A friend has a large 400 plus HP 4X4 CaseIH. He complains to everyone who will listen about that thing sucking down 26-27 gallons a fuel an hour. But when chisel plowing he covers about 32 acres an hour. My 1206 and 4 bottom plow burns 5 gallons an hour plowing on average and I get about 5 acres an hour. My Ford 8N will sip about 10 gallons of gas plowing 6-7 acres, an all day task. SO good question.
For the OP: Unless the tractor is in poor shape why wouldn't it plow like that. Lot of small farms back in the day did all of the work with a small tractor. An AC CA, Ford N, JD M, Farmall Super C, TO-20......farmer back then did morning chores and got on the tractor. Was on that tractor barring breakdowns till evening chores then was back on that tractor well into the night. They didn't expect any better. I can still remember guys claiming that "anyone with more than 100HP was just showing off". THey were farmers and working long hours was what they did without overbuying equipment. As long as you don't have too much plow for the tractor you should be fine.
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