freedomlives
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- Joined
- Apr 12, 2015
- Messages
- 581
- Location
- Husak, Slovakia, EU
- Tractor
- Iseki TS35F, Goldoni Special 140 with powered trailer -- Goldoni Special 128 -- Goldoni Uno for mowing -- Czech Vari system
I had a month of fruitless attempts to get in contact with the Berta company in Italy -- including my wife's cousin in Italy speaking with someone there in Italian who said they would respond to my email "tomorrow", but apparently "tomorrow" in Italian means something different than English. Then my father-in-law took the PTO shaft adapter and the cast iron "neck" from the plow to the factory where he works, and got it half-way adapted for my Goldoni tractor, but then there was some other problem, and finally, finally, I found a firm able to finish cutting the right size slots in the adapter, and finally today got the thing hooked up to my Goldoni.
Last night was our first hard freeze: -6ーC/21ーF, so at first I thought the plow wasn't cutting into the ground very well because the edge rectangle pieces were rounded over, so I took them all off and flipped them over to expose a sharp point and went to some ground that had had more sun, and still poor performance. So I put the tractor in neutral and set the PTO to low-speed, and saw the problem-- the plow was rotating backwards.
The Goldoni doesn't have a reversible PTO, so I'm stuck with the (non standard?) counter clockwise rotation direction of its PTO shaft. I presume I should be able to swap the two ends of the plow to opposite sides and then they would be cutting the right way. Are there any special tricks to doing this?
Does anyone have the manual for the Berta reversible rotary plow that they could be so kind to scan for me? I'd like to also know what is necessary for properly maintaining the plow as well. My efforts to get any response from Berta were fruitless.
Last night was our first hard freeze: -6ーC/21ーF, so at first I thought the plow wasn't cutting into the ground very well because the edge rectangle pieces were rounded over, so I took them all off and flipped them over to expose a sharp point and went to some ground that had had more sun, and still poor performance. So I put the tractor in neutral and set the PTO to low-speed, and saw the problem-- the plow was rotating backwards.
The Goldoni doesn't have a reversible PTO, so I'm stuck with the (non standard?) counter clockwise rotation direction of its PTO shaft. I presume I should be able to swap the two ends of the plow to opposite sides and then they would be cutting the right way. Are there any special tricks to doing this?
Does anyone have the manual for the Berta reversible rotary plow that they could be so kind to scan for me? I'd like to also know what is necessary for properly maintaining the plow as well. My efforts to get any response from Berta were fruitless.