Thank you, Leroy. We plow in 2nd gear here in Michigan's rock deposit, and we disc in 3rd, so this actually is about right for tilling--just mighty slow going down the road and too slow for turning hay. My dad always stressed never plow faster than 2nd gear or you'll spring the plow. They all have hydraulic auto-resets too.
In about 1980 he was plowing with the 80 and five bottoms right along the property line, and the neighbor was plowing with a big International something-or-other pulling at least ten bottoms and a gear higher. They came around the field together and were side by side, and that modern red tractor blew past my dad. The next round they were together again, so my dad shifted up a gear, and his 80 kept right up with that ugly red monster, putt-putting mightily and the smoke a-blowing! The guy kept looking down at him out of his cab, amazed that that old tractor could do it. After he made his point, my dad slowed back down to rock speed. That's still the best plow on the place, because it hasn't been sprung.
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