Moldboard plow help

[cowski]

always replace the long slide with one like it .it takes the place of a tail wheel .i never thought they worked as good.there is no good way to put a guage wheel on it .you really need water in the rear tires .that plow looks like a 4-18 .a regular 3 bottom 16 plow with a guage wheel will pull easier.your ground looks hard.run a disk over it and wait for a rain .then break it a little wet.after you break it the first time it will be easier next year.you only need to break ground wet in the winter,fall or it will have clods.it needs the freezes to break the clods apart.try to set the plow to plow shallower it will be hard with all the weight of the plow sitting on the hitch .

 

[jwareing]

Thanks again for the feedback. I agree, I think a gauge wheel would help. As has been mentioned though, a little difficult and cost impractical since it'd take two wheels and starting from scratch rather than repairing. It does have the longer tail slide on each. As I mentioned before I measure it to be a 16" beam to beam. As for the dirt, it actually has decent moisture. We had 3" if snow early last week and it hasn't been warm enough to burn all that moisture off. The land is a former pivot corner that hasn't been farmed for years. I had half *** plowed the majority and spent many, many hours discing and using a leveler to correct my attempts. The backfield basically was powder after all the discing then used a JD 290 land shaper to level before rain brought it all back together. These recent pics were bringing final shape to the field near the house and to give the plow another fair shot. I think maybe I was trying to plow to fast of a ground speed before as these were considerably slower than before and ten time prettier.