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NW Washington | In the 50's when I was first around pt or trailer plows most had been converted to rubber tires by either replacing the steel wheels or cutting off the spokes and welding on a tire rim. Rope trip plows could get you in trouble in wet or slick conditions because the land wheel would slip and or stop when you tried to trip and raise the plow. My dad always used JI Case plows as did most of our neighbors and we always had a tire chains on the land wheel tire to give it better traction when tripping the plow. I think the Case plows were called Grand Detour or Centennial plows. We had a Little Genius IH plow briefly but it left in favor of a Case plow. Our plows did not have trip beams, but they always had a spring trip hitch and were pulled via a twisted clevis on the tractor. I hit a RR crossing too fast once and the plow hitch jumped out of the clevis and the trip rope attached to the tractor seat tripped the plow on a black top road. I don't think the old man ever knew about that screw-up. | |
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