Ready to plow the back 40
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Topic: Ready to plow the back 40
Posted By: Wil M (NEIA)
Subject: Ready to plow the back 40
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 6:59pm
Ok, maybe not that much, how about the back .4 acres or maybe just the garden:-)
   Wil
------------- "Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain tear down what time will never give again." Anderson M Scruggs |
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Posted By: BV
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 7:28pm
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I LIKE THAT, LOOKS GOOD AND VERY USABLE!!! |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 7:42pm
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Looks like you are ready, drop the plow and crack the throttle ------------- |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 8:46pm
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Looks like fun to me!!! ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 9:25pm
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Unless thats old grease on the moldboard you're not ready until you get the rust off the share and moldboard. If that's rust I see you will be cussing the plow,the tractor,the dirt,and your Aunt Emily,maybe! In that condition it will not "scour"(slide the dirt off the moldboard)and life will be hell! Take the time to clean it up good!! BTDT way to many times with friends! ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: Orange Tractors
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 10:14pm
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I agree with Dipstick, clean the rust off the moldboard.
The closer to chrome you can make the moldboard look, the easier plowing will go. I wore out a wire brush and two flap sanding disks on my angle grinder trying to clean up my 53 plow that hadn't been used in twenty years. It still wasn't enough, it took about three acres before I could get my WD out of first gear, a couple more acres and the plow was scoured good enough that I could pull it in third at least downhill.
If you can find a good sized stretch of sand or gravel, I have heard that it helps, but I haven't tried it myself.
After I got my plow scoured I didn't mess with grease on the moldboards, I used ninety seven cent spray paint from Walmart. It cleaned up pretty easily the next year.
Robert
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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 6:11am
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The moldboard has to be shiney. The guy who invented the first scouring moldboard went on to have a famous line of green and yellow tractors named after him. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Jack(Ky)
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 6:36am
| We don't have to clean the rust off down here, we have rocks for that purpose. If you can make the first round then you're good to go. Funny how all those old plows look like a team plow with no handles. Wonder why?JP |
Posted By: Wil M (NEIA)
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 7:17am
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I took the wire wheel on my grinder to the share before I plowed the garden. The picture doesn't show it the best but there were only a couple of spots that the soil stuck to it other wise it did an excellent job. Best way I have found to scour a plow is to use it and scrape off where the soil sticks. ------------- "Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain tear down what time will never give again." Anderson M Scruggs |
Posted By: TedBuiskerN.IL.
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 9:13am
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I start on a rusty plow with #60 or #80 grit sanding discs on a rubber backed disc on my 7" grinder. Use a fresh disc on each bottom. Go over quickly to knock off the surface rust, then get down to polishing. The moldboards are usually hard enough to dull the grit just enough to make them a good polishing disc. Once you have the plow bottoms shiney, a few rounds in the field , cleaning them off on the ends and you will be good to go. I've shined up dozens of plows this way, and it's the best way I've found. I store my plows in a dry hayloft with a wood floor, so a coat of used oil keeps them bright for years. ------------- Most problems can be solved with the proper application of high explosives. |
Posted By: Brian IA
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2011 at 9:28am
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Did the girls help?
------------- Brian Lindsay |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2011 at 10:55am
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Show us some furrows!
(or not??? (don't be shy, we won't be too rough on you)) ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |
Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2011 at 2:30pm
| A friend of mine used Muratic acid to clean rust off moldboards. |
Posted By: acer
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2011 at 3:28pm
| Regular Coke applied liberally then set awhile and take to field works good also |
Posted By: Wil M (NEIA)
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2011 at 4:36pm
No they didn't help. They were gone the weekend I started this project. I'll have to take some pictures of my furrows just for you Glenn. Nothing pretty but it did a good job in the garden. I will have to take it for a couple of rounds after my corn is combined. Let's see, it took me 5 years to get this on and to use it since you delivered it... ------------- "Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain tear down what time will never give again." Anderson M Scruggs |
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