1st Ever using a single Bottom Plow on a B2320 Comedy?

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Ok, I am going to give you all the tips on plowing that I have. There aren't many and it won't take me long. I've plowed exactly once.

You should use your gauge wheel to control your depth. Get it as deep as you want it and go drop the wheel to sit on the sod.
Adjust your coulter so it's cutting the sod a few inches deep as you go along. Will make for easier plowing.
Don't plow back and forth. You should be rolling the sod into the previous furrow which means you plow from right to left on the plot.
Speed... go fast enough to roll the sod cleanly into into the next furrow but not so fast that it throws it beyond the next furrow.
There's a lot to getting a plow tuned right, and I know next to nothing about that. A properly tuned plow will pull a straight line with the least amount of hp required.

Well, that's about all I picked up at that plow day event up in Georgetown a few weeks ago.

I defer to my signature for any errors above.
Ian

Thanks for info.:thumbsup: I also watched video which I should have done first. I have to try some thing then with advise and videos and my experience of doing it all wrong I learn how to do it right. I feel I will be a better plower the next time.:thumbsup:
Hopefully my tiller will cover my sins of improper plowing.

 

[oldballs]

Haywire, it is to be noted that you are plowing with the BX2660. Have you noticed that the front axle and rear transmission case is dragging in the dirt? Others have moved up to a larger B model to get the clearance. Well, anyway, I didn't buy the gauge wheel or the coulter. Geez, the plow by itself was $500. I hope to stick with the BX2660 because it does everything else so well and I won't be doing all that much plowing and may have to go ahead and get the other attachments for the plow. Thanks for your tips.:thumbsup:

 

[neilbedwell]

Hello there! I live near Hazard and I bought my L2800 from Barlow's just last year. I use a middle buster to break new ground and then slowly hit it with my tiller and it seems to do well. I have been wanting to pick up a turning plow since I got my first tractor a few years ago but just never did. What brand plow is that you have?

Neil

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Hello there! I live near Hazard and I bought my L2800 from Barlow's just last year. I use a middle buster to break new ground and then slowly hit it with my tiller and it seems to do well. I have been wanting to pick up a turning plow since I got my first tractor a few years ago but just never did. What brand plow is that you have?

Neil

I have no idea. I traded a Boxblade to Milkman from western Ky for the plow.

 

[Haywire]

Haywire, it is to be noted that you are plowing with the BX2660. Have you noticed that the front axle and rear transmission case is dragging in the dirt? Others have moved up to a larger B model to get the clearance. Well, anyway, I didn't buy the gauge wheel or the coulter. Geez, the plow by itself was $500. I hope to stick with the BX2660 because it does everything else so well and I won't be doing all that much plowing and may have to go ahead and get the other attachments for the plow. Thanks for your tips.:thumbsup:

I was using a borrowed 8" cat 0 plow up in Georgetown. I was only plowing about 6" deep, so ground clearance wasn't a huge problem. I'm picking up a 12" plow sometime in the next couple weeks depending on when smartfarmer gets more in stock. It's either going to be the Leinbach or a Howse. I'm making a gauge wheel, but going without the coulter. If you're close enough to pick it up and avoid the shipping, smartfarmer has both of them priced at $365.

Ian

 

[Volfandt]

Good info Haywire. John I can't watch your vid's here at work but I'll make sure to check them out tonight
Like Haywire said, plow only in one direction. Also to properly setup your plow, you want to have the tractor's wheels sitting in a just plowed furrow. Now using the adjustments you want to adjust the 3ph downlink (rightside on most tractors) so that you level the plow shear side to side. It'll be way off level on flat ground but remember, when you're plowing your tractor ain't level with one side in a rut
You also want the front to back tip downangle to be such that it'll run nice and smooth. if the tip is pointed down too much it'll continually try to go deep which can stop you dead in your tracks, if the tip is set with too much up angle it won't dig in and just want to ride on the top. Theres a science to setting a plow up.
I've never plowed w/position control nor 1/4" control. My old plow tractor was an old TE20 that had draft control. Once the plow was setup right it was the best setup I imagine there could be for plowing. Like the TV guy said, set it and forget it
Course these new 3ph controls could be better, but since I've shrank my garden down and use that fancy new "no till" method, I haven't plowed in yrs, I kinda miss it tho

John, now that you've gone video, we'll all have to catch up now
Dave

Ok, I am going to give you all the tips on plowing that I have. There aren't many and it won't take me long. I've plowed exactly once.

You should use your gauge wheel to control your depth. Get it as deep as you want it and go drop the wheel to sit on the sod.
Adjust your coulter so it's cutting the sod a few inches deep as you go along. Will make for easier plowing.
Don't plow back and forth. You should be rolling the sod into the previous furrow which means you plow from right to left on the plot.
Speed... go fast enough to roll the sod cleanly into into the next furrow but not so fast that it throws it beyond the next furrow.
There's a lot to getting a plow tuned right, and I know next to nothing about that. A properly tuned plow will pull a straight line with the least amount of hp required.

Well, that's about all I picked up at that plow day event up in Georgetown a few weeks ago.

I defer to my signature for any errors above.
Ian

 

[chriscos]

Looking Good :thumbsup:

I tried putting an ancient freguson 1-bottom plow on my B2920 this weekend, but it was way too "tall".

I put the plow on my 8N instead, ripped up a small plot that had sod about 8 inches thick. I of course ran the plow too deep, but I'm blessed to have black loam a couple feet thick. The sod turned over pretty good, but the plot was still very rutty.

I grabbed the B2920 with the tiller, and that little tractor, with turf tires, ate the sod and managed the ruts with no problems. I was impressed. Well, I wasn't impressed when the wheels started spinning, but then I realized I was in 2WD 4WD impressed me!

Of course, I was having too much fun to take photos...

Your tractor looks mean with the R1s. If I didn't need mine to mow so much I would have gone with the R1's too.

 

[DelSc]

Hi JohnThomas
That furrow looks straighter than my first try. Last year I got a 14" single bottom plow for my B3030. I think the rear wheel spacing is a bit less than ideal on my tractor, even with spacers, but it still works very well. Thanks for sharing your movies.
Scott

 

[Haywire]

I believe you can shift the plow back and forth with your lift arm stabilizers to compensate for wheel spacing... unless I'm wrong of course.. LOL

Ian

 

[Tom_H]

Hello there! I live near Hazard and I bought my L2800 from Barlow's just last year. I use a middle buster to break new ground and then slowly hit it with my tiller and it seems to do well. I have been wanting to pick up a turning plow since I got my first tractor a few years ago but just never did. What brand plow is that you have?

Neil

I imagine your L does a great job with a middle buster. Like the OP, I have a BX which can't come close to your tractor in the traction it puts on the ground. I have a subsoiler/middlebuster combo and the middlebuster is completely useless in my hard clay. The lower powered BX and the hard soil together are just to much for the BX to be able to pull the mb. If the OP has sandy loam that's already under cultivation, a middlebuster on a BX might be able to do the job. Here is the ballasted subsoiler I use to rip my hard clay and scratch the Duripan below it.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...9945-m7040-pulling-subsoiler.html#post1946481