A view I haven't seen in 20 years

Yesterday I plowed. 

I should have looked more closely at the weather forecast. It is raining today. This is the worst thing that can happen on our soil. It will turn dry and card on top and stay wet underneath. It will be a mess...

We are planting alfalfa so thought it was time to plow. There is a definite hard pan. We do have a decent four bottom rollover plow but it requires singles and a fair amount of front end weights.

I drug the old Melroe 911 plow out of the bushes for this misadventure.  When Herschel went out of business we bought a set of plow shares for the Melroe as they were the last place you could buy them. The old shares were so bad it would no longer go in the ground.

So why would we use a pull plow in the 21st Century?

Because I was too lazy to pull the duals off the White 2-155 FWA and the 2-135 has developed issues once again.  Also the 2-155 I was going to use has a leak in the lower 3 point arm seal and I don't feel like working on it. Have to keep the duals on the 2-155 I use for no-till as that is going to happen as soon as the next field drys out. 

Also, I wanted to use the G1355 which doesn't have three point but it was stuck on the pellet mill and didn't have the dual tires. 

Now that is a pathetic way to farm.

This is a five bottom Melroe 911. It is actually plowing level. Supposedly it is 5 18" bottoms but it appears to have 16's on a frame built for 18's. They are the AC bottoms which are not as good as the Moline/Oliver bottoms. It is pulling very hard in our clay soil. I went from 3.2 mph to 4.1 mph by tightening up number 3 injector line. I think fuel consumption is around 10 gal per hr. I swear I can see the fuel gauge needle slowly and steadily move towards empty...