Hey ALLAN! About those crazy looking plows?

You don't find many of 'em back here where REAL farms are abundant... We USUALLY try to keep all our plow shares in the ground, and not ride around with 'em in the sky....

OK.. Now that I'm done with the regional insult of the day, how much and how plentiful are 2X16" or 3X14" 2-way plows (as they're know back here in the real world)(Also hear 'em called hillside plows too, although that's a different bird altogether)

I'm interested in finding a good set (read GREEN AND YELLOW)(BUT would take Massey Ferguson) for tending to our sweet corn ground. Might be worth a trip out your way if they're available at a fair price.

I've gotta run down to Cowman's place, possibly as early as next weekend to pick up some stuff.

I'll pick thru the sites on my way down there. 3/14s are all over the place; and are just about give-aways. 2 bottoms are going to be a little toughter to find and probably not in a John Deere model.

As I recall, JD was a little late copying IH on the spinners and still had their double-drop style in the 2 bottom, didn't they?

Dunno, I'll look around for ya.

Allan

Oh the "square plow!" OK in light land I am told.It was invented in USA apparently by someone who had never seen a rollover plow (Well thats the story I heard ) They started marketing them in the UK and they went out of fashion just as quickly again why? Well for one thing the ones I saw had no skimmers (jointers? those mini plows that put the trash into the furrow bottom ) so unless the soil was very light, trash burial was a bit iffy.A bit better than a disc plow but not much. Another problem was that once the leading edge of the share wore a bit,( there is no 'plow point' as such) or the land was hard, penetration was poor. One thing about the rollover, reversible or whatever you want to call them, the plow bodies that are not actually in work at the time do act as weights, very useful if the land is a bit dry and hard.

Jerry