Something I don't understand about applications of below 40hp tractors

[npalen]

A question in mind when watching this video: On these tractors with the "quarter inching valve" as opposed to position control on the 3PH, can float be achieved utilizing the gauge wheel on the plow?

In other words can one drop the plow down on the gauge wheel and then give the inching valve a few more "down" strokes to ensure that the plow stays down on the gauge wheel in undulating terrain?

 

[oldballs]

Danged if Iknow.........I never did figure out that quarter-inching thingy.....nor did Ihave a gauge wheel. .. but I was happy with the result anyway.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[npalen]

Watched the video and sorry to say that I would be ashamed to post if I was Everything Attachments!. Might help if the moldboard was at least scoured prior to demonstrating. Hurts my eyes!

 

[LD1]

Watched the video and sorry to say that I would be ashamed to post if I was Everything Attachments!. Might help if the moldboard was at least scoured prior to demonstrating. Hurts my eyes!

It was painful to watch....

Couldn't really see if there was an adjustment ....but he kept referencing the coulter....and raising or lowering it.....but that dang thing needed moved left about 2"

 

[jeff9366]

In other words can one drop the plow down on the gauge wheel and then give the inching valve a few more "down" strokes to ensure that the plow stays down on the gauge wheel in undulating terrain?

I had a Kubota B3300SU with 1/4-inching for two years. I liked 1/4-inching.

If I remember correctly, it was hydraulic up, gravity down, float at the bottom. Same as the TPH Lower Links.

If I remember correctly.......

 

[MossRoad]

At first I thought you were referring to Mossy's video... I was gonna say, "He don't SOUND Russian"...

That’s what they want you to believe…

 

[Cougsfan]

I read you don't plough with any tractor under 40hp. At least maybe not on a new unworked field. Don't know if that's right, but it is what I have been reading on more than one site.

So all those farmers in Thailand who plow their field with a single Ox (I read that an average ox develops about .6 hp) aren't really plowing their fields? It's fake news!?

 

[BnRidge]

So all those farmers in Thailand who plow their field with a single Ox (I read that an average ox develops about .6 hp) aren't really plowing their fields? It's fake news!?

You neglected to mention the operating weight of an oxen, averages between 1150 and 1350lbs, depending on season.

 

[Gord Baker]

I read you don't plough with any tractor under 40hp. At least maybe not on a new unworked field. Don't know if that's right, but it is what I have been reading on more than one site.

If you don't have a front loader or a lawn cutting pull behind implement, what do you use them for? For example, I found a good price on a Kubota B6000e. It is only the tractor. I can only cut the grass with it?

Are all the old tractors over 40hp?

Edit:. I read the Kubota was 10.5 hp. My jd L110 is 17.5, but no pto. I don't know what I'd do with the Kubota.

You could plow with an old 9n Ford which was likely less than 20 hp. 2 furrow 8" bottom plow.
It depends on the soil. You certainly don't need 40 HP for mowing lawn. An old 44 Massey Harris pulled 3 furrow 10 or 12" bottom plow with ease in most soils in 3rd out of 5 gears forward. They were rated at 41 HP I believe.

 

[lslarry86]

I have a Kubota B5200 that's going on 40 years old. 13 HP 3 cylinder diesel. It pulls box and scrape blades for gravel road/driveway work including a little snowplow every few years, and it powers my PTO splitter and chipper. And yeah, it cuts grass too, especially thick roadside junk. If I hit even one root thicker than about a half inch, it does wheelies. That's all I need.