wd and 4 bottom plow

Will a WD pull a 4 bottom plow? One coming up at auction near me, they tend to sell for next to nothing and I'm interested as I have some breaking to do. Cant tell brand as it is locked up until sale day. It is a trailer type if that makes any difference, thanks, Trev.

    A WD WILL NOT pull a 4 Bottom, unless it is not in the ground !

My thought is that it will be too much for the wd.  The WD is way too light to pull a 4 bottom pull plow not too mention under powered.  but hey if you can buy it cheap go for it and see what happens

It should pull it,but only 3" deep,lol.

On youtube there is a vid of a 45 diesel pulling 4 and walking right along, shined up properly set snap coupler I would say you might have a chance, but 4 on a trailer no way

That video is my diesel in some nice ground.  Those were the packed headlands though, and it was easier going down the sides as we finished off that field.  I have seen a WD with M&W's pulling a 4-14 fully mounted plow, but not a trailer type plow.  There is a possibility it could do it in nice ground with the traction booster hitch Allis had available for it's trailer plows.

Any four bottom plow in reasonably good condition is worth a couple hundred bucks around here.  More if it is not a hydralic lift plow, but has the trip rope type clutch lift.

Rfdeere wrote:     A WD WILL NOT pull a 4 Bottom, unless it is not in the ground !

That was Tom T Hall driving in the TV ads and the back was full of tractor weights to do it

Can it pull it.  Sure, but all things would have to be perfect from soil type, soil moisture, tractor condition, weights and proper plow set-up.  The general answer is no since rarely would everything be just right.

Oh! we ONLY had to put three TA's in that MTA in the 10 years we owned it!

Heres the thing about plows and tractors, which I have stated before, but.... every farmer thinks his ground is the toughest plowing SOB they have ever encountered, but 9 times out of 10 it isnt the ground thats so tough its the plow. A plow , anybrand, not set pulls like a stone I can stop a 135hp fwa tractor in its tracks with a 4x and can also pull a 6x with no problem in the same ground. A few years back we bought a 4-16 trailer AC plow a kid that use to hang around here wanted to plow in the field days with our 720 Diesel, so I went to the neighbor farm that had some corn silage taken off of to set the plow so he could go play, I pulled 4-16 in tough conditions and it took a good hr to scour, and set the plow, the neighbor came out to plow with me a 4440 and 4-18 and he was begging and we were plowing the same depth and he was moving slightly faster but not much than the 720. Did the 720 have the power to keep up with a 4440, not hardly the difference was the white plow he was pulling wasnt set properly, but because he had the power he could pull it, the 720 could only pull the 4 x because it was set properly.I pulled 3-16 in 4 lo with a D-17 gas in red loamy clay , it was laboring but it wasnt backing down either, and others on here say you cant hardly pull 3-16 with a d-17, it all in the set up. Just because a plow is in the ground and turning a furrow doesnt mean it is doing it properly.

       I have been wanting to get a four bottom s/c for one of our WDs for some time, I think Ryan is tired of me showing him for sale ads every week. The three bottom just isn.t big enough.

I don't know what kind of soil you have, but down here 2-16s is almost too much for my WD. I had a mounted 3-14 a couple years ago and the TB just lifted the tractor off the ground. I don't see any possible way a stock WD would ever handle a 4 bottom. Like Kcgrain said, you won't have much luck dropping bottoms, especially 4 to 2. Find a decent 2-14 trailer plow, fill the tires, and bolt on about 600 lbs of wheel weights and go.


Edited by Bill_MN - 31 Aug 2011 at 3:55pm

I have a gas JD 4020. I bought a 4x 18 AC 2000 monobeam. I could plow everywhere on my farm but in the damp black dirt (Okaboji soil type) I couldn't keep the front wheels on the ground. That might have been from the hitch being too high and from having no extra weight on the front of the tractor. But after the front wheels got up to 6 feet off the ground, I quit plowing, took off the front bottom, moved the hitch over and down, added all the weights I had (about 300 pounds) up front, and plowed in 5th gear instead of 3rd where the tractor didn't have the torque to lift the front wheels. Nominally a 93 hp tractor. Didn't ever have a power problem or a traction problem.

I'd think the WD45 might have a chance with 4 12s in the right soil, but not my wet spots and for sure not 4 16s.

Some AC plows (50, 60, 70, 80, and 9000 series) were so modular that you can take the frame of a multiple bottom plow apart and make it one or two bottoms less and it will be just like a factory plow, though the hitch details may make that harder. Those AC frames are bolted up of small pieces to make that economy of manufacture practical.

The traction booster is probably why the WD45 plows better than other tractors of its HP range and a pulled plow won't allow that.

Gerald J.