Allis chalmers disc

Pulled a 24 foot 490 IH in black and clay hill ground with a 1066 IH for ten years on stalks and plowed ground. Duals, weights and fluid.  Never had power or traction problems. It was tuned up to about 150 HP.

I always left a wing disk folded up for first time disking corn stalks, then in the spring unfolded for disking the seed bed.

Nick you need to talk to Randy. Get the Allis idea out if your head.

Well Im in Ontario hes in Illinois.  discs here are crazy expensive. Sometimes you gotta make do I guess.  

I have an AC center fold disk, an IH 470 manuel fold wing disk, and a 496 hyd fold wing disk. they all do great, and all pull easier than the jd disk dad had. they also do a better job than that green disk ever thought of! IH disks never did have good scapers, and now the scraper mounts are worse than the older disks had. my AC disk never had any problems with the scrapers. and it flexs good on uneven ground better than IH disks. and of course you can't disk with a center fold, folded up! but it has big blades and does a real good job of cutting and deep tillage. in order for deeper tillage with the IH disks, that's when I would carry the wings folded for more weight.

I wouldn't be scared of the disk nick. They are a great disk. The way my 7040 and 7080 are weighted they are within a couple hundred lbs. THe 7040 may pull it a gear slower. If you take a couple blades off you will be right where everyone says you should be. The wing wheels can be mounted on the inside of the wing so you don't leave a wheel track. Idk what your budget is but I doubt you'll find a 20-22' for that price as there are a lot a people in your position. With a Lil work you would have a great disk at a good price.

If you go look at discs in Ontario for less than $4000  You dont come up with many discs. I will not buy a John Deere 220 or any other Deere disk for that matter.  If this one works half decent Im happy. It only has to do 75 acres 2 times over in the spring, until I pickup more land. So I can always re blade it as I get the money to do so. I will drive within 150-200 kms To find one but not over the border. 

The Allis 2500 series Disks, were the best kept secret in AG. We had several, I would take these over anything, except for maybe a Sunflower.

Good to see you on here too.  I Was thinking I would be fine because I only have a small acreage.