Pulling 6 bottoms with 44 HP tractor

Twin City · May 25, 2013

Did a little plowing today with the 27-44 Twin City tractor. The field has been in sod for about fifteen years and was plowing about eight inches deep. The tractor just turned 87 years old in May.

paul · May 26, 2013

Neat.

I'm more impressed with the plows trailing properly with that hitch setup.

Paul

State of Jefferson · May 26, 2013

That's amazing! Friends of mine just bought a $150k Deeere to pull a 6 bottom with.
Although theirs may be a tad more comfortable to operate for 12 hours a day>;-)

Ben

KIP in MX · May 26, 2013

Great photos and wished I had your soil on my place.

495man · May 26, 2013

Nice, impressed with the trailing plow set up as well, must be harder to keep straight with the tractor on land.

Tx Jim · May 26, 2013

That tractor was built back when horses(HP) was equal to Clydesdale's not like ponies as of today.

NEKS · May 26, 2013

How does that type of traction wheel hold verse the spade type. Looks more comfortable to ride.

Dean · May 26, 2013

Great photos and great soil.

I imagine the twin trip ropes keep you on your toes at furrow end.

Dean

robgIN · May 26, 2013

thats an impressive looking setup.

Anonymous-0 · May 26, 2013

Mighty nice picture of some nice equipment working. If your tractor is a 27-44 I would think it means it has 27 horsepower on the draw bar and 44 horsepower on the belt pulley. That means it took 17 HP to turn the bull gears over. But the power to pull with comes from the ratio of the bull gears in the differential. Just my 2$ worth. Thanks again for your picts.

Royse · May 26, 2013

Great looking tractor.
The plow setup is slick too.
With my memory, I would have to color code the
trip ropes so I knew which one I was raising first!

Twin City · May 26, 2013

Thanks for all the great comments. The tractor only moves along at 2 mph. The pyramid lugs are for hard surface ground or doing road work and are a lot easier on the back. After a day of pulling trip ropes and turning this beast around at the end of the field a newer tractor would have been nice. I like your idea of different colors for the trip ropes,thanks! Molines biggest rope trip plow was 5 bottoms so their idea was to use the pair of 3 bottoms. Here is a picture from a 1926 sales booklet that I was going by.

sd pete · May 26, 2013

Nice pic! Thanks for sharing it.

rankrank1 · May 26, 2013

Thanks for sharing that pic.

I had always heard the old timers talk about those Twin Cities and their immense power back when I was a young'un 35 or so years ago. Seems like every TC I ever heard about always far exceeded the mfg ratings which is why they are legendary I guess. Never had the pleasure of running one though.

The plow set-up is impressive as well. My grandpa tried rigging 2 hydraulic tow plows (a JD 3 bottom and a JD 2 bottom) together back in the 1970's for use behind a Moline G705. His effort was much less successful and was soon abandoned.

ss55 · May 26, 2013

Your tractor and plows are both very impressive. Thank you for keeping them in operating condition and thank you for sharing your pictures.

The drawbar setup between your plows is very interesting because at first glance it looks almost too simple to work but it obviously works very well - a very good design! Is if difficult to setup?

Twin City · May 26, 2013

Here is a better picture of the hitch set up.

Anonymous-0 · May 26, 2013

You should enter plowing competitions! 44 HP but how much torque? That's a perfect example of the difference.

Brian G. NY · May 26, 2013

When comparing your tractor with the original brochure picture, it looks like you have turned back a page in time.
Wonderful job you did there!!

Rick Kr · May 26, 2013

Looking good.

ihredo4 · May 26, 2013

Looking good Tony. I am going to have to talk you into letting me pull the throttle on that tractor someday. LOL Here is some interesting reading for you.

http://books.google.com/books?id=50O9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=tractor+hitches&hl=en&sa=X&ei=l1-iUZ7mHMaFywHVkIGYBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA

Look up "Tractor Hitches" in Google Books if it doesn't come thru.

Twin City · May 26, 2013

I'm not Tony but he is a good friend of mine. My name is Jim Anderson and we both play with Twin City tractors.

Hal/ Eastern WA · May 26, 2013

My Grandfather had a Twin Cities tractor in the 1920"s that my Mom described as "huge" and the largest tractor in their community in Eastern Montana. I don"t know what model it was, but most of it was dismantled and went to a WWII scrap drive. My cousins still have the large metal drive wheels in a metal pile on their farm.

I sure would like to see a nice side view of your tractor. It looks like a beast! Thank you for maintaining it--I bet there are not very many of those left.

Bret4207 · May 26, 2013

(quoted from post at 03:37:57 05/26/13)
That tractor was built back when horses(HP) was equal to Clydesdale's not like ponies as of today.

Boy that's the truth. Kinda like why it takes a "25hp" lawn tractor today to do the same job we used to do with 8 or 10 hp back in the 70's. Different breed of horse power.

1206SWMO · May 26, 2013

Great pictures....I used to own a pair of 27-44 TC tractors..

Paul Searl · May 27, 2013

(quoted from post at 10:08:32 05/26/13) Here is a better picture of the hitch set up.

Now thats cool, gotta love the old TC's. Good job on the hitch setup and reproducing that photo.

Will Herring · May 27, 2013

The only odd thing I've seen pull a six bottom plow is this:

Very neat tractor you've got there sir, I love those rear wheels.

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