Haywire
Veteran Member
Went out to a buddy's place yesterday and put in a couple feed plots for him. I guess between the two plots, it was about 1/3 acre. This was ground that hadn't been turned over in a long time. We both forgot our cameras.. 
I confirmed to myself that the BX just isn't cut out for plowing if the ground is hard and comes up in chunks. The wheel base is so short that it really beats you to death on uneven ground. My neck is stiff this morning from getting jerked around so much.
I lucked out in that the fellow on the neighboring property was discing up his feed plots with a real tractor, so he came over and disced up what I had plowed. Nice fellow.
The other smaller plot had much nicer dirt with no rocks to speak of. Plowing and tilling went much smoother. I did high center on my own furrow once and had to lock the differential to push through. :laughing:
The short wheel base jerking around is also magnified on any implement you have. The gauge wheel I fabbed up on the plow broke fairly early on so I couldn't let it float back there. It either tried to dig in deep or raise up depending on what tractor was doing. That will be better when I get a different stronger wheel and change the setup on the plow a little. After my buddy seeded, I was trying to till the seed in by just skimming the surface with the tiller. That didn't work out well because the uneven ground caused the tiller to also bump up and down, leaving a washboard effect behind me. I suppose I could have lowered the skids but that isn't a quick adjustment and required tools that I didn't have out there. I don't know how shallow it would have gone on the highest setting. It might have been a good solution for that problem.
As a side note, I kind of expected the gauge wheel on the plow to break. I used a lawn mower tire that I literally dug up out of the back yard. I also had it mounted with support on just one side, so the side load twisted it off the little rim it was on. I will have to make a fork for the next sturdier tire so it's supported from both sides.
This whole experience has me wanting a B2920 or B3030 even more, but for the 3% of the time that I would appreciate the B, there's the 97% of the time that it would be too tall and not agile enough for mowing the lawn.
Ian
I confirmed to myself that the BX just isn't cut out for plowing if the ground is hard and comes up in chunks. The wheel base is so short that it really beats you to death on uneven ground. My neck is stiff this morning from getting jerked around so much.
I lucked out in that the fellow on the neighboring property was discing up his feed plots with a real tractor, so he came over and disced up what I had plowed. Nice fellow.
The other smaller plot had much nicer dirt with no rocks to speak of. Plowing and tilling went much smoother. I did high center on my own furrow once and had to lock the differential to push through. :laughing:
The short wheel base jerking around is also magnified on any implement you have. The gauge wheel I fabbed up on the plow broke fairly early on so I couldn't let it float back there. It either tried to dig in deep or raise up depending on what tractor was doing. That will be better when I get a different stronger wheel and change the setup on the plow a little. After my buddy seeded, I was trying to till the seed in by just skimming the surface with the tiller. That didn't work out well because the uneven ground caused the tiller to also bump up and down, leaving a washboard effect behind me. I suppose I could have lowered the skids but that isn't a quick adjustment and required tools that I didn't have out there. I don't know how shallow it would have gone on the highest setting. It might have been a good solution for that problem.
As a side note, I kind of expected the gauge wheel on the plow to break. I used a lawn mower tire that I literally dug up out of the back yard. I also had it mounted with support on just one side, so the side load twisted it off the little rim it was on. I will have to make a fork for the next sturdier tire so it's supported from both sides.
This whole experience has me wanting a B2920 or B3030 even more, but for the 3% of the time that I would appreciate the B, there's the 97% of the time that it would be too tall and not agile enough for mowing the lawn.
Ian
