Lets See Your Plow!

[OldKat]

@jac 15666 wrote:

Hi Geoff. We priced up and eventualy bought a Pioneer plow.. After both plows were spec’d up the same, Pioneer came out cheaper than Whitehorse
.. though not by much.. I would just like to say that our choice of a new plow was based on the scarcity of sulkies over here and I like the kv bottom.. Also both companies were very helpful and friendly.
John

John,
Are there dealers over there for these cmpanies or did you have to order from the company and ship the unit?

[jac]

Hey Oldkat.. No we dont have any dealers for any American equipment.. ther is a few people bring in wagons,hitch carts and show stuff but I find them rather pricy.. I know they have to make a living but I priced up the plow from one person and it was going to cost £2700 and at the exchange rate thats around $5000 plus!!!. What I’m doing is sharing a container with a guy who imports antique tractors and it comes out of the USA in March. Pioneer are moving the plow up to Fort Waynn to meet the container ,. If I could get a couple more interested we could fill a container with horse equipment.. my next big buy will be a manure spreader. Joe at Pioneer offered to find equipment and even load it for us.. Will see what happens next year.
John

[OldKat]

@jac 15670 wrote:

Hey Oldkat.. No we dont have any dealers for any American equipment.. ther is a few people bring in wagons,hitch carts and show stuff but I find them rather pricy.. I know they have to make a living but I priced up the plow from one person and it was going to cost £2700 and at the exchange rate thats around $5000 plus!!!. What I’m doing is sharing a container with a guy who imports antique tractors and it comes out of the USA in March. Pioneer are moving the plow up to Fort Waynn to meet the container ,. If I could get a couple more interested we could fill a container with horse equipment.. my next big buy will be a manure spreader. Joe at Pioneer offered to find equipment and even load it for us.. Will see what happens next year.
John

WHOA! That would be some seriously pricey stuff. I thought I had an issue with shipping from the Northeast to where I live; most stuff I priced would double with shipping. I’m still trying to talk Mrs. OldKat into taking a “vacation” to Ohio, Pennsylvania and/or New York, but she is suspicious because I want to go in my pickup truck … pulling a flatbed lowboy trailer. Guess she saw through my rouse!

[Simple Living]

@OldKat 15675 wrote:

Guess she saw through my rouse!

They usually do……. 🙂

Gordon

[TBigLug]

@near horse 15639 wrote:

I thought you could “angle” furrow wheel in a notch or 2 to get a bigger bite from the plow…

I tried fiddling with the furrow wheel adjustment and this is a review of what happened (I’m a little top heavy so you might not have this problem)…

Good horses, stand as still as a rock while I pick myself up off the ground. No pics but that was actually the second time I went over in 30 ft. Soft landing though. I got to the end of the line and quickly readjsuted the plow. Apparently I went too far with the first adjustment.

Personally I’d rather have the White Horse but for me it was an easy choice for the John Deere. Given that I don’t have enough money for the shiny new one, the old reliable still turns just as much dirt as the new one.

[near horse]

Hey!!! I did the same thing last spring (2X) except it wasn’t from fiddlin’ with the adjustments. I just got into a spot where the landside wheel got too high and it felt a little tippy but by golly I was gonna ride it out – over I went like a big kid on a tricycle. My team just stopped and looked like- “hurry and get back on dummy”.

Too much fun. BTW – later on I was moving that furrow wheel adjustment as I was plowing to see how much difference a notch or two would make. One notch makes a lot of difference in how the plow bites.

2nd BTW – I’m buying the JD 272 plow in the pic (the shiney paint only looks like that in the picture).

[Richard]

Really good pictures. Just had a big piece of metal put in my back in October so I cant have that kind of fun. Think I will stay with the pull type tractor plow idea. Sure does look like fun though!

[J-L]

Big John, you’re a good sport for putting that one up for all to see. Just looking some sulky plows, they look like they could be prone to doing just that. With all the rocks I have around here (big rocks) I think I’d be bucked off my plow more than I’d be on it.

[near horse]

I want to know how someone was able to take those pictures. Are they “still frames” pulled off a video? When I got dumped, and there were plenty of folks around, nobody even noticed. Thanks for the pics.

[TBigLug]

😀 I’m glad everyone liked the pictures. They were stills taken by my wife. We knew grandpa had nearly came off in that same spot the last round. He got worried sop asked me to take the lines and see what I thought. She was ready and waiting when I came off. That was actually the second fall I believe. Kinda fun. I tipped it three more times before I hit the end of the furrow. Soft landing so no harm no foul. Horses hardly noticed.

[TBigLug]

Also, I mis spke. I remember that it was the rear wheel I had been messing with not the furrow wheel. You are correct, one notch ont he furrow wheel usually makes a big difference.

[Carl Russell]

Hey man, no resting on the job!!!:D

Carl

[grey]

We got a spot of sun today so I thought I’d drag old “Buttercup” out and take her portrait.

She’s an 8″ Oliver 10N with a brand-new red oak beam. The beam that was on her was completely dry-rotted, as well as riddled with powder-post beetle damage. It was still in one piece, though, and I used it as a template for this new beam.

The share and the landside are both pretty badly worn, so she isn’t the easiest-going plow ever put to soil, but it gets the job done.

I was at a plowing event last weekend and someone told me I needed to get some stenciling done on the side of the beam. Whaddaya think? Flames? Pinstripes? Valvoline logo? 😮 😀 Somehow I don’t think that was what he had in mind….

[mitchmaine]

grey, what if you took a router and carved in your name or your farm name into the beam? might look sharp.

[grey]

Hmm, that’s an idea! I think my neighbor up the road has a router… maybe trade him some router work for some parsnips! He has some kind of worm in his soil that does a number on carrots and parsnips, so he can’t grow them.

Although, the thought of something permanently routered into the beam kind of alarms me. Paint is so much more… approachable. I could change it if I wanted to. I think I have a problem with commitment.

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