My potato plow won't dig in!

[Lemmeknow]

I'm trying to dig a trench to bury some electric cable in PVC conduit. I bought a used old potato plow at an auction, but I can't get the plow to dig in. It just rides along the top of the soil. (Clayey, but now sort of dry.) I am using a Cat 1 top link on a 25 HP Kubota L-245 (compact?) tractor. So far, no luck no matter where I set the length of the top link or which of the three "set" holes I pin it in. Should I load up the top of the plow with cement blocks? Frustrating.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I'm guessing that it's got something to do with the angle. Try lengthening your top link a bit to get a steeper angle.

Post a picture of the set-up. There could be something up with the implement, but I still think it's just the setup.

 

[Deerlope]

If you have access to a one furrow land plow it would do a better job for you.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I just read your post in more detail and realized you've already tried the longer top link fix.

Now I'm baffled.

Hopefully you can get us some pics.

 

[daBear]

I use a subsoiler to start the trench and break any roots up then come along with my middlebuster. Works great. I have put irrigation sprinklers in two acres of my back yard this way.

Your dirt must be harder than woodpecker lips if you can't get it to dig and you have to point down.

 

[davitk]

I'm not sure what your plow looks like, but on my sub-soiler if I shorten the top link and point the tip down it digs in and pulls it under. No offense, but have you checked to see if the plow is attached to the TPH correctly, in a manner that allows it to drop? Set it over a hole and see.

 

[Egon]

Neat cable plow!

 

[Bird]

To get it to dig it, you would not lengthen the top link; you would shorten it to get the point of the plow down. That's all I ever had to do, but I guess it might help to put some weight on it.

 

[WayneB]

Bird is right, shorten the upper link. I have a potato plow and the only thing I can say is it won't dig too deep. I know a subsoiler would get deeper.

I have used my potato plow and had someone stand on the cross support bar of the plow, it dug deeper and we all kept an eye out for the safety police!