Pull type disk?

Yes, we had one, back in the '50s. It had wood bearings inside a cast housing. When the bearings went out, we couldn't find any from any equipment dealer anywhere. Mainly because nobody seemed to know who made it.

I think it got scrapped, and we got a Case(?) disk that had a mechanical angle device that drove off the front right hand gang spindle.

Edited by TramwayGuy - 17 Oct 2016 at 5:29pm

I have a couple of IH discs like that. They work really well. Tracy

It's about worn out but I have one I think is a Dunham that's like that.

Have an AC 15 foot single disk, wood block bearings, still usable. Think these were from the 1940's. PM me if it's something you would be interested in.

I have several of those types, no disk leaves a better seed bed in my opinion.Think I have a couple IH,1 Oliver and 2 JD,usually can buy them at auctions for under $100.

We had a 'before 40's' JD 10' tandem disc with hardwood halves bearings (that appeared to have some oil impregnation type of treatment). They were long lasting if they were greased often. Separate hand crank for depth adjustment of each disc set (front and rear). This undesirable feature was replaced with the backup adjustment method sometime in the 40's. Hydraulics followed in a decade or so.The plus of the hand crank was finite control, which resulted in the smooth field mentioned above.Herb(GA)

I have a 10' John Deere one I bought for $50. I use it once every couple years on my corn patch. When I pull the rope it straightens out and I have to back up to set the angle. WD 45 pulls it real easy with 10 cement block added to the wieght box. I had to take all the blocks out to pull with the CA. Withe two harrow sections behind it it makes a nice seed bed. Using the CA I have to pull the harrow sections seperate from the disk.

Our old one was a Minnie Mo I was told. I don't know for sure, it was rust colored when I was a little kid pulling it around the field, and that was a long time ago. It wasn't real handy to change angle, you had to go forward or back just enough to get the piece of frame to loosen up in the hole, set it beside, and go forward or back to change the angle, and if you didn't get it right, on and off the tractor again. If you were lucky, you could get close enough to set that frame member in front of the hole you wanted and drive ahead it would fall in. We didn't change it much, since mostly farmed up and down a 1/2 mile of dirt road in those days. Depth was only set by how much weight you put in the boxes, what was left of them. And I wouldn't say it left a great seed bed. At least 3 to 4 trips over a field, then a spring tooth drag to finish it off.

I have three disks. The first one I bought as a Oliver model 232 12 foot tandem disk. Way too much for my MF-135 so I took the four gang assemblies off, and ran a couple 4" steel I beams front to rear about 4 feet apart under the frame and bolted on two gang assemblies at opposite angles making an offset disk. In plowed ground it pulled as hard as 2x 16 plow running 10" deep.

Then with the 4020 I acquired a JD plow with folding wings. It needed work and I used bearings from the wings to fix it leaving it about 14' wide. It worked decently making three passes after spring plowing. Then I added a row of spring teeth behind it and the seed bed was ready after two passes.

Another JD disk came in the wind break when I bought this house. Its harder to shrink, I think. All require a hydraulic cylinder to lift.

I went notill at the farm about 2003 and rented it to a strip tiller in 2009 so I'm not using any of these disks.

Gerald J.

Is there a disc that is not pull type?

I had a #10 Allis disc that I donated to Dale's museum.  I'm guessing he's still got it.  I believe my great-grandfather pulled it with a WC.

We had a 6' AC cover crop disk. When you backed up it folded the disk together. You did have to always turn left with it. Pulled it with an AC model M crawler. It would chop up Scotch Boom really good. Some of those stems were 3". Also used it for breaking timberland after pushing the stumps out. Some times second pass you had to fold it in some, it was pushing dirt over the axles. Blades were 24" and 12" apart....James

Ours was 8ft Oliver drag disc.WD pulled it.WE was in tall cotton when uncle Bill bought a 10ft snap coupler wheel disc with T-bar hitch and we got the use for shedding it.

Yeah Creston, I used one like that. It was wayyyyyyy before you were born. It was annoying as heck when pulling it down the road. If you find one today I bet parts are going to be hard to come by. I couldn't imagine one that isn't worn out.

There used to be an A-C dealer in Humeston. I'll bet if you drive the back roads around Wayne co you'll find one.