Plow size

bindian · Sep 1, 2014

I can bury my 9 foot offset on the second pass here where I live now. No plow needed here. I never want to have a 3PH disc. Everybody that knows offset discs and sees mine wants to buy it. Oh, it's not for sale I tell them. Only bad thing about the offset is my trailer should be 3-4 foot longer to haul the disc AND the Mahindra. My 24+5 dovetail dual tandem is a tad short.
hugs, Brandi

Poopdeck Pappy said:
One more thing. We pretty much quit using the moldboard plow when we got an offset disc, which you have.

The tractor would pull a much wider offset disc, and the offset disc did fine job of turning the soil over (not as deep as a moldboard, but sufficient) so we didn't use the moldboard plow much. The people on here who have only used a tandem disc and never used an offset have no idea how much better an offset plows than a tandem.

I used to plow a square quarter section (160 acres) of land with that old 3-bottom moldboard. A few trips around that field took a LONG time, and it was really depressing to see how little I had done in that time.

MtnViewRanch · Sep 1, 2014

Brandi, have you weighed your tractor? I ask because I come up with 10,800lbs. 7300 lbs for the tractor, 2000lbs for the loader, and 1500lbs for the loaded tires.

Do you have some cast iron also?

Just wondering. :confused3:

jeff9366 · Sep 1, 2014

BRIAN: NEVER ask a lady about her weight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bindian · Sep 1, 2014

Brain,
With the backhoe and subframe it weights 11,300 pounds. The BH weighs 1600 pounds. I am not removing the subframe, so I give it 300 pounds, but probably weighs more than this. The subframe also beefs up the lower loader braces that tie into that U channel you and I turned upside down for clearance. So there is more weight there now also. Now add that 1500 pounds of liquid in the tires.
hugs, Brandi

MtnViewRanch said:
Brandi, have you weighed your tractor? I ask because I come up with 10,800lbs. 7300 lbs for the tractor, 2000lbs for the loader, and 1500lbs for the loaded tires.

Do you have some cast iron also?

Just wondering. :confused3:

bindian · Sep 1, 2014

Well, I guess:confused3: the Big RED Beast is a lady.
hugs, Brandi

jeff9366 said:
BRIAN: NEVER ask a lady about her weight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MtnViewRanch · Sep 1, 2014

Close enough, sounds good.

oldnslo · Sep 1, 2014

for reference:
2-85 White with 18.4-38 tires full of fluid, dual on the high side would only pull 4-16's in central Minnesota soil. Traction wasn't the issue HP was. Tractor scaled in around 15,000 lbs. Lighter soil it would have pulled 5-16's.

Out by Boise, ID 720 JD diesel would barely pull 2-14's since it was all flood irrigated land the soil became like rock. Took 140+ HP to handle 4-16's in that area.

Here in north central, IL 135 HP will handle 5-16's if you can keep the nose from star gazing.

these are 2 WD tractors.

sixdogs · Dec 5, 2014

I was following this thread and wondering how it ever panned out?

bindian · Dec 5, 2014

Nothing has happened. It's on the back burner now. Too many things gone wrong this fall...........new computer.............old flip phone screen died..........so just bought my first smart phone, which would not sinc with my old bluetooth because of a broken on/off switch, which I just left on all the time............so add in a new Jawbone bluetooth.....which I love...........
.................new front shocks on the truck.............now Christmas............maybe with my tax refund......................................if only frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butts when they hopped..............................
......oh yeah................new puppy dog.
hugs, Brandi