Plowing with turf tires and Sauder loader

[corvetteguy]

Here in NE PA the weather is warm enough to
plow the acre or so of field for sweet corn.
With a Ferg 2 bottom plow and a sauder (test port)
loader I had to make two piston strut stays so
I could uncouple the loader hydraulics and keep
the lift in the air.

The turf tires have a year round set of chains
but occasionally one tire starts to slip as
the plow runs into PA blue stone. If I catch the
clutch fast enough she'll keep running. If not,
I need to use a 12 volt jumper to get it running again.

Plowing into sod is a real challenge for the 9N

 

[Ultradog MN]

Those Sauders are pretty neat. But any loasder on the front of your tractor will cause you to loose traction. So I'm surprised you can do much with a two bottom at all.

 

[Mr. Bob]

The next time you have a brush pile to burn, take those turf tires, stuff some old news papers in them, add a little kerosene then stack on brush and light. This is what turf tires are most useful for. Put a set of 12.4 ag tread tires on your tractor, load them with calcium, install a set of rear wheel weights. After so doing your tractor will show you its real potential I'm passing on these comments based on personal experience. Putting turf tires on any farm tractor is like neutering a prize breeding bull.

 

[Kurt-NEPA]

Hi Corvetteguy,

Its great to see that you are making out with turf tires. I would had thought that turfs and the loader would have made for poor traction, but you seem to do well with the set up.

I've been thinking of getting turfs for my 8N with a finish mower. It does 90% of its work with the mower. The prevailing advise is to stay away from the turf tires, but my lawn sure doesn't like em.

Were are you in NEPA? - I'm in Tunkhannock.

Kurt-NEPA

 

[TheOldHokie]

(quoted from post at 07:11:36 04/29/09) Those Sauders are pretty neat. But any loasder on the front of your tractor will cause you to loose traction. So I'm surprised you can do much with a two bottom at all.

Aside from the quick detach/step through mounting feature the Sauder design sucks. The front overhang is excessive with nearly all the weight forward of the axle and lightens the rears tremendously. My 9N so equipped with unloaded AG tires didn't have enough traction to climb the grade on my entrance road. That's with an empty manure fork on the front. We won't even talk about what it did to braking on the way down....

I [u:ad048b4b10][b:ad048b4b10]gave[/b:ad048b4b10][/u:ad048b4b10] my cylinders and front frame to corvette to repair his loader. I kept the subframe, manure fork, and snow bucket. I use the fork and bucket on my Kubby loader and someday the subframe will be used to mount a nice 6' Meyer's snow plow I picked up. That part of the design is sweet.

JMO,

TOH

 

[teddy52food]

If you have any hills, it will soon be on it's side. Take that loader off or at least lower it.

 

[R Geiger]

I have a ford 711 front loader on a 8n that runs from the test port off of the pump. It has a shut-off valve and I can set loader at any height by shutting off the valve. Then i can use the three point for anything I want. The biggest problem is all the weight out front. I take the loader for most things.

 

[R Geiger]

should have typed "I take the loader OFF for most things"

 

[old]

One good thing it the loader sitting up that high will keep you from rolling over all the way but it will also be the cause of it laying over on its side. Lower the loader to the point it is high enough to do what you need to do and no higher and lock it there. It is easy to make cylinder locks from a U shaped piece of steel then you can plow safely

 

[corvetteguy]

I am in Starrucca

without chains the 9N can't get up a small wet grade.

 

[corvetteguy]

I am forever in your debt.

I now know never put any stress on the pistons
unless it is lateral.

 

[corvetteguy]

With leaky hoses and seals I can't use hydrolic locks.

 

[corvetteguy]

In the picture the lift is all the way up. For plowing I have it about eyelevel and take off the
6 ft bucket leaving the muck forks and trip.

 

[Kurt-NEPA]

Sounds like my lawn tractor - an inch of snow and a hill and its done. Chains are not optional.

Starucca huh, near Susquehanna. I'm near Lake Carey, almost closer to Springville, we are about an hour apart. Small world

Kurt-NEPA

 

[Ed S.]

My '50 8N had turf tires on it when I got it (no loader) and it pulled a two-bottom with some slippage. Those got replaced with 12.4 ag-bars with cacl and it's a completely different animal now (better by lots).

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