It all depends on soil. I own what is reputed to have been a 3-4 plow tractor. On my clay I can make use of a 2-14, don't plow too deep and I'm standing on the diff lock or riding a brake quite often. I generally have to put the double ring chains on if it starts getting wet too. Not a fun farm to plow at all.
Local story is that back in the late 50's a local tractor dealer about 15 miles away got mad because he had several complaints from customers who bought a 45ish hp tractor from him to use on our clay. He sold them 3-12 plows and promised they'd plow anywhere with those plows. Finally he got fed up because the complaints were hurting his business and scheduled a field demonstration on a farm in our town to show the locals here how a real man that knew what he was doing could plow. On the big day there was a huge crowd (by our standards anyway- 45-50 people) and he set out to plow a field. He made it about 15-20 feet and came to a dead stop. He fiddle farted around for about 2 hours before admitting defeat. After that tractors sold in our town got a 2-12 set of plows and the dealer came out to set them up correctly. I understand some farms got 2-10's! I have a set of 2-10's said to have come from that decision.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:59:21 02/27/15.
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