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Nebraska Cowman

03-31-2006 10:06:16

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Spread the word. No rain here and Plowday is on as scheduled for Saturday April 1st, no foolin'
Featuring John Deere tractors but all makes welcome.

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MJ in theUK

04-01-2006 01:21:54

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-31-2006 10:06:16

Hi Howard and good luck to you all for today. I orginise a few plow day here in the UK so I know about all the hard work that goes into them. MJ

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thumbanger

03-31-2006 16:53:13

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-31-2006 10:06:16

We always used Red to pull the Green JD with the plow, Not a problem

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Janicholson

03-31-2006 12:29:41

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-31-2006 10:06:16

H on 2-14 in clay. not an issue. (sometimes 3rd)
SH was 3rd most of the time.
JimN

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Allan In NE

03-31-2006 10:20:27

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-31-2006 10:06:16

Hey Howard!

Would you do a grumpy old man a favor since I can't be there?

The smallest tractor I've ever seen on a plow was an old '37 John Deere A pulling a one bottom two way plow. This way way back in about 1949 or so, was my dad's first tractor and I can remember it just workin' the snot out of that tractor.

I keep reading on here of people plowing with a Farmall H. I just cannot imagine that; my mind just won't let me go there. Can't understand an H havin' the gumption to yank a plow thru the ground.

If you should by chance have such a rig tomorrow, could ya maybe take some pictures of it?

Thanks,

Allan

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VernMN

03-31-2006 23:58:46

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

My dad used a 44 H on a JD 2x14 plow from 46 to 54 when he bought a M. That H sang a sweey song but handled the plow well. I have the old girl now and she still pays her keep.

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Dellbertt

03-31-2006 19:41:25

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

With a JD A or a Farmall H, we did an acre an hour pullin 2-16.

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1206SWMO

03-31-2006 18:27:45

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

Back in the 1950's a family near us farmed 640 acres (not all tillable) with an H Farmall as their big tractor.It was run 24 hours per day in the spring.

At the 2002 Red Power Round Up in Penfield,ILL I saw an H on a 3x14 plow.I'm sure it wasnt stock.

All H's in this are pulled 2x14's nicely.

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john d

03-31-2006 14:10:37

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

A good Farmall H will pull a 2-14 trailing plow through almost anything in central Indiana in 2nd gear at 7" or so deep. Plowing through last season's cornstalks, an H will do a lot of it in 3rd. I still have the '43H that my Dad bought new. It was the only tractor he had while farming 120 to 160 acres until '52. Of course crop rotation was different then, and there might have been only 80 to 100 acres of the being plowed each year.

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donald schnupper

03-31-2006 12:44:25

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

got to thinking we farmed about 250 acres with it.spent allot of hours on the seat. don

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donald schnupper

03-31-2006 12:37:15

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

Thats all we farmed with from 1947 till we got a super m 1n 1952.pulled a two bottom ih no 8 plow.

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CNKS

03-31-2006 12:25:48

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

Allan, as you know the H is a "2 plow" tractor. We used a 3 disk semi mount "breaking plow" -- HM 150. Disks have less draft than a moldboard. Thus a 3 disk plow is equivalent to a 3 bottom moldboard plow (don't ask me the size of the equivalent moldboard). 30 something inch disks. Otherwise the H pulls a two bottom moldboard. Cutting width about 2/3? a tractor width. 5-7 acres/day if I remember right. 2nd gear about 8 inches deep, if the ground was soft enough. Spent many hours/days doing that -- note I did not say pleasant days. Always glad to get the thing off and begin pulling a disk to break up the clods.

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the tractor vet

03-31-2006 10:46:57

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

A few years back we sorta had a plow day where we did a bunch of plowen at Eugene's place with his dad's old J D A Dustys H and my S/H now mind ya my S/H is in need of a major over haul that i just have not got around to as of yet that a buddy auctioneer found for me out Kev's way and brought it to Indy for me and it had writen all over it DO NOT START NO OIL PRESSURE in yellow marker well since ihave spent to many years driven truck and everybody knows that truck drivers can't read i started it and drove it on the trailer and ya know what it did not have oil pressure got it home fired it up and drove it off the trailer and went and checked the oil and it did not have much in it as it took a gallion and a half to bring it up , started it back up and It had oil pressure all the way to the peg well we have just kept running it and that day we cleaned the carbon out of her with a set of 3x14's behind it and it would haul them in second most of the time unless ya got on one our littel hills then it needed to be a S/HTA as there was a total lack of about 10 poney to make it up and over . Over here there was alot of farms in the 100 to 165 acres that the H was the big tractor back when i was a pup and if ya had a M or a A JD or and OILall over 88 you were one of the big boys .

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Red Dave

03-31-2006 10:33:15

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:20:27

2 Bottoms, No Problems

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MJin the UK

04-01-2006 01:18:29

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Red Dave, 03-31-2006 10:33:15

Dave what a fantastic picture. Were in your big country are you working that wonderfull outfit.I have an unrestored 1945 H with liftall equipment but no electrics wich I am taking on a 35 mile tractor ride tommorow along with 120 other guys and a few lady drivers as well. MJ

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olderguy

03-31-2006 19:08:39

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Red Dave, 03-31-2006 10:33:15

Looks like the left foot is ready to grab another gear. Question is what gear... up or down?

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Roger46

03-31-2006 18:45:34

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Red Dave, 03-31-2006 10:33:15

My dad used to farm over 300 acres in So Dak with a Super H and an H. We didn't do much plowing as we used a lister to plant all the corn. But when we plowed, we pulled either a 2-16 or a 3-14 plow with the Super H. I remember spending days plowing a 50 acre field. You would plow all day and it didn't seem like you made any progress. The main problem we had was plowing alfalfa. We had some fields that had a lot of clay and we hooked the H to the Super H with a chain with a tire in between to take up the shock. Labor was cheap back then. After I left home he bought a 656 diesel so he could farm more faster. Roger

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Allan In NE

03-31-2006 10:37:48

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Red Dave, 03-31-2006 10:33:15

My Gawd!

What a picture! Where is that? Back east somewhere?

What are they? 12" bottoms? Can ya get 'er to go in the ground very deep?

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Allan

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BillyinStoughton

03-31-2006 13:42:54

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:37:48

Hey Allen, here in southern Wisconsin, we have plenty of top soil...and my 52' H pulls two 14's without so much as an issue. And actaully does it in 3rd most of the time (though there is some 2nd gear clay out there too).

Thanks for the help on the 544 too! Synchronized the governor with the carb and she's run like a champ since. I owe ya on pardner.

Have a great weekend!

Billy

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Red Dave

03-31-2006 10:48:59

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:37:48

That photo was taken in 2004 at Kinzers, Lancaster County, PA.

It's an H pulling a 2 Bottom McCormick-Deering Little Genius Tractor Plow #8. An H will pull a properly set-up 2 bottom plow as deep as you can set it. Of course, this is also good Eastern Lancaster County topsoil too.

I should also note that I didn't take the photo. It is from the Rough & Tumble Engineers Historical Association website.

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Allan In NE

03-31-2006 10:53:57

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Red Dave, 03-31-2006 10:48:59

Well,

I swear, that's one of the nicest pictures I've ever seen.

I guess it really makes a difference where you are farming; I can just hear that H a singin'. :>)

Thanks Buddy!

Allan

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Dave BN

03-31-2006 11:15:15

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Allan In NE, 03-31-2006 10:53:57

I pull a single bottom 14" with my BN and with my C. My ground is real heavy and it makes the BN work real hard but the C pulls it easily. Dave.

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Harley

03-31-2006 11:37:51

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Re: Wellfleet Plowday Saturday in reply to Dave BN, 03-31-2006 11:15:15

Allan, before dad could finally afford an M he farmed 120 acres with an H and 2-14 for about 10 years. It took forever going around a 40 acre field, but he didn't know any better. Probably as much ground turned up there in Iowa with an H as there was with anything after the War. It was what the guys could afford and it beat 3-4 horses. It would also handle the 2 row planter, 2 row cultivater, 7' cycle bar mower, hay rake, and just about anything a guy needed to farm with. Harley

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