By the time I started doing serious fieldwork, some in '63, lots in '64, Dad had two #8 3-14's with hydraulic lift, one for the '54 SM-TA, one for the '51 M. In '64 I started the spring pulling a 4-14 hyd. Lift plow with the JD R diesel, plowed 40 acres of sod with Dad on the SM-TA and we hooked the R to the other #8 for the rest of the spring. Plowed 50-60 acres and the R disappeared. The last 16 acres I plowed I used the SM-TA & JD 4-14 plow. Road commissioner wanted the R to pull a road drag and run a rototiller to chew up scarified roads. He tore the PTO out of the R every year for 3 years running that rototiller, but the 770 Oliver diesel that replaced the R had no problems in 20 years. I even ran the 770 two years.
Anyhow, the lack of trash clearance on #8 plows was their biggest fault. We tried fall plowing in either '63 or '64, SM-TA & #8. Half mile rows, stalks not disked or chopped. Took 3-4 hours and we were 400-500 feet from completing the first round and it was lunch time. Dad told me to head to the end rows and go home. I made it about 50 feet and the plow is dragging a huge pile of stalks and trips the hitch. Dad hollered at me to keep going, he'd come back later with the loader and pick the plow up and carry it home.
We eventually switched to JI Case pull plows, they compared to IH #70's in strength & clearance.
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