middle buster use
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Don87
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Here are a few photos of the TSC middle buster on my 2005 Kubota B7510HST
The soil is fairly soft with a lot of gravel mixed in.
Don87
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And that's what a middlebuster/potato digger does. They don't come out of the ground unless the tractor tells them to.........just hoping my Massey with turf tires will pull it...........we shall see
Capt Dan
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I agree with post number 18.
Check the middle buster to make sure it was welded together right. Maybe they welded the bottom pieces on for a subsoiler instead of the middle buster. The bottom of these two are different.
I have the same one as you and have only used it once but I just hooked it up, adjusted nothing and it worked fine.
Check the middle buster to make sure it was welded together right. Maybe they welded the bottom pieces on for a subsoiler instead of the middle buster. The bottom of these two are different.
I have the same one as you and have only used it once but I just hooked it up, adjusted nothing and it worked fine.
Robert F.
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Your first photo appears to have the plow blade attached bottom side up, or is that just an illusion? The last two photos shows the blade attached correctly.
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Must be an illusion--I don't recall installing that blade backwards. Anyway, the MB works fine in my soil with the blade installed correctly. I never had a problem with the plow popping out of the ground.
gwdixon
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Note how the top link is adjusted longer in the photo. The key would be for the bottom edge of the blade to be adjusted to run flat or slightly at a downward angle.
My middle busters are homemade so adjustments are different but looking at the bottom of the blade should show how to get it to bury itself.
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I know this is an older thread just wanted to say that I bought a middle buster from tractor supply it came with the shovel upside down. It took me a day to figure this out. I still can not get it to dig deeper though -- often it just skips along the top. Considering getting a shorter top link, what do you think?
bp fick
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How deep it goes depends on a couple of factors, but yes, if your top link is too long and holds the tool in a way that doesn't encourage the spade to go deep, then start with that. I like vertical, but our soil is soft and sandy. With harder soils, you'll need to pitch it a bit and try it. It's experimenting, but it works.
This time of year is tough most places, as the soil is getting sun baked and very hard.
This time of year is tough most places, as the soil is getting sun baked and very hard.
PoorPlowboy
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I know this is an older thread just wanted to say that I bought a middle buster from tractor supply it came with the shovel upside down. It took me a day to figure this out. I still can not get it to dig deeper though -- often it just skips along the top. Considering getting a shorter top link, what do you think?
It skips along the surface and won't dig because you have the plowshare upside down. The share's point is not contacting the surface!
Do you have lower attachment points on the back of your tractor? Photo of the back of the tractor where the top link connects would help... It looks like it's high and there should be 3 holes... might try the bottom one. Or a shorter top link
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The plow is supposed to push the soil to each side, not scoop it up towards the center. As PoorPlowboy has said, you have the plow share upside down. I don't think that you going to have much luck with it set up the way that it is.
I don't think that you going to have much luck with it set up the way that it is.
bp fick
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The question is this. The photo's. Taken BEFORE or AFTER you flipped the plow share over?
If this is before, yes, it was wrong from TSC. If now, then you have flipped it over incorrectly.
If this is before, yes, it was wrong from TSC. If now, then you have flipped it over incorrectly.
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Maybe I did turn it upside down. But it works a **** of alot better that way then the way it came from the store. I moved the the top link down to its lowest point on the tractor and it was able to trench okay. I still have the shorter top link on order and I can try it both ways when that comes in. There is a ground edge on plow that is now pointed up. Before it was pointed down. The soil still gets pushed up and out of the trench in its current configuration.
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I'm wondering if besides being upside down the shovel is too small. I would think that with the mast set vertical, the point of the shovel should be running deeper than the angled support that it's bolted to.
Take that back and get a different one. If you look at the one in the link posted there's a roll formed into each side so it will flip the dirt.
Yours looks straight front to back like it wasn't even completely formed. Even if you flip it over it's not going to make a very wide furrow.
Yours looks straight front to back like it wasn't even completely formed. Even if you flip it over it's not going to make a very wide furrow.
bp fick
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Agree. I have the same unit as Flusher's photos in post 23 . No issues. Love it and use it all the time.
