Disc for CA?

A six foot is best from my experience with C or CA. I would say that disc would be good for WD or WD-45 especially in plowed or loose soil. On the CA even with snap coupler I believe you will have tire slippage problems, might work o k with rear duals.  Leon

Leon n/c AR. wrote: A six foot is best from my experience with C or CA. I would say that disc would be good for WD or WD-45 especially in plowed or loose soil. On the CA even with snap coupler I believe you will have tire slippage problems, might work o k with rear duals.  Leon

Brian, I think that this is the photo of a CA & duels with his disc that you were refering to!

That disc can easily be handled by a CA if the hitch is set properly. A maladjusted piece of equipment no matter what it is will be hard to pull and many just think you need a bigger tractor. I have the same disc (28 blades) in a 20 series for my CAs and the only thing is without weights it will get light in the front.

Does it hurt to weight up the ca quite a bit?

This very disc fit hundreds of acres behind a C in the 1940's. If your clever enough to set the disc to soil conditions it will work fine behind a CA. If you think setting it at its widest angle and never look back you probly will need a D 19.



Edited by Dick L - 06 Jun 2017 at 5:31pm

I assume that the 100 series disc came out to be the perfect match for the wd45?

OK, I have a 'silly' question....
In the picture the right,outer tire is a different tread pattern than the rest. Does it matter at all that it is NOT the same? Guy up the road has 8 on his HUGE tractor, 2 are 'oddballs'.
Just curious.....

Jay

I used the 20 series disc for about 2 years without any added weight on front. It was light and I would steer with the brakes at times but the frontend would stay on the ground. I could not find the Allis side or front wheel weights. So, I made my own weights out of 1-1/4" steel parts that my employer scraped out. All I did was drilled holes in them and bolted them on the front where the cultivator bracket would attach. That added about 150 pounds which made a big difference on steering, no more braking. After about 3 years I made up a set of duels. This really made a difference. Before the duels the "CA" would pull the disc fine but also dig in. It's a little hard to explain. The tires did not "slip" but I could also feel the rear end go down when the disc was lowered. After the duels were added the tractor never had that sinking feeling. It just stood tall and proud as it did it's work. It really feels more like a small "WD" in the field.
I had to prove to many people from my family, friends and to everyone on the internet just what a small Allis can do. It was and at times still is an up hill battle to change the mind sets that people have about what can and can't be done.
When I first got my "CA" my dad could not figure out why I bought such a small, little, powerless, weak tractor. Then I picked up a 2 bottom plow for it. Oh boy did I hear how that little tractor will never pull 2 bottoms.
Now here is where the mind set comes in. My family has been using Allis equipment since 1938 when they bought the first tractor for the farm which was a "WC". As time went on they up graded to the "WD"'s and "WD-45"'s. Because my grandfather did not know how to setup the tractor or plow they only were able to pull a 2 bottom plow behind a "WD-45".
Well needless to say that My family was amazed that the "CA" handled that 2 bottom very well. They started to listening to me more but with skepticism. I found a 4 bottom plow for the "WD-45" and got both units setup. Again they were amazed that their "WD-45" was plowing with 4 bottoms. Finally the mind set had been broken and some real growth had begun. Now we pull five bottoms behind the "D-17".

Don't think you need more just because others don't know any better. I have never heard Allis over sell a tractor yet.

Sorry for the long reply, it turned in to little more than expected.
       
Here's a few more pictures.







CA Discing Video

Excellent, detailed description Dennis.  Definitely not too long, and well-received by us CA believers.  Here, here!!

Where does a guy see this old film?

Wow that was awesome! I enjoyed that.