I have been looking for a plow for my 450 and was wondering how to tell the size. For instance a 4x14 plow, I know the 4 bottom part, but where does the 14 come to play? Is it the spacing between the moldbourds or is it the size of the moldboard itself? Thank you for your help?
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Farmall Bob
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Hi BigJohn
The 4X14 plow, you are right about the 4, it is a 4 bottom plow. The 14 means 14 inches width of soil that it will turn over with each plow.
Bob
The 4X14 plow, you are right about the 4, it is a 4 bottom plow. The 14 means 14 inches width of soil that it will turn over with each plow.
Bob
Hugh MacKay
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John: Both, the parallel distance the beams are from each other, plus all bottoms are not the same size. For example a 12" bottom probably could not be used as a 16" bottom. Most bottoms will do two sizes, but that is about the limit.
Here in Canada the IH plows built at Hamilton had adjustable width plow beam frames. For example my one point fast hitch 2 bottom plow. Frame can be set at 10", 11", 12" and 14". My bottoms work fine on 10", 11" or 12", but not 14". There is a larger 2 bottom frame, can be adjusted for 12", 14" or 16" bottoms. You'll get the same in 3 and 4 bottom plows. Most plows larger than that are usually 16" only or 16" and 18". I expect there are about 4 sizes of bottoms to cover every size from 10" to 18".
Here in Canada the IH plows built at Hamilton had adjustable width plow beam frames. For example my one point fast hitch 2 bottom plow. Frame can be set at 10", 11", 12" and 14". My bottoms work fine on 10", 11" or 12", but not 14". There is a larger 2 bottom frame, can be adjusted for 12", 14" or 16" bottoms. You'll get the same in 3 and 4 bottom plows. Most plows larger than that are usually 16" only or 16" and 18". I expect there are about 4 sizes of bottoms to cover every size from 10" to 18".
Been a while since I've thought of this one, but I think Farmall Bob has a good way of looking at it. The width of cut should be the distance from the already-open furrow to the wall of the next one. In my day, as we oldtimers now say, we referred to plows by the width times the number of bottoms (example: "two fourteens" meant a plow with two bottoms cutting 14" furrows each). The sales literature back in the 20s, 30s, 40s and probably even later would describe tractors
as "two-plow,", "three-plow," and so on, and everybody seemed to understand that "plow" meant 14". If the tractor would pull a bigger plow, that was specified precisely (the low-compression John Deere A of the late 30s and into the 40s was described as "pulling two 16" plows," or something like this.
This isn't very helpful, is it? Fun for me to look back on my youth, so please be indulgent.
as "two-plow,", "three-plow," and so on, and everybody seemed to understand that "plow" meant 14". If the tractor would pull a bigger plow, that was specified precisely (the low-compression John Deere A of the late 30s and into the 40s was described as "pulling two 16" plows," or something like this.
This isn't very helpful, is it? Fun for me to look back on my youth, so please be indulgent.
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