Posted by Donald Lehman on May 10, 2019 at 08:06:37 from (74.78.242.235):
In Reply to: Rough Day plowing. posted by Adirondack case guy on May 09, 2019 at 17:55:30:
Where we are is all granite boulders. The west side of Black River is all limestone/shale base and not very deep. Use to hate plowing that stuff when I did custom work. Hooked onto and brought up a piece of shale once that was about 6 feet by 6 feet. Had a booger of a time getting the plow off that. Had to break it up with a sledge hammer.
Was plowing side of a woods and the front bottom hooked a big old white pine root. It didn't trip the bottom. it just slid up the shin piece and snagged. The tractor just settled down, grunted and snapped that main beam like a twig before I could push the clutch in. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! That stinking root went 60-70 feet out into the field before that darn thing went deep enough to not snag the plow. I cut it off at the snag point with a chain saw, hooked a chain onto it and yanked it up as far as I could pull it, dug down a foot with a shovel and sawed it off.
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