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THEPARTYHOUND
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Well, the rears only moved 4" further out on each side, so it didn't really have too much impact on how the fronts matched up.
3 Bottom rollover plow (IH140 plow) questions
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cat fever
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Very nice, I'd like to know if you notice any difference when moving big bales around.
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Ah. I didn’t realize that, sorry. I guess I was accustomed to the extremes we used to deal with. 52”-72” wheel centre spacing.
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THEPARTYHOUND
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Honestly Lynn, I can barely even tell when I've got a bale on the front. Once you've got your tires filled you'll see what I mean. I think what I will notice the most is being on uneven ground with the plow on back. I'm guessing it will be a lot more stable on uneven ground over all.
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Good to know. I don't know when I'll get around to filling my tires, but it is on the list. :thumbsup:
Currently when I use the FEL I always put the ballast box on, so I am stable.
Currently when I use the FEL I always put the ballast box on, so I am stable.
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If you were to be doing a lot of plowing it's nice to have the inside edge of the front tire in-line with the inside edge of the rear, makes it easy to use the front tire as a guide for hugging the furrow wall.
But for other uses it's sometimes better to have them lined up on the outside edges, that way you know if the front fits thru a tight opening or is just grazing a fixed object like a fence post or wall the rear clear will clear as well without danger of the tire striking something.
Becore he delivered, my dealer actually asked which of the 3 ways I wanted the tractor set up, lined up on insides, middles or outside.
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Sure, that makes sense. Id be surprised if the fronts went wide enough to match the rears at their widest. I did notice I had to be careful up next to a fence. It was kind of a guesstimate if the tires were gonna scrub on a few of the fence posts, but all turned out well.
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After about 35 hours with the rears set wide apart, I gotta say, I'm diggin' it! Such a small change in stance really increased stability in off camber situations. I had the plow hooked back up today to plow up a garden. Last fall I had hauled about 100 yards of clay soil up to where I thought would be a good place for a garden and got it leveled out right before the ground froze. I placed our round bale feeders on the future garden site for the cows to feed and fertilize. I also mucked out the corral and loafing shed and loaded all this into the dump truck and hauled it to the garden site. In the end, there mustve been a solid foot of soiled straw, compacted soiled hay, and manure covering the entire garden site. I brought a big steel roller up to pack it all down as much as possible. Then I dug out the hillside that the garden butts up against and spread this sandy soil over top of the hay/straw/manure. Then I started plowing it all together. The clay underneath it all didn't really want to incorporate very well and was probably a bit too wet still to be working. It tended to come out as big clumps, but I just went back and forth over it several times with the rollover plow. Then I went after it with an offset disk and that did a pretty good job of getting it all mixed together. Im not sure how well it will grow stuff this year as the straw & hay have not composted much, but I might just put some corn or something in there just to see what it does. Or maybe something easy to plow in if it doesn't do well. I sure do like corn though!
So, the original point of this post was to update the rollover plow performance with the wider tires. It does work much better now. I did try running the plow without the stabilizers and that did seem to give me a full width cut with all of my plow bottoms. However, this also caused the big round part of the plow that everything rotates on to hit my hitch which broke the "T" handle off my hitch pin and dinged up the plow. It slammed violently one way or the other as I went off camber side to side. I won't be running it without the stabilizers in place again.
So, the original point of this post was to update the rollover plow performance with the wider tires. It does work much better now. I did try running the plow without the stabilizers and that did seem to give me a full width cut with all of my plow bottoms. However, this also caused the big round part of the plow that everything rotates on to hit my hitch which broke the "T" handle off my hitch pin and dinged up the plow. It slammed violently one way or the other as I went off camber side to side. I won't be running it without the stabilizers in place again.
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Good to hear everything worked out nice and sounds like NO problems with the tractor itself since you didn't say anything about a problem.:thumbsup:
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Nope, no problem to report! Everything is working good. My field is looking GREAT and ready to be planted. Just waiting for night time temps to stay above freezing. I will run the disk over the garden a few more times, or maybe borrow a tiller and run that through there, but it is about ready as well.