As you learn - and farming takes a lot of learning - when you get that plow set level and you start making the rounds the other way so you follow the furrow, you will laugh at your initial attempts at this! :)
Have fun with your adventure. Keep learning. :)
In the picture, your top link should be screwed much longer. When in the ground, the plow should be level front to back. You can see how tipped up it is, only the points are in the dirt.
Also, it appears you are throwing dirt to the right, with freshly dug dirt on the left dide of you. Perhaps you are finishing up that field, but normally you have the right side wheels in the furrow that was left the previous round, and untouched ground is on your left side.
In dry dirt and or clay soils it can be a challenge to turn over sod the first time, that might pull harder than anything you ever plow again. I know mom and dad had to chain 2 tractors together to break old alfalfa or sod ground, when that was never need in regular fields. This was with 2 or 3 bottom plows and 30-40 hp tractors......
Maybe check some YouTube videos of 'plowing' to see what it should look like.
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