Super Chief moldboard

mjd

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with no till, however the guys I see doing the very best job with it are still plowing 1 year in 3, 4 or 5. I also see guys out there that had to go no till, their plowing was so damn poor, that in 20 years the field would be so rough, they would have to return to the sythe or sickle for harvesting. So if I drive by your place this summer I will be judging your plowing. Rememeber, I don't need to see fresh plowing either. I just need to see them on the land with tractor at 4 to 5 mph and if he needs a hard hat to keep from hitting his head on cab posts, you know he's doing damn poor plowing. If a man has done good plowing over the years, one should be able to drive the average automobile at 50 mph across field.

I did my first plowing close to 50 years ago with a Farmall H and a No.8 2x14 IH Ace bottom plow. I've never plowed with General Purpose bottoms. The plow I most detested was a No.60, 4x16 with Plow Chief bottoms, and really those are not a lot different than Super Chief other than that damn two piece point and share. It was a knuckle buster changing points and shares, and one would have to wonder why as they wouldn't stay tight once you did get the new set installed. Every set one had to buy 4 shares and 6 points as you knew you were going to loose two points during the life of the shares. The Super Chief has been over the years just what was named, "a Super Chief Plow". Easy to pull, engineered for a bit more speed than some of the older plows. Just about every company had a very close relative of the Super Chief bottom. How much the industry has improved plows in the past 20 years, I'm not sure? Is there a higher speed bottom, I'm not sure? The guys I see out there plowing and creating a nice smooth seed bed for planting anew, are still running 3.5 to 4.5 mph.

Yes, I agree with what you say; every darned word. Normally when you're done, the field ought to look like a pool table.

However, every once in a while a fellow has to tie into something like this mess. At this point, worrying about what the neighbors think as they drive down the road in their air conditioned cars is mute.

Just tryin' to figure out how to make it to the other end totally consumes yer brain. :>)

Allan

It only takes a short time to create a mess, but years to correct it. I remember once being short handed, hired a cowboy to operate 1066 with 25' cultivator. My lead hand checked on him 1/2 hour into his cultivating, very lucky I might add. He was making 11 mph with cultivator bouncing. It would go full depth, then spring up practically out of ground. He had only made 4 rounds, that is the good part. What he had done, if you could imagine, felt like driving on solid waves on 6" seas, driving on it with pickup. Two seasons of tillage later you could still feel that when driving on it. By the way he had also broke 4 cultivator shanks in that 1/2 hour.

I currently see a guy not far from me, trying to get an abused field back in smooth condition. He'd like to be doing no till, but it's just going to take some more conventional tillage to smooth that out. Lets face it, there are guys out there can make plowing look like they used a D8 with a ripper.

I just want to go out there, stop him, take him by the shoulders and shake him. No sense to that kind of behaviour.

Allan

mjd

The first model 60 and 70 plows had Plow Chief bottoms. They were only used for roughly 5 years then all new IH plows including 60 and 70 came with Super Chief bottoms.

Yes, all Super Chief plow wear parts are available at CaseIH.