3-Point Hitch Why I can't plow

[RalphVa]

Check out the Keulavator gizmo on one of the supply places (Google it; I've forgotten who carries it). It's basically a 3ph tool bar onto which you can mount various earth working gizmos, like cultivators, rotary plows and maybe even a moldboard (not sure). I converted an old JD soil ripper, which was a tool bar plus cultivator tines, to 3ph and mounted 2 opposed discs to do raised rows. Could easily mount the discs in parallel and have a 2 disc rotary plow.

I'll include a picture. I had 2 top links on the JD tool bar so that I could adjust it many ways.

Ralph

 

[jeff9366]

The OP is in Canada, so I doubt he can order from Agri Supply.

I have my doubts a BX Three Point Hitch can raise sufficiently to lift Keulavator attachments out of dirt.

KEULAVATOR: Keulavator™ Frame, 3-Point Cultivator

 

[/pine]

The OP is in Canada, so I doubt he can order from Agri Supply.

I have my doubts a BX Three Point Hitch can raise sufficiently to lift Keulavator attachments out of dirt.

KEULAVATOR: Keulavator Frame, 3-Point Cultivator

Agree...I have a B series and with 3PH full up and my top link at full retraction my discs only clear the ground by an inch or so...

 

[ovrszd]

Your little plow is a sleeve hitch plow for a garden tractor. It is NOT designed to work mounted on a Three Point Hitch.

I think you are wasting your time. It took Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Three Point Hitch, six years to modify the horse drawn moldboard plow to invert earth properly behind a tractor.

You do not know how to plow, yet you think you can weld until it works. Unlikely. Both draw pins in Photo #2 are at the same level. Right pin should be offset ~~6"~~ higher, so when right wheel is in furrow, plow is level.

Buy a proper Three Point Hitch plow with a reduced dimension frame specifically designed for subcompact tractors.

Plows are one of the most difficult implements to learn to operate properly even when plow/tractor fit is 100%

Is it your gneral nature to be condescending or is it deliberate?

Why not offer guidance without condemnation.

I've saw you post some pretty naive comments but I didn't pounce on you.

Let's help the guy make this plow work. It can be done.

 

[wilk90]

Thank you. This pictures giving me ideas. I think I can modifi my plow similar way as on your pictures. i will try and le you know.

 

[atsah]

Is it your gneral nature to be condescending or is it deliberate?

Why not offer guidance without condemnation.

I've saw you post some pretty naive comments but I didn't pounce on you.

Let's help the guy make this plow work. It can be done.

Agreed, you can make most anything work including the OP's plow setup, adjustments is all it needs..

 

[oldballs]

As others have said, such as Milkman, the BX can plow pretty good. Attached is a close up of my plow on a BX. It took me awhile to learn how to use it though. You should be able to modify (top link mostly) your Sears plow to do a decent job for a garden.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[ovrszd]

Yeah!!!! I forgot about your setup Mike!!!! Thanks for posting!!!

 

[Egon]

The hitch as shown will not really let the plow be properly set up.

Get on the internet and look at pictures of a proper set up then alter your hitch so you can do the same. Its best to have one side of the tractor wheels sitting in the furrow. This requires one pin on the three point to be higher than the other. The pull point may also have to be shifted to one side. There should be adjustment for straight pull of the share to center line of tractor. These tow adjustments can be done at the attachment point of the lift arms. The bottom of the share should be horizontal, flat to the furrow. The top link will do this.

 

[stuckmotor]

I've used four turn plows and never could plow worth shucks with any of them. they would turn dirt but it was like trying to level a small mountain range to smooth it back out. I wish you the best of luck.

 

[oosik]

I've got 80 acres and the only area that has EVER been plowed is the old homestead garden plot - around 100' x 150'. So when we moved onto the property in '82 the garden plot had been "broken" last in about '52. Thirty years - but the Troy Bilt Horse did a great job and we had a garden for about eight years - until all the local indigenous inhabitants - pocket gophers, deer, raccoons , chipmunks, skunk etc, etc found the garden. Then it was simply a lost cause - they did not want to share - they wanted it all. We quit with the garden.

Five years later I got a wild hair - till up a couple acres - plant corn - freeze corn - make shine out of what we didn't eat fresh or freeze.

I bought a very heavy duty Pittsburg single bottom moldboard plow. Took a while but finally got the hang of how to set it up and I proceeded to plow up about an acre. Thats as far as I went - that turned sod REFUSED to be broken down any further. My poor little Ford 1710 4WD and my Land Pride disk harrow were just to light to do the job.

I finally smoothed the plowed acre with my LPGS - scarifiers down - multiple passes. - Kubota M6040. No longer interested in growing corn. Just a whole lot easier to buy what I need at the "store".

 

[atsah]

It gives retired folks something to do that they enjoy "if" the local critters aren't robbing all of it, I had a big garden a few years ago and like you the local deer, bears and everything else destroyed it, I go the stand for everything May to October and frozen stuff the rest of the time..

 

[massey driver]

I've made old horse drawn ploughs , brinly sleeve hitch plows , also made my own out of some plate steel. They all worked good. Lots of posts one here have good ideas etc;on setting them up. One thing not mentioned is that you need to keep the plough as level as possible. The top pin on a category [ 0 ] TPH should be 12" higher then the drawn pins. On a category [ 1 ] TPH the top pin has to be 15 1/2 " higher then the draw pins. Also it's best if the top link pin is straight up from the 3 pth draw pins. This will keep you plough level when lifted up or in the ground ploughing.
This is a pic of the plough that I made complete that I used on a old MF 10 and a old horse drawn plough used on my Kubota bx with cat 1 TPH

 

[wilk90]

For all of you guys big thank you . It giving me ideas to work on my adjustment, set up and mouting. Thanks to you I will make it works sooner or later.
Thank you.