Re: (ET) Plowing

["Elie, Larry \(L.D.\)" <lelie ford com>]

No, the plow will work with either.  I assume you are using the roller
topped bolt for the electric lift?  You can't lift it without that bolt.
If you have too, you can add another roller above and double back again.
I do that with a sleeve hitch cultivator (but can lift the single disk
quite nicely without a second roller).  When plowing with any Brinley
plow, you have to scalp the grass/weeds first as I haven't seen a
Brinley with a coulter, or cutting blade in front of the plow.  Also; I
don't think GE sold more than one size, but Brinley made an 8", 10" and
12" plow.  That's width of cut.  In each case, the plow flips soil just
slightly deeper than half it's width, so the 8" is good to 4.5" or 5"
deep, the 10" to 5" to 6" deep and the 12" is good for 6" to 7" deep.
You also should set the wheels up for the width of cut.  You want the
inside of the right wheel just grazing the soil cutting the plow width
you have.  Otherwise you can't steer and tend to pull at an angle.

Larry Elie


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Subject: (ET) Plowing


All,

Plowed the garden this weekend with my original issue Brinley one-bottom
plow.  The garden got about 8 front end loads of horse manure last fall
so its pretty loose soil.  My E-16 pulled the plow just fine and turned
it about 5 or 6 inches deep.  Deeper in some spots...I kept playing with
the depth adjustment. 

When I bought the plow this summer from someone of this group it had a
hand lift attached to the sleeve hitch.  As I already had a sleeve hitch
and a rear electric lift I sold the hand lift and its hitch off.  Not
sure that was a good idea.  The electric lift will just barely clear the
plow point on level ground.  Does anyone have any docs on the plow and
its use?  I am wondering if GE intended for it to only be used with the
hand lift.

Steve in Tennessee



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