Putting a D2 to Work

Hmmm - not getting much "traction" here, am I being un-intentionally rude or just asking the question wrong??

Here is a picture of the mole plough my D2 worked with for most of its life. (the Hanomag doing the pulling here preceeded the families ownership of what is now my D2 , and is driven here by Grandfather Zweiss on their farm in Southland, New Zealand)

If folk have pictures of this sort of trailed agricultural or earthmoving equipment I would love to see them.

Cheers - Foster

anyway you could borrow that plow or go run it whereever it is? That ought to do the trick.😄 How did the D2 handle it compared to the Hanomag? What kind of land did they run it in? I guess it needed draining if they were running a mole in it.

On the other hand why not try your hand at fabricating a dozer or find one. Might be about as easy as some kind of trailing implement. I expect you will find more to do with a dozer blade than a plow on your place.

Foster,
given that you're in Southland, and it's now almost winter, spend some time asking around the area for cockies that want some tillage done for spring, and hold off until then. At that point, you can pull a "big" set of discs or cultivator around and really work the D2 hard. I figure that even though you're way down south, there's still some summer chou to be put in and that there's some groundwork to be done. Bladework's ok but pulling a leveller or cultivator around buried up to the top of the shank for 10 hours does wonders for an engine.
I broke in new JD wheel tractors by putting them on the leveller and having them spend the next 4 weeks pulling dirt from one side of the paddock to the other. Worked a treat.


Cheers,
Neil.
I have a 22 up in Masterton that I wish I had here in Columbus OH to do the same for....

Here is a picture of my chissel plow behind my model M. This was taken when I first brought the chissel home. I used it last fall to loosen up the soil in our vinyard. The ground was so hard that I could only pull one chissel. Hopefully I will be able to pull more over time as the ground softens up.