Posted by IHCPloughman on October 21, 2011 at 20:28:49 from (208.107.27.230):
In Reply to: Plow Shares (wornout) posted by JD Farmer on October 20, 2011 at 08:30:51:
I also don't think your wear rate is unreasonable. Especially if you are plowing dry heavy ground or gravelly ground. I would venture to guess the shares you are buying aren't of the quality that shares would have been years ago.
I don't see anything wrong with grinding the sled runner off a share. You have to do something, and welding on it is just messing up the cutting edge. You'll never get a nice cutting edge without a sledrunner if you are welding on a new or a used share.
My grandpa did it, and lo and behold, it works for me also. The procedure went: plow until the sled runner pushes the plow out of the ground, grind off the sled runner. Repeat until there is no suck left or there is way too much to grind off. Then it was time for a trip to the blacksmith to heat up the point and draw it out. I just heat up the point with a torch and tap the point down just a tad, clean up it with the grinder and you're back in business. Continue plowing and repeat the grinding process. Once the share was worn to a nub it was time to go back to the blacksmith to do a complete rebuild.
Grandpa would have three sets of shares for his plow. One set on the plow, one new or sharp used set in the tool shop, and a third set at the blacksmith being worked on.
I have a once-new set of shares from Crescent Forge that I wore to the point of having zero suck in probably less than 15 acres. I then heated and tapped down the point and I am still using them.
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