Mystery Plow cleanup

[sweettractors]

Thank for the feedback everybody.

I gave it a test run yesterday and it cut really good. It' a big improvement.

Here's a picture of it next to the parts plow.

What I can't figure out is what is the adjustable lever on the tail?

You have done a fine job on that plow. Those points/shares make it look real aggressive. The adjustable thing your see on the rear landslide is a wear piece. This keeps the soil from wearing off the back corner of the landslide prematurely. Ken Sweet

 

[8NLUGNUT]

This keeps the soil from wearing off the back corner of the landslide prematurely.

Hummm. Then the next question is.. is it properly adjusted on in the right position?

 

[sweettractors]

Hummm. Then the next question is.. is it properly adjusted on in the right position?

It should be just a fraction below the bottom of the landslide. Ken Sweet

 

[8NLUGNUT]

Today I discovered the hard way that the plows top link hitch bracing was not a strong as the shear bolts. Got about 3 acres this afternoon then hit a root that stopped the tractor dead, threw me almost on the hood, bent both ends of the top link and flipped the plow up 90 degrees to within about a foot and a half from where my head would have been had I still been occupying the seat when the 8n came to an instant stop.

Guess I need a good welder.

 

[sweettractors]

Today I discovered the hard way that the plows top link hitch bracing was not a strong as the shear bolts. Got about 3 acres this afternoon then hit a root that stopped the tractor dead, threw me almost on the hood, bent both ends of the top link and flipped the plow up 90 degrees to within about a foot and a half from where my head would have been had I still been occupying the seat when the 8n came to an instant stop.

Guess I need a good welder.

I hate to hear that. Glad you are ok. I had a friend that did the same thing, except, he broke 3 ribs when he hit the steering wheel. Those bolts are not shear pins. A shearpin woulld be more like 5/16 or 3/8 inch diameter. Ken Sweet

 

[clemsonfor]

My brother has been using the Mystery Plow behind the 8N on the foodplots this fall. I never have figured out who made the thing.

After watching Ploughmyfield plow cleanup video I decided I could do that too!:thumbsup:

I wire brushed the shares, moldboards and lands? Slapped some oil on them then started priming the frame.

There should be a lot less friction.

I tried to dress up the leading edges with a grinder.


Two questions.

Does anybody know who CGM and CFD is? Manufacture? Previous owner?

Second question is should I actually sharpen the leading edges? If so what is the proper way and what should the edge look like?

Those may be the farmers initials? Maybe he was worried about his neighbors sticky fingers? Just a thought.

 

[bjr]

That's my question. How does the plows trip? I'm not getting the trip safety in the photos? bjr

 

[SandburRanch]

Today I discovered the hard way that the plows top link hitch bracing was not a strong as the shear bolts. Got about 3 acres this afternoon then hit a root that stopped the tractor dead, threw me almost on the hood, bent both ends of the top link and flipped the plow up 90 degrees to within about a foot and a half from where my head would have been had I still been occupying the seat when the 8n came to an instant stop.

Guess I need a good welder.

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I know the feeling all too well.

Thirteen year old kid on a D John Deere pulling a 3-14 trip plow. D idled down because of possible oak stumps on the back side of the back 40. Standing and watching fore and aft like a good farmer should. Gawd it made me proud to be allowed to run equipment like that. And about that time all was quiet X-cept my forehead whacking that umbrella shade stand pipe. Locked the clutch tight, clevis pin couldn't be pulled and another tractor had to be summoned to pull backward a bit to loosen things enough to operate again. But all was well except the big knot on my forehead.

 

[djradz]

Thank for the feedback everybody.

I gave it a test run yesterday and it cut really good. It' a big improvement.

Here's a picture of it next to the parts plow.

What I can't figure out is what is the adjustable lever on the tail?

I like the "part plow". That's an old Fergeson or Fergeson Sherman model from the early 1940s.

 

[8NLUGNUT]

I got really lucky.

I was in 3rd about 2/3 throttle going slightly down hill in sandy soil. Today my gut is sore where the doc made a 13" hole in my side removing a cancerous kidney the first week of September. I hope I'm not too sore for turkey day!!

As for shear bolts, maybe someone put grade 8 or something on it when they made it.

I think I'll take a good look at the bolts on the Ferguson parts plow and this one.

If I had the parts for the Ferguson I'd use it.

Ken, I'm driving up to New York Sunday morning from Texas, If I go through E town during your open hours maybe I 'll stop in and look at you plows.