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Paul Shuler

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Was plowing my food plot today with my new to me Ford 3 point two bottom plow. My other 2 plows are IH fast hitch plows and are much different than this one. It plowed great then in the last 30 ft of my last run I hit a large rock that did not move. At first I thought I had broken the plow but I think it have just tripped back so as not to break. I can't get it to rotate back up. I stuck it in the ground and backed up and it didn't move. I gave it some gentle taps with a sledge and I thought I better stop. I would welcome any advice.
 
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I sometimes put a block under the toe of the tripped plow and let the lift down to push it back up. You may have to let it down on the block and back up gently to get it started considering the way it is pointed down.
 
Squirt a little oil on the hinge pin and then take a 4x4 and rap on it. With the oil, next time you should be able to just back up to reset it.
 
You had just as well do it the right way, it won't take long. Remove the pivot bolt let the bottom drop to the ground. Then polish the bolt and if there is a bushing clean it up too. Put it back together with a generous glob of grease. I am not familiar with that plow but the pivot bolt might be threaded into the opposite side so the bolt will have to be screwed out. This is probably not the case with this plow but if the bolt acts impossibly stuck try turning it to loosen it first. When you get the time the other two need to be removed, cleaned and greased too. It's the part of maintenance we all do not do often enough including me.
 
Picture looks like an International trip beam. The pivot bolt needs loosened up. Lots of penetrating oil and get down on the very lowest point of the plow share and brace your feet and yank it forward, and back and forward. It'll latch. You might have to get mad at it.
 
With that little left to finish job,get a chain. Hook chain to frog brace and run under the bottom. Hook other end of chain to
immovable object and very carefully back up, rotating bottom back into position. When you hear or feel it click in place,finish last pass.
Polish/grease bolts as others have described for future use. BTDT with a lonnnnnng retired three bottom plow of same make.
 
What kind of a new fangled contraption is that? Never seen a plow that tripped. Of course we don't plow Rocky fields out here.
 
A plow can have this type of trip where the beam overcomes a heavy spring type mechanism and trips back. The plow is backed up while lowered to the ground to reset the bottom. This is probably the most common. Some plows can have a shear bolt in place of the spring mechanism. Newer plows can have heavy springs that push the tripped plow bottom back into plowing position without the need to stop the plow. A few plows have a hydraulic cylinder that returns the plow bottom back to plowing position on the go.
 
Tom that an old fangled contraption. Probably 60 years old . They save a lot of head ache in the rocks they trip and swing back then you just back up to reset the latch and keep plowing . John Deere and other also hydraulic reset bottoms and then there are spring reset bottoms those are really nice because you just keep going and the bottom returns to plowing
 
That's an IH trip bottom, and it did exactly what it's supposed to do when it hits a rock.

It's rusted up because it's probably been 40 years since it's been tripped.

Go ahead and whale away on it with the sledge, with some common sense. Obviously beating on the plow parts themselves will just cause them to break, but if you hit on the heavy cast part you won't hurt a thing.

Heat will expedite the process.

Had that happen on an old IH #60. At least you can lift yours high enough to get home. Mine would have dragged a trench all the way home, so we had to beat it back in place in the field. Once we got it moving, it did free up to a degree.

Just imagine the kind of force it took to get it into that position.
 
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