middle buster use

PoorPlowboy · Jul 19, 2011

tcnjdeluca said:
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!

teg · Jul 19, 2011

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

MtnViewRanch · Jul 19, 2011

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.

teg · Jul 19, 2011

CountyLine Middle Buster - 2128228 | Tractor Supply Company

Something is not right here...

bp fick · Jul 19, 2011

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.

tcnjdeluca · Jul 19, 2011

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.

Dan

Car Doc · Jul 19, 2011

I will be plowing my taters up this weekend with mine, out of the furrows I planted them in that I made with the MB. :thumbsup:

btw those pics show it assembled wrong fyi.

Baby Grand · Jul 19, 2011

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.

Argosy · Jul 19, 2011

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.

bp fick · Jul 19, 2011

Argosy said:
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.

Agree. I have the same unit as Flusher's photos in post 23 . No issues. Love it and use it all the time.