'Stinkin' rocks!!!!

DeltaRed · Apr 1, 2014

Broke a (almost) new plowshare this morning.Just realized that last year on the same field same area,the 'same' share was also broke....So that means that I just broke the 'replacement'......Grrrrr. Thank goodness for trip bottoms!

glennster · Apr 1, 2014

neighbor a couple years ago was out pulling a v-ripper. saw him come down the road real slow dragging the ripper behind the 7060 allis. hit a huge bolder, snapped one of the lower 3 point arms and the top link right off the tractor. twisted the snot out of two ripper shanks. i went up with the backhoe and the the stone out. about the size of a pickup bed. that was a spendy stone.

Jerry/MT · Apr 1, 2014

I had the same problem when I broke the ground for my wife's garden. Broke the nose off the share and can't find another share for the old Grand Detroit plow I was using. Guess that's why they call them the Rocky Mountains!

jennifer408 · Apr 1, 2014

rocks bad, they cause derogatory adjectives to fly and if anyone is in earshot, it's quite possible they're ears could start bleeding.

larry@stinescorner · Apr 1, 2014

Hey,,,,I like rocks,,,

37chief · Apr 1, 2014

I hate rocks also. I broke the gear box housing, and bent the blade shaft on my Woods mower from a big rock. When there are a excess of rocks I usually use my disc. It just bounces over the rocks. A rock came from my mower and hit my front tier and bounced back in my eye, I have a scare for the rest of my life from that. I hate rocks.Stan

MSS3020 · Apr 1, 2014

I wanted to build a water fall in the side/back yard.. use to go to this non maintenance road and walk it and found most of the rocks for this water fall..(talking couple pickup loads) funny thing is guy come driving down the road wanted to know what I was doing there.. i lowered the tailgate and showed the rocks..he farmed both fields on either side of rode.. told me to go in them and take all the rocks I wanted..would do him a great favor..think he thought I was pickin weed..

bill mart · Apr 1, 2014

whats a non maintenance road ? bill

keh · Apr 1, 2014

Ledge of rock in yard right at back of house. Needless to say, I never dropped a plow there. In garden a short distance downhill there is a buried rock near the surface. I tried to get it out with a back hoe, no joy. This is a old house place, house gone before my time. The garden spot has probably been used for over a hundred years.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Apr 1, 2014

Larry you totally rock....

showcrop · Apr 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:19:28 04/01/14) whats a non maintenance road ? bill

Here in New England there were many roads from long ago that people stopped using so they were not maintained. After some years of no use, the town would vote at town meeting to change the road from class five to class six so that the town no longer has any obligation to maintain it. The roads are still there though and are public property. Much agricultural ground here is glacial till with lots of rocks, so no matter how bad the growing conditions are you can always count on a fresh crop of rocks to pick out in the spring.

Vito · Apr 1, 2014

Showcrop,

Are stone walls on the edge of the fields had to come from
somewhere.Talk about hard labor!

Vito

john in la · Apr 1, 2014

I could dig a hole in my yard 20 feet deep and never see one rock.
Old stumps now that is a different story.

coonie minnie · Apr 1, 2014

I don't miss rocks. No, we didn't move... just went to no-till. Rock picking is a non-event now.

RayP(MI) · Apr 1, 2014

A few years back,son hit a rock with a plow. We decided it had to go. Got busy with a shovel and dug. Found a ledge on side of rock with several broken plowshare points under it. Some were not same as any I could account for going back to 1950 or so. Assuming that rock was a problem from early in the 1900"s. At least 4 generations had bounced off it! Turned out to be about 3 feet across, and almost 5 feet high. Shaped like a giant russet potato. Was a heckofa job getting that thing out of the hole and pulled out of the field!

fixerupper · Apr 1, 2014

I'm not running Down anyone's plow,when I say this, but a hydraulic or spring reset plow won't break shares as often. It has to do with the way they move when they trip. With a trip plow the plow bottom pivots down before it goes,back. A hydraulic or spring reset plow bottom pivots up and over the rock. A toggle trip plow pivots up and over too. My first new plow,was a Case moonbeam with trip bottoms. Nothing but trouble, so Case came out with an offer to change it over to hydraulic reset for $200 per bottom, if I recall right. This was in the mid-seventies. That ended all the rock problems. Is there such a thing as an automatic reset rollover plow? Jim

Tech 7 · Apr 1, 2014

We had lots of "stones" on the farms back home. (stones you can pick by hand, "rocks" need a loader or backhoe)
I was plowing for BIL one night/early morning with a JD4440 and an IH 720 5x18 plow. Suddenly everything came to a near halt, the 4440 started to put her nose up and I glanced back at the plow as three of five furrows tripped back into working position.It felt like I had been rearended by a train.
I was well awake for the next couple hours.

Christopher Mikesell · Apr 1, 2014

I have never heard of a Grand Detroit, a Grand Detour maybe? Grand Detour was bought by Case. Most of the parts for case/grand detour centennial plows can be found fairly easily in used condition.

Wheat Farmer · Apr 1, 2014

Back in the day I would stop by and blow it out of there for you. You better fire up that drag line.

DeltaRed · Apr 1, 2014

My plow is a spring trip plow (IH #642-4x16).Yes
there are some hydralic resets out there. theu are
WONDERFUL!!!Neighbor has one.=(IH 165).Never
stops,it just trips and resets faster than you can
see it!Wide open throttle and GO!Pic was taken last
spring.The front point on top is the broken one.
Steve

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