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  • March 26, 2014 at 9:51 pm #82907
    PeytonM
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    how many horses would you need to pull a John Deere 2/14 plow? Its a pull type for a tractor, My brother has a one bottom I’m not sure of the size of it but it is also a pull type for a tractor. What size are most walking plows?

    thanks.

    March 27, 2014 at 8:44 pm #82908
    dominiquer60
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    Most walking plows… Looking at some old literature that I have, walking plows can be 6″ to 16″ in evens and sometimes odd widths. I have and 8″ and a 10,” my partner has a 12″ and a 14.” With that said I think that 12 and 14 are common, but they are easy to measure (from the landslide perpendicular to the wing tip of the share).

    We use an old Emerson with 2 14″ bottoms, this plow was engineered for horses and if you don’t need to plow all day long 4 horses can get some work done with it. Plows made for tractors can be more blunt and create more draft and need more horses. We also have an old Oliver 2 gang trailer plow for tractors, it has 14″ raydex bottoms and we use 6 on this plow. There is an ox teamster that has an old horse drawn vineyard plow with two narrow bottoms, it is meant for 2 animals and tight row spacing, his 2 steers pull it just fine.

    Width and number of bottoms can determine how many animals are needed, but engineering of the bottoms is a huge factor to consider too.

    Erika

    March 28, 2014 at 6:54 am #82909
    mlelgr
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    The thumb rule I have seen and found to be a good starting point as a minimum is: 12″ bottom = 2 horses, 14″ bottom = 3 horses, 16″ bottom = 4 horses. Condition of the horses, type of land, style of bottom, walking or rididng and how much weight has been added like a forecart to pull a trailer plow will determine how long you can plow at the given ratios. A common, efficient hitch on a two bottom trailer plow with a forecart is 6 hooked 3 x 3 on a rope and pulley system. This will put 2 in the furrow and 4 on the unplowed ground.

    April 1, 2014 at 12:38 pm #82930
    PeytonM
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    Well I was planning on putting a seat on this plow and just get a pole of some sort set up on it. I have 3 16H-17H horses that are really hard working horses I have two others that are 17 and 18h and they work but compared to the other 3 they can be kind of dingy some times… I’d say that the land is black dirt kind of like sand, its not heavy like clay but its not sand, its kind of light, also depends on what we get for rain, last year I tried to plow with a tractor and it was so dry and hard it didn’t really work well, I hooked on a 16ft disk with my tractor and all it did was cut the grass off and maybe went and inch in the soil.

    My brother has a pull type like I said before, that I would be able to use, I don’t think its larger than a 16. and I don’t plow or work the horses as hard as I could. If its really hot out I have a hard time dealing with the heat it just drains me so by two if shes really nasty out I wait till about 5 or 6 and go back out and work when it starts to cool off and work in to the dark.

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