Roy Stokes
Member
- Location
- East Shropshire
The above info taken from your very own website.
I am somewhat surprised you have read from my site given your commentary on earlier posts in the competition ploughing forum ! I thought you had some sort of dislike of the more technical ploughmen among us ?
it may be the cross shaft is too far over, as i said, its fully over to the land side
If the cross shaft is fully shoved through to the left, (as viewed from the rear) which brings the plough to the right, and the right wheel is fully to the left and the plough is still running towards wide then no doubt something is wrong with the plough, a narrower wheel setting should result in more cross shaft showing on the right of the plough as you are sliding the plough to the left to widen the front furrow.
Most TS 59's I have had through here tend to run best at 40 inches between the wheels (52 centres) for 10 inch work and 44 inches ( 56 inch centres) for 12 inch work, at 10 inch work, 52 centres the cross shaft normally protrudes to the right of the frame about 2 inches, although rarely are 2 absolutely identical.
In the photograph of you making your start, and again I reiterate it is difficult to tell from here but it would appear that the 3rd mouldboard looks low in the ground and a low furrow seems to be leaving it, by contrast the 4th furrow is piling up the soil, I realise you have the plough tilted up to make the start however the 2nd and 4th furrows leaving the plough are higher than the 3rd.
YL mould boards are notorious for moving on their mounts and getting them to sit still and at the correct height in the soil defines ploughmen from also ran's.
Also from the photograph it is easy to see how much the plough is crabbing by the angle of the depth wheel in comparison to the tractor wheel