Plow tilt

[Fastball]

Just wondering if this is normal. Friend has a old Ford double-blade plow. When we tried to plow a row or two, the plow seems to be way tilted over to one side - causing one blade to dig in and the other to barely skim over the surface. We致e lengthened the top link but it doesn稚 seem to make too much difference. The horizontal shaft ends on the control arms have a 90 degree bend - one facing up and the other down. Is there a way to get it to dig in a bit more!

 

[TerryR]

It's designed that way because, after the first pass, the right hand wheel is supposed to be down in the furrow left by the prior pass and the plow will then be level.

 

[Fastball]

I see! We were just trying to break up a narrow piece of hard ground so I could get the tiller in there. We weren’t doing a traditional field...just a strip. I will take the tiller out in a few days and see if I can chew the snot out of the clumps left behind.

 

[jeff9366]

I have the same Ford model 101 plow with the Landing Lever.

I trust you are new to the plow. The plow require more experience to use well than any other implement.

How wide at the rear tires on that Deere? Plow must be wider in width than tire, so tire can ride in bottom of plow furrow. With 14" rear tires you cannot plow with a 12" wide plow, you need a 14" or 16" wide plow.

Did you create one "dead furrow" then turn the tractor around, put the right front and rear right tires into the furrow? Tractor will be tilted to the right at a startling angle. PHOTO

With tractor tilted to the right you now need to level the plow, forward/aft and left/right. Forward/aft adjustment is made with Top Link. This controls plow suck, how deep leveled plow will sink.

Left/right adjustment is made via threaded adjustment on right Lifting Rod. Your right Lifting Rod is red. I see you have threaded adjustment on your left Lifting Rod too. Quite unusual. Objective is to get right plow and left plow in the ground precisely level, one with the other.

Hopless to attempt these fine right/left and forward/aft adjustments by eye. Use a level.

With tractor still canted sharply to the right due to front and rear right tires being flat in the bottom of the dead furrow, adjust the plow level front/rear and forward/aft. You have to plow a few feet, observe, adjust and plow again a few feet until plow inverts soil. Might need to make 10 to 15 adjustments to get it right the first time.

Once you choose a plow direction you have to continue to plow in that one direction. So 50% of your pulls will be with the plow sunk, 50% with the plow raised, being transported back to the last created furrow for successive pull.

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[farmeratheart]

A relatively easy way to get the first adjustment close is to put the tractor and plow(s) on flat ground. Raise the left wheel about 5 inches (the depth of a furrow)- I like to run the wheel up onto a automotive oil change ramp. Lower the plow to the ground. Adjust level as noted in earlier post with toplink and right sidelink.

Good luck

 

[LouNY]

Looking at the picture I do believe that the large lever attached to the 3 pt lift pin arms will adjust the side tilt of your plow.

 

[Fastball]

Wow! So simple.
I think the biggest part of the issue was unfamiliarity with the device. The plow was given to my buddy by his brother who had a different sized tractor. Us, being relative newbies, figured “how hard could it be, right?”
Part of a lesson learned.