How do you all hook up your plow rope to your tractor

ericy · Nov 4, 2011

going out at first light to a plow day with the local tractor club for a plow day and I dont know how to do it safely -soft wire and loop it --bailing twine??? Please help dont want to pull the seat off with me on it!!!

richardinnz · Nov 4, 2011

I tie the trip rope on with a thin piece of bale string. Like you said, keep the seat attached to the tractor!

Jim in Ma. · Nov 4, 2011

I used an old welding rod and bent it like a large ring. If the plow trips, it will just bend and let go.

Janicholson · Nov 4, 2011

Hot glue a magnet to the end, then stick it in a handy spot. Magnets taken from a Hard Disk Drive head motor are radically correct, Leave the steel Keeper on it! Jim

504 · Nov 4, 2011

I have a tool that was made for the job, IH I think.

Jim Becker · Nov 4, 2011

Harvester had a place on the tractor to attach the rope. It was light enough to tear away if the rope was too solidly attached. Nowdays, if it is still on the tractor, few people know what it is. Check reference 2 in this drawing.

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Anonymous-0 · Nov 4, 2011

Don't tie it to anything, sit on it with the positioned on the side of the hand you are going to use. Make sure it can slip from under you easily without catching on anything.

rustred · Nov 4, 2011

there was a special buttom that fit into those old steel seat holes with a clip that you pushed the ring on the end of the rope into. i still have that on my 22-36. but the most common was just a piece of wire off the btm of the seat.but you can use anything like twine that will break.

mkirsch · Nov 4, 2011

The metal tab was where you tied the baling twine.

Around here if you depended on that tab, it would be gone in the first pass.

Earl - IL · Nov 4, 2011

Use small plastic wire ties. If it breaks loose it won't break the plow or the rope.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 5, 2011

I did the same thing as Todd and it worked fine. Our plow had a break away hitch. So the rope would just slide out from under you if the hitch triped.

Tom Fleming · Nov 5, 2011

We used what I remember as a trip rope clip on the back of the seat and used the loop off a large key ring with bailing twine tied to it.

sd pete · Nov 5, 2011

A piece of baling wire about a foot long.

Nebraska Cowman · Nov 5, 2011

That's what I have too. I see there is this one on ebay now. Item 380330563337 But it seems like I saw someone reproducing them. Don't remember where though.

Duner Wi · Nov 5, 2011

Hair pin spring clip .

Denny ('60 Lo-Boy) · Nov 5, 2011

(quoted from post at 23:38:58 11/04/11) Harvester had a place on the tractor to attach the rope. It was light enough to tear away if the rope was too solidly attached. Nowdays, if it is still on the tractor, few people know what it is. Check reference 2 in this drawing.
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Jim, several of my Cubs still have that tab. Easy to keep them with mounted plows. :wink: I use it for the trip rope on the pull type 2 row planter in the sweet corn patch.

Scotty HOMEy · Nov 5, 2011

I remembered always having the clip as in the picture. I fashioned a new one (without the button) out of #9 wire.

Not sure how it's supposed to be rigged. I run the clip to the big eye is looped through the hole in the bracket on the seat. My trip rope is 1/4" sisal with a knot on the tractor end, with the knot slipped into the lower, smaller loop of the clip. When it trips, the knot just pulls out through that crisscross, leaving the clip on the tractor.

rich4 · Nov 5, 2011

Now this brings back memories. I know we had a trip rope plow, but mostly we had a trip rope dump rake adapted from a horse drawn one. Where did we attach the rope end? I am not sure, we may have just tied it to something convenient or left it in our hand. That figure 8 type hook looks good. With the rake I am sure we just held it in our hand as it had to be used often.

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