</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I will make a long story short and say that I am really really stupid. I have been ***!#&!!* with my two bottom plow for a year. I have several previous posts revealing my stupidity. But only today did I realize that the reason I probably got it cheap and second hand, and the reason the last owner couldn't use it, was because the pins were reversed and the pin for the adjustable link was high, not low like it's supposed to be. TSC sold it to him crated, so they obviously (or King Kutter) assembled it wrong. How many times have I looked at plow photos? How many times should I have caught this?
You want some fun? Reverse the pins and try to plow. You'll want to shoot yourself. Fixed it today and MUCH better. But doesn't ease the pain of being the Big Donkey Head on TBN. Thanks for listening.
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So... You think THAT makes you "stupid"?????
About 3 years back, I started looking for a 3 bottom plow for a tractor I'd just bought. I wanted a good one. It was to plow a big garden with every fall...
I ran on to a good looking Ford model 101, 3-bottomX16" plow at a local dealer I do business with. He said that there was "something wrong" with it. A good customer of his brought it in for some parts, and then brought it back to him a few weeks later to try and sell it for him.
So the story goes, the old man bought it at an auction where a Ford dealer was going out of business. (I think I MAY know why now) He never had much luck with it. The old guy would hook it to his tractor, and "drag it all over the field". It just wouldn't go in the ground....
So, he brought it to the dealer that'd been in business for 30 some-odd years... He tried a set of new shares. Still no luck. It was decided (after the old farmer and the old dealer both looked the plow over) that there was something "sprung" on the frame. It was "junk".
I looked at it close. (I'm an old farm boy myself.... Plowed literally THOUSANDS of acres over the years. I SHOULD know my way around a plow) I thought that if nothing else, I'd take it home and part it out to fix up another old Ford plow.
Before I took the torch to it, I thought I'd try it once myself. I hooked it up to the tractor. After a few failed attemts, I decided that there WAS something wrong with it....
I backed it into the shop. I got out the impact wrench to dismantle it.
SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT.......
Then it hit me.... The off-set drawbar was on UPSIDE DOWN......(Just like yours!)
An old farmer with probably 50 years of plow experience missed it. The dealer and his mechanics with at least that much total experience missed it. And I ALMOST missed it....
I loosened 3 bolts, spun the drawbar around, and took it plowing.
Ended up being about the best set of plows I'd ever used......
And I HAD to tell the dealer about those "JUNK PLOWS" he sold me at junk price!