Farmall 706 263 gas what plow?

What plow or what size plow do you recommend for this tractor? Will it do OK with a 4-16 plow?

That would be perfect.

Depending on soil type will make the difference . Over here in N/E Ohio for the most part a 706 with a C263 can get by with 4x16's plowing 8-10 inches deep running fourth low IF it is tuned correctly and ya run 93 octane gas . Only one time that i plowed a farm with a late model 706 with a 291 with 4x16's that it would not pull it in fourth gear low even with the T/A pulled back and it would not pull it in third low with the t/a in low but i did shear the bolts off the bottom where the fast hitch bolted to the belly . . That one farm i had rented had not been plowed in forty years and had over a hundred head of beef cattle run on it for that length of time and before that it was plowed with a team of horses. the seventy acres that i turned under was done with fifteen hundred lbs on the nose and second low with the t/a in low . That ground DID NOT just roll off the moldboards as it came up in slabs . IF your in heavier soil then 3x16's would be better .

Yes

I have an early 706,263 gas.When I went hunting for a plow I was thinking 4 14s or 4 16s,but to much money as everybody want them for small farms or were collecting them,so I found a 710 4 18s nice shape and took the back bottom off and moved tail wheel ahead(oh ya it is semi mount)to make 3 18s and it works great.My 706 doesn"t have TA so 99% of the plowing is done in 3rd,which is rolling right along and 2nd only for a short distance in some hard pan.

Did you find any arrow heads in that field?

Yep they are down there and i did pick up a few. The interesting things we found down there were a CSA sturup (sp) and a CSA belt buckle . As this farm was just a couple miles from where they captured The Morgan radiers. Those items were found down next to the creek bottom just south of the old mill site. No i did not find the GOLD , dang. The other interesting things i found was only one rock in all the plow ground and a sink hole that opened up under me while plowing the one field . I had a 67 706 narrow ft. and a 1466 12 slot ft weight bracket on the nose that was full of 100# weight and two 150 donuts hug on with a chain to keep or i should say try and keep the ft wheels somewhat on the ground . So you would figure that if you found a soft spot that the nose would go to china first , Nah that did not happen , i had just lifted the plows to cross the grass water way and the ft. end went across with out making a wheel track but when the back tires hit the middle of the water way the tractor just fell out from under me . The 710 4 bottom had the ft two bottoms buried to the beam and the back two and tail wheel were sticking up in the air a good four feet off the grond at the tail wheel. I had to step UP to get off the tractor onto the ground. At the time i owned one tractor one plow one disc one corn planter and one grain drill and one Massey 300 combine and one four wheel drive Ford F250 pickup. Well we will try the truck with the tire chains , yea wright that did not work. So i asked a friend if he would bring his 1086 down with the duals to help pull me out . Ah no that was not working , so we added the pick up to the mix ah ya. No that ain't working . So i went and asked a guy that i did not know if he could bring his 4840 over and try and help . Well one 1086 with duals , one 4840 with duals and one pick up with chains on all four wheels would not shake it . so plan A did not work and plan B did not work plan C did not work and plan D did not work. So next step make the 40 mile drive up to another friend and borrow his low boy and 750 JD dozer with a 60000 Lbs winch . So that is what i did . I have pulled dragged winched many pieces of oil Field equipment in and out of nasty places with a 750 Deere and i am here to tell ya my 706 was STUCK BIG time . It was not just back up to it and put the winch line on it and give a little tug and out it came , lined out about fifty seventyfive feet dropped the blade and set the brake after i tryed to track it out and just spun the tracks . When i started to spool in when the line went tight instead of said tractor and plow moving to the dozer it was dozer moving to the tractor and plow . I had to bury the blade in as deep as i could and spin the tracks in till i had a mound of dirt behind them with the dozer setting about a 20degree angle and still almost pulling it out of the holes before the tractor and plows came out . The area around this farm was heavily strip mined over the years and also deep mined and bored . Only thing we could figure was either the roof of and old deep mine gave way or a bore hole collapsed as there was no mud or wet dirt in the hole . To fill that hole it took eight 16 foot tandem dump loads of rock and shale and some dirt to fix the water way.

Great Story - great reading, Jim

Where did you hook? I would have thought you would have pulled the tractor in two!!

Gene

We had to dig down to get to the draw bar and used a big clevis to hook the tail chain to it . First thought was just hook to the plow beam and i figured that was not such a great idea . I had help as two of my friends were there . Had this happened today i could have posted pictures of it . Most times when ya get hug up it is a momentary delay , not that time i was STUCK and it would have fit in in stuck and troubled . My one friend has worked with me in the oil patch and has seen some of the stuff i have done with a Dozer and winching things out . Back then i did a lot of work with Berdett drilling and they had this huge Idco rig that weighed in at around 220000 lbs , the rig dozer was a D7 G with a 70000 lb Hyster winch on the back i was running a 750 Deere with a 60000Lb Hyster winch . One time they got that rig STUCK going into a location and Ottos there cat skinner twisted the drive shaft to the winch on the 7 trying to get the rig out . Walley the head tool pusher called me and want me to come out as try and move that monster . I went and i went prepared with four fifty ton snatch blocks we did a four part line hook to the rig and did the plant the blade and spin in the tracks in good hard dirt and sucked the rig out and winched it the last 1200 plus feet back to the pad fifty or sixty feet at a time . Half the county engineer dept watched me winch out a semi with 1/4th of the bridge span that weighed in at over 140000 lbs with the county's 350 Case dozer when it got stuck trying to back down into the creek by the farm . Here again a four part line and sucked that truck up and out , not fast but it did the job . They could not believe that it could be done .