JD A45 Plow
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Bought a few years ago, Finally took tractor and got it. 4 x 16". Needs one mold board, and all coulters replaced to same size.
Supposed to have tail wheel furrow follower, but it should be ok with long angle iron for landslide.- freetown fred
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Nice find W. Looks like she could move some snow!
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Im thinkin yer gonna need some weight on the thing ifn yer plow that ground. And a pile of fertilizer to boot. I could probably spot ya some as everyone says I gotta lot of it
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Ithought you were a farmer,you still can't tell a moldboard plow from a snow plow ? or have you gotten that old age senility thing ?freetown fred wrote:Nice find W. Looks like she could move some snow!
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Nice Find.
I wish I had one. I have a single bottom plow but atlas I have a 10 acre field to plow next spring and 10 acres is a lot with only a single bottom plow! A four bottom, now that would be nice. I did find that a single bottom plow does plow better only because it settles in deeper just because of the dynamics of riding on a single land slide instead of multiple ones, but the USDA recommends cutting only to the depth of the sod. I am not sure I agree with that and drop the plow as low as it will go, but we have high Manganese soil too where compaction is a problem. I want to break that up as much as possible. (We do subsoil every few years as well).
Funny how different places have different soils. Here we cannot use Coulters because the sod will jamb between the Coulters and the plowpoints.
I wish I had one. I have a single bottom plow but atlas I have a 10 acre field to plow next spring and 10 acres is a lot with only a single bottom plow! A four bottom, now that would be nice. I did find that a single bottom plow does plow better only because it settles in deeper just because of the dynamics of riding on a single land slide instead of multiple ones, but the USDA recommends cutting only to the depth of the sod. I am not sure I agree with that and drop the plow as low as it will go, but we have high Manganese soil too where compaction is a problem. I want to break that up as much as possible. (We do subsoil every few years as well).
Funny how different places have different soils. Here we cannot use Coulters because the sod will jamb between the Coulters and the plowpoints.
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Looks like someone ran them hard and then lost some parts in the process. We used to have a set very similar to those, but ours had a tailwheel.
Plowing was one of my favorite jobs on the farm. We had a set of 5 bottom Massey Ferguson plows with hydraulic reset. Instead of springs, each bottom had a hydraulic cylinder that was piped to a small bladder tank mounted on the front. It was smooth and silent, quite a difference from the Deere plows that would spray the tractor with dirt and pebbles when they would reset!
This is the tractor I used to plow with:
Back when I was running it there was a lot less paint on it and a lot more weights. Used to have rice and cane tires on the back, full set of wheel weights, and a full rack on the front. 150 hp at the PTO.
Plowing was one of my favorite jobs on the farm. We had a set of 5 bottom Massey Ferguson plows with hydraulic reset. Instead of springs, each bottom had a hydraulic cylinder that was piped to a small bladder tank mounted on the front. It was smooth and silent, quite a difference from the Deere plows that would spray the tractor with dirt and pebbles when they would reset!
This is the tractor I used to plow with:
Back when I was running it there was a lot less paint on it and a lot more weights. Used to have rice and cane tires on the back, full set of wheel weights, and a full rack on the front. 150 hp at the PTO.
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I always loved plowing as well. It was one of few jobs on the farm where the faster you went, the better job you did.
The John Deere Hydraulic Reset plows were noted for blowing out seals and were never very good plows from what I have heard, but I know nothing about Massey Ferguson equipment as we really did not have a dealer around here that dealt with them. I plowed hundreds of acres with a International Harvester 7 bottom plow with spring trips and I preferred that over the John Dear hydraulic resets because it really did a good job plowing. Here we have a lot of ledge with careful attention to the 3 point hitch control and the tail wheel control, you could really sneak those plow points up onto the ledge and roll the sod over. From there the disc harrow would pulverize it and send it over the ledge allowing corn to grow where it shouldn't (it only takes 4 inches of soil to grow corn!)
My last go around was with a New Holland 8830 and while the 7 bottom was a touch big for its 180 hp, it got the job done.
They are predicting we are going to have 60 degree weather on Christmas so I thought just to say I did it I would mount our single bottom on my Kubota and cut some sod. When else am I ever going to be able to say I plowed ground in Maine on Christmas?
The John Deere Hydraulic Reset plows were noted for blowing out seals and were never very good plows from what I have heard, but I know nothing about Massey Ferguson equipment as we really did not have a dealer around here that dealt with them. I plowed hundreds of acres with a International Harvester 7 bottom plow with spring trips and I preferred that over the John Dear hydraulic resets because it really did a good job plowing. Here we have a lot of ledge with careful attention to the 3 point hitch control and the tail wheel control, you could really sneak those plow points up onto the ledge and roll the sod over. From there the disc harrow would pulverize it and send it over the ledge allowing corn to grow where it shouldn't (it only takes 4 inches of soil to grow corn!)
My last go around was with a New Holland 8830 and while the 7 bottom was a touch big for its 180 hp, it got the job done.
They are predicting we are going to have 60 degree weather on Christmas so I thought just to say I did it I would mount our single bottom on my Kubota and cut some sod. When else am I ever going to be able to say I plowed ground in Maine on Christmas?
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NoSmoke, I grew up on a farm,we never were as modern as many of the farmers around us tho.We plowed many acres with a 2 bottom plow... Farmall H with 2 bottom trailer plow, Farmall 200 (like Super C) with 2 bottom,i believe they were 12" each.I also plowed hundreds of acres with a 3 bottom plow,Farmall 350.. 3- 14"bottoms, Farmall 560 .. 3-16"bottoms.In fact I plowed hundreds of acres just with the Farmall 560 with the 3-16".You should be able to sit in the seat long enough to plow 10 acres with the 1 bottom plow.
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Yeah that is what my father says too but my time is very limited. Granted I got off for the next few months due to knee surgery, but it is hard for a cripple to plow frozen ground!
I was hoping to get by just tilling it under but I do not have a disc harrow. I tried using a spring tooth harrow but the corn stalk residue just clogged it up. That leaves me with buying a $1200 disc at tractor supply and doing it myself with that, saving all my money and plowing it with my single bottom plow to turn the residue over (which honestly should have been done this fall), or just pay someone else to do it.
I would love to do it myself though. at 41 though with 4 daughters, a wife and full time job at a shipyard; everything I do is by priority and not because I want to.
I was hoping to get by just tilling it under but I do not have a disc harrow. I tried using a spring tooth harrow but the corn stalk residue just clogged it up. That leaves me with buying a $1200 disc at tractor supply and doing it myself with that, saving all my money and plowing it with my single bottom plow to turn the residue over (which honestly should have been done this fall), or just pay someone else to do it.
I would love to do it myself though. at 41 though with 4 daughters, a wife and full time job at a shipyard; everything I do is by priority and not because I want to.