Dumb questions

Depends on the soil but around here D-14's are better suited with 2 bottoms. There's newer stuff for in  the wheels thats not calcium. Its not as corrosive. Never heard of using antifreeze or windshield washer solution. You wouldn't gain as much weight using those.

Weight of some sort will certainly help you pull any plow. But 3 bottoms would be a lot no matter what. What size bottoms, 14 or 16 inches? Makes more difference than you might think.

Better to have a setup that goes fairly easy most of the time and have a little reserve for a hill or tough spot than something maxed out from the get go.

Well, if anyone is interested in a 3 bottom plow here in Indiana...😁

Good idea! Thanks!

So, no to washer fluid?

Tire place here quit the beet juice. Didn't get full explanation just know they were dissatisfied with it.

My D14 will pull a 2 bottom snap coupler 16” plow pretty much anywhere, but adding a 3rd bottom it would have to be good soil that is worked every year for it to pull it. I’ve seen D14’s pull 3 bottoms, but it always seemed like more than they wanted. I’d do like the others said and remove 1 bottom, and it should plow great. A good 3 point hitch conversion will pull 3 point plows every bit as good as a snap coupler plow, notice I said a good one, designed like ALLIS did, where the top link goes down to the pulling arms and not to a bracket hooked behind the seat. Just saying if you had a good 3 point plow already or available.   
   As far as fluid in tires, yes you will need it or the steel wheel weights, would help quite a bit. There are alternatives to calcium available today, just not as heavy.
To me it depends on how good you maintain your tractor.    I use calcium in mine, no problem, you just have to be vigilant with them, any signs of leakage or loss of pressure, get them repaired immediately. Because it will ruin your expensive rims, so keep a good eye on it. Calcium is all my tire shop installs, they want stock anything else for them and says what I told you, if any leakage or questions of leakage, get it fixed that day or the next. I know , can be a lot of trouble if you need the tractor now, but most people have a second tractor to use.    
Good luck with the plowing, a D14 is one of the best plowing tractors I’ve ever used.   

A set of D14/15 pie weights might seem expensive to start with, however they won't run down the ditch when you get a flat. also fixing that flat will be much less expensive and no worries about rusting rims. 

FYI

If you need the added weight calcium is affordable and available. The rims on our international loader tractor failed after 40 plus years and a number of flats from steel t posts. The cost of the wheels was not that bad. It takes a lot of iron to match the pounds you get with the calcium. 

Local tire place uses windshield washer fluid. It's 8 lbs per so per gallon. Sometimes you can find jugs of the stuff on sale for a $1. That is still 38 or so jugs to get 150 lbs per side.

Something to consider, the original poster is new and inexperienced. Not to say he can’t figure it out, heck maybe he’s a total natural. But I still say, better to use something that works easily. You can always grab a little faster gear if things go easy as pie. If he takes one bottom off and the plow pulls like a hot piano wire through butter, put it back on.

According to jay a long time ago, most of his plowing is garden soil that gets plowed several times per year! That’s not really plowing. Yes, he said 30 year pasture went good, but I have to wonder.

Bottom ground, rough ground, sod, hills, ballast, ....so many variables. Can it be done? Sure.

Good luck to the OP.

The WORST hole you can put  in sheetmetal is SQUARE.. As you flex, twist, etc.. all the stresses concentrate at the corners and cause crack.. Especially since a square hole is PUNCHED and could have imperfections at the corners.  Always better to have ROUND holes unless absolutely necessary.

Brett, no problem with the ignorance, that is curable. None of us on here knows everything. I grew up on an Allis B and WD but I still ask questions on this Forum and I have learned a lot. Stupidity on the other hand --- as they taught us in EMT school "there ain't no cure for stupid."

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: Brett, no problem with the ignorance, that is curable. None of us on here knows everything. I grew up on an Allis B and WD but I still ask questions on this Forum and I have learned a lot. Stupidity on the other hand --- as they taught us in EMT school "there ain't no cure for stupid."

Haha!!! True statement!!!

You could do a few acres with 2 bottoms and no weights. Start small for the first year and see how it goes.. You can add weight next winter for the following year as needed.. Once you plow the sod and get it done one year, you might find it is easier the second / third year and no weights are needed ?