1927 International Harvester TRaCToR PLoWiNG At Its Best - reprint

Description

Tractor Plowing at Its Best
, originally published by The International Harvester Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1927. Reprinted in 2017 by
Engineers and Engine
magazine, Bethlehem, Maryland. 5½ x 8½ softcover, 32 pages.
Please note this is a new, photoduplicated reproduction, not an original. The accompanying pictures were scanned from a reprint, not the original.
”Plows usually leave the factory adjusted for work under average conditions. However, no plow can do its best work unless it has been adjusted to suit the actual conditions under which it is being used. The modern tractor plow has all the adjustments necessary for the performance of first-class work under all usual plowing conditions. If a poor job is done with a tractor plow, it is, in almost every case, due to improper adjustment, or to extreme conditions…. The purpose of this book is to place before the tractor plowman, in a form which will enable him to grasp it quickly and easily, the information necessary to adjust the modern tractor plow to get a hundred per cent perfect work…. The principles of adjustment illustrated in this book will apply to rigid frame plows of any manufacture.”
Summary of Contents:
Tractor Plowing
Preliminary Adjustments
Rolling Coulter
Opening A “Land”
Hitch
Spring Tension
The Rear Wheel
The Front Wheel
The Jointer
Shares
Rear Wheel Scraper
Hanging Cutter
Oiling
Principles of Draft in Tractor Plows
The Center of Draft
Results of Too High Hitch
If Hitch is Too Low
The Tractor Drawbar
Lateral Hitch
Conditions Affecting Line of Draft
Better Than Guessing
Hitching Too Far to Right
When Tractor is Run on Land
The Front Furrow Wheel
Soil on Wheel Affects Depth
How to Sharpen Steel Plow Share
To sharpen a plow share properly
”The average blacksmith, after removing the share from the plow, plunges it into a big broad fire to heat, preparatory to sharpening, oft-times setting it on edge in the fire. This is wrong, as it permits the heat to extend over the entire surface of the share, withdrawing the hardness that the manufacturers were so careful to conserve. It also causes the share to warp and lose its original shape, causing annoyance in replacing the share on the plow.”
Suction of Plow Shares
Worn Shares Waste Time, Money and Patience
Bottom Suck
Two Types of Shares
Side Suck
Methods for Laying Out Lands and Plowing With Tractors
Two Methods of Tractor Plowing
Reduce Dead Furrows Without Additional Idle Travel
Plowing Round and Round
Turning to the Right
Turning to the Left
Don’t Plow the Same Way Every Year
Irregular Fields
Plowing Round and Round Turning Square Corners
McCormick-Deering FARMALL All-Purpose Row-Crop Tractors (one page ad showing the Farmall 14, 20, and 30)
McCormick-Deering Standard Farm Tractors (one page ad showing the McCormick-Deering W-30)
TracTracTors (one page ad showing the International T-40)
McCormick-Deering Tractor Plows (one page ad showing the McCormick-Deering No. 8 Little Genius)
McCormick-Deering Tractor Disk Plows (one page ad showing the McCormick-Deering 34-3)
McCormick-Deering Line (two page ad showing a small picture of each type of equipment offered by McCormick-Deering: including, grain binders, harvesters, mowers. Rakes, hay loaders, hay presses, planters and listers, beet implements, potato planters and diggers, cultivators, corn binders and pickers, ensilage cutters, huskers and shredders, corn shellers and feed mills, farm wagons and trucks, soil pulverizers, tillage implements, engines, motor trucks, threshers, cream seperators, milkers and milk coolers, cane mills, grain drills, manure spreaders, and stalk cutters)