Someone should start a charity to help allistairc123 get is sight back, Poor fella didn't see the the rock, and thought it was too much power. I feel really sorry for him. LOL
Clearly the whole video is about the rock !. The description means , that a smaller tractor would have been stopped in it's tracks by the rock and the plough would have been fine, but the county had too much power and traction therefor broke the plough
+Max Nuber True. It would pull three blades. And it would brake one when it hits the damn rock. Granted some tractors out there are beasts, but on a tractor traction and proper gears backed by a good torque engine are more important than a engine with hundreds of Hp. Also each tractor has a purpose and a rating. I bet there are many places you cant use this bigg old beast. Still fun to watch.
Not much out there from the same era matching the countys in pulling like this, but also these tractors can take about 40-45 degrees vertical before tipping, which is why alot ot these Countys were used in much of the timber-harvesting in harsh areas where other machines didnt make it. when it comes to pushing and pulling, these almost perform like a wheelloader in sheer strength. Only thing missing is a converter transmission, instead of the manual. We also used to put tracks on these, as they have independent front diffrentials driven from each of the rear diffrentials. This means, one push the brake on one side and can steer like a tanks with tracks on. Great video! Its not about the HP, but the fact that other tractors would have been stopped instantly, especially uphill. And the driver would have knocked his head in the window at that speed...but not with the County...
Just broken the shear bolts, as it's supposed to. I worked on those County's and we were the importer of those Lemken 7 furrow reversibles in the 70's.
As a teanager I was plowing with a John Deer B and 2 bottom 44H plow when I hit a rock about twice the size of that one. Knocked me off the seat straight into the steering wheel when the tractor stopped dead in its tracks.
Depends on the plough; some have a release mechanism that makes the plough to flip backwards; less damage and easier to get back in place. (The one I saw was a 80's JD plough, I don't remember the number of "bottoms" on it though.)
Claude Hébert ive trip one of my bottoms on big root. and a farmall trip his trl lift mechanism around goofy. i used my loader to lift his plow up so we could flip his lift back in place and i borrowed his hammer to pound my latch loose so it would reset. no damage done on his plow or my 810 series 3 bottom plow
Ouch. Pretty serious rock, but I now remember why I really loved the massive improvement when we moved up to our first automatic reset 6 furrow vari-width IH plow :) Rocks the size of that one unfortunately weren't that rare in our area and the IH was able to handle even bigger ones than that without serious incident even though we had enough horsepower to pull it at rather high speed.
Shear bolts and Lemken, the 'Agro Vision' company was founded in 1780 as a forge by Wilhelmus Lemken. The company remains a family business today and is still cultivating the tradition of its products, which are generally named after precious stones. It's German.
for rocky terrain use plough with springs or hydro accumulators, they allow that the parts go up instead to break of, ofc if it is not rocky then u need to have reserve security parts to replace the broken ones, its better that they break than the poughs body.
Its a vintage plough at a vintage event with no springs so when it hit the stone the plough cant trip to save plough boards also tractor was ploughing to fast and not expecting big stone = broken plough
I'm from Russia, my grandfather told me 20 years did not pray to plow under Kursk afterr WW2, as many plows were broken in the fields of tank battles. It's good that they got a stone, not a mine
1:30 "Pulling power" ? Nah just typical Lemken plough with a very thin leg . He probably used HT bolts instead of shearbolts too. I have hit enormous boulders with a KV plough but never broke a leg only the (Correct KV ) shearbolt and then have the whole body swing up out of the way.
They don't make rocks like they used to. They must have missed that one for years. If the plough hadn't busted it would have stopped the lot in it's tracks.
With the International plow, you stay in your tractor, put it in reverse, and back up to reset the trip beam spring pin. A whole lot less labour intensive:).
Ya, i prefer the safty mechanisms that just kick it back. Barrowed an old 2 bottom that had it. Rusted tight to almost being 1 piece that when it gone off i required a chain going under my tire to reset it. Had that sucker working like new from sitting in a field for 30 years. Then the owners son wanted it back. Just like the day after i barrowed a post hole digger. He was going to use it but its still sitting in the tree as we left it after bringing it back..
Plow was a piece of crap, buy an international with the super chief mouldboards and the heavy trip beam and you won't be losing parts in the field. Nice size rock, surely you must have hit that one before:/
the plow has shear off bolts, its designed to fail when hitting a rock/stump, the farmer can just get out of his tractor with his new bolts and a wrench and the bottoms back on within minutes :D
The tractor didn't had too much power! it was not that powerful, when one watches the video! It could hardly pull all those ploughs. The big rocks were the problem. Easy to see!
No incompetent driver broke the plough, if he'd been paying attention and clutched it wouldn't of happened, how long did it actually take for him to realise and stop?
i had that too last week when i was plowing whit a 10 furrows plow from my neigthbours becuz we just sold ours and were waiting for the new one and i was pulling is whit our deutz fahr agrotron 7230 ttv and wel not only some furrows broke but even the wheel broke of so all the weight was on the tractor for the drive home it was almost 30km
That rock didn't drop out of the sky, the land worker/owner should have had that removed when the field was last reseeded, also the driver got carried away and opened up the tractor, with all that power something has to give, Nice outfit all the same.
An Allis D-15 would have destroyed this shitty plow. Truly the rock did it, no matter what was pulling it. Spring load the moll boards and you wouldn't have this problem.
All that seems to be required is a few new shear-bolts. Repair cost just a few pounds. Pity about that stone which was probably put there by a glacier during the Ice Age.
After hitting a boulder the forces snapped some of the plows like twigs before damage was done to the plow as the tractor pulling the plow survived to work another day.
