Tractor/Plow Question

Draft arms should trail "centered". Top link should be in line with centerline of tractor. The offset drawbar can be rotated to make plow follow correctly. Standing at the furrow side, rotate the drawbar clockwise to make the plow trail further to the left, and counter-clockwise to make it trail to the right. Most plow manuals refer to that as adjusting "width of cut". (Sounds like you MAY need "clockwise". If the plow is trailing centered, DON'T change this adjustment) Some plows come with a landing lever that will rotate the drawbar to regulate the WIDTH OF CUT of the front bottom. That adjustment should be used to make the plow run centered on the tractor's DRAFT LINE and NOT to force it to one side or the other. Once the plow is trailing correctly, the tread width should be adjusted to correct position relative to the front bottom.

Does the plow need shares; I.E. no suck?

Are you putting the plow in the ground deep enough? It has to run totally level front to back.

Do you have the hitch adjusted so that it will "float" vertically on the arms? Even tho the tractor is "cocked" and running at an angle in the furrow, the plow hitch still has to remain level.

Even tho the plow has a "tilt" adjustment, it will help if you completely unhook that center link until you get the plow leveled out. All the center link is used for is to lift it out of the ground anyway.

When adjusted right, the center link pin should just "dance" and rattle around in the eyes when the plow is in the ground. Shouldn't be any pressure on the center link in any way.

Look at the plow and make sure it isn't sprung.

Just some ideas,

Allan

Probably in this case moveing the right rear wheel out will do the trick.

So glad you posted that picture. I've got that same plow, or similar and didn't know what make it was. Mine appears to have had more bottoms on it at one time. There is a ragged cut on the top "spine" where maybe it had four or more bottoms. Mine lacks coulters and that furrow wheel. Does yours have landsides as well? I'm thinking that wheel along, with more tinkering may help mine stop pulling so hard to left. Think I'll go by the tractor junkyard today and see if the got one.