Ross; The soil that I have been plowing has been worked for well over a century as farm land. We have the stone walls and hedgerows to prove it. My uncle who passed away last fall did all the plowing. About 500A. Neither my cousin or my other uncle knew how to plow the fields. I stepped in and told them that I would do the plowing for them, but no way that I would plow with their 7220 Magnum and that piece of crap Keneverland 6 bottom vari-width plow. It could not turn a decent furrow even turning soil downhill. ( The main frame of the plow was meant to have more bottoms added to it to pull correctly). We dug an old Case 8358 plow (1972 vintage--5x18) that was stored away from years back, and I hooked it to my 1969 Case 931 that I had recently overhauled with an 1/8" over bore kit in it. My rear wheel spacing was 4" less than the book called for, but that worked much to my advantage on our steep side hills with a 3x10" hydraulic cylinder installed in the side hill hitch mechanism. My plowing job is so much better than they were used to that the cousin was able to eliminate one secondary tillage trip from the routine. As far as cost for ware parts for this plow since I hooked onto it, the hydraulic accumulator was bad and we found a good used one off a IH combine that is working well, That cost us $175 bucks with a fresh charge of nitrogen. Around 270A covered since last fall, and we have spent about $300 bucks on a spring ordering program at our CNH dealer For Weise replacement parts and I still have a full set of new shears. So about a buck an Acre to maintain the plow . The Keneverland plow was costing them around $2K a year to plow 500A. I have saved them a bunch of money to fit the ground for planting. Loren
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