Plows

[mitchmaine]

@PhilG 27013 wrote:

Mitch,
it has had some modifications in the back, not sure what’s going on there ?
do you think it needs a wheel out front ? would that help control the depth ?
phil

phil, looks almost like the original beam was broken and replaced. ?? hard to tell. i thought i might have one and i found it this morning with two cherrie trees trying to pull it back into the soil. it was a oliver and it had a jointer (knife), a guage wheel and a small horiz. and vertical clevis at the nose of the beam. i have never used that kind of a plow. no experience with it whatsoever. but i wonder with the plow shifting sides and pulled with the same beam, how much difference the horizontal adjustment might make. maybe none. but i think a guage wheel would be pretty important. that plow looks pretty beat up. but the point looks in pretty good shape. let us know how it turns out.
mitch

[Baystatetom]

Being a thrifty New England Yankee I hate to spend money and/or waist something good, I often find myself using whatever I have even though everybody tells me get a better one. That being said I think you can find a much better plow to start off with. I drug one out of the woods that had been there for fifty years and it looks better then yours. or at least you could make a good one out of the two. I’ll give it to you on a long term loan if you want to come to Massachusetts and get it.
~Tom

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