my current house, I used a International B450 and a Ferguson two bottom plow again. The MF 880 is a six bottow semi mounted 16 inch version so just a little different from the fully mounted ones from before. As you can see Ive made a start and manged to blacken the ground a little. I wasnt sure how the 1155 would manage as Ive heard conflicting stories mainly due to soil conditions etc, I still need to make a few adjustments as it plowing a little too deep for our area, she"s down about 10 inches and should be nearer 8 for our area and I think I need to move it a little toward the left as the first furrow is a little narrow. Tractor has lots of power and has grip as well but I think I need to let down the tyres, they are at 15lbs (I use this for road transport). I was thinking about letting them down to 5lbs. Anyway if you guys have any suggestions or advice about how to improve my first results then please let me know. What gear and speed do you plow in your areas?
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