farmall A plow?

Badger bob · Aug 24, 2014

I have a 1946 farmall A with a mounted plow ( A194 I think) do you think its posable to replace the regular mowbord and mount (jury rig ) the bottom from my horse potato plow to it? ive have 5 rows of potatos 200 ft long to dig. thanks Bob

El Toro · Aug 24, 2014

I would use the plow you have to plow them out. I used my garden tractor for making the potato rows
and for plowing them out. With that many potatoes you need a potato digger. My wife, daughter and mother-in law scratched out the spuds
before I made another pass across the garden. I grew about 1/2 of what you grew. I grew Kennnebec and one row of Red Bliss. I used a buried upright freezer for storing them. Hal

El Toro · Aug 24, 2014

Here's the Farmall A I restored in 1975. It has the 16-inch plow. Hal

Badger bob · Aug 24, 2014

thanks Hal that's the plow I have . I may have to use it. I tried using the horse plow behind the tractor but iam not a good plow driver. ( was all over the place) ill see what the outher guy come up with before I decide. thanks Bob

WellWorn · Aug 24, 2014

I'm a bad plow driver

Bob, about 50% of running a plow, whether horse or tractor drawn, is the line of draft: how and where it's hooked to whatever is pulling, 20% is the 'polish' - heavy rust doesn't cut it, so once you get it polished (pull it through some creek gravel), throw some plow paint or grease on it before letting it set "till next season". Another 25% is the condition of the point(s). Anything more than a nub should work for you. If really bad, weld an appropriate shaped piece of leaf spring on.

Most horse plows have a series of vertical holes at the hitch point. That point to the tractor should be roughly horizontal as a starting point, with as short a chain as possible. If you are fighting to keep it in the ground, you're hooked too low on the plow. If it's digging for China and trying to throw you over the handles, you're hooked too high. Adjust pull point on plow and/or tractor as needed. Barring soil with lots of rocks, you'll be an expert in short order, then make notes for next year, just in case.

Hope that helps.

Well Worn

gene bender · Aug 24, 2014

That wont work as you have no way to guide or set depth. When you were here should have looked at my set-up with the irrigation shovel works fine for digging them. I use the rear tooling on the cult with the shovel mounted in the center. Do you have a digger with the shaker. I have one you can have needs another guide wheel

Badger bob · Aug 25, 2014

Gene I have the one with the shaker wheel. but now I think that ill just pull it behind the tractor. thanks bob

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