Posted by Will Herring on October 25, 2018 at 20:16:10 from (50.106.222.138):
Was going to post this last night but I was too tired to get the pictures and vudei uploaded, lol. So I've had this tractor since like 1996 or so, but I've never plowed with it for more than like 30 minutes or an hour.
So yeah, first time I've even had the plow on in 2 years. I must have done a poor job of cleaning and greasing it.
Took some video of the occasion, as well. Plowing in 2nd gear, WOT. Video Link --> [URL]https://youtu.be/WmttfJdss8U[/URL]
I may not have the plow adjusted quite right. I had to clean the plow for the first hour or two every pass with a shovel, and even at the end of five hours of plowing I still never got the trash boards really cleaned up (they wanted to cling the brown clay really well).
This is the most scoured up I've ever seen the plow, but I feel like I have many hours more of plowing to go before it's really where it should be. Before and after pics.
BONUS:
My actual motivation is because I stopped by a plow day near the Winchester IL river bottoms on 10/20. Here's a couple pics:
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