Hugh and other plow boys

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Hope this works.

If you see a good set of GP plow bottoms complete with frogs, built anywhere between 1930 and 1960 they will probably bolt up to your plow frame.

Your plow model number will start with a C and is probably a C-25, and the C does not stand for C or SC tractors. They were available as either small fork fast hitch for SC, 200 and 230 or in a Cat I 3 point hitch model. It is a Canadian built plow, built at Hamilton Ontario, precisely why it has the C ahead of the number. Notice the cross members between the plow beams. All US built IH plows had diagnol cross members, whereas Canadian built IH plows had perpendicular cross members as your plow does.

Like gab said all you need is complete bottoms from just about any IH plow from that era. Go for GP bottoms, as wear parts will be an easier find. Now, if you really want to go into competition plowing, send me an e mail and I'll find you a couple of IH ACE bottoms.

Oh sure. Where the heck where ya when I needed yer help? :>)

Tell ya what I'll do. I'll sell ya my plow just pretty darned reasonable 'cause I'm all done 'til fall and I really want a Massey plow anyway.

Come get it and I'll even load it fer ya free of charge.

Allan

Personally I'd look for regular moldboards. Even though your plow is 50s era those bottoms go well back into the 30s. I have two complete parts books with over 65 IH plows. Send me a photo of plow not hitched to tractor and I can give you an ID on the plow. Also check out the part number on the frog and I will be able to tell you the right part number for regular moldboards.

I'd go into more detail right now except there is an 8760 Deere waiting for me at a hedge row. After spending 10 hours in it yesterday then coming home to disk my garden with 140. Given the power difference, I fear the Deere may take off without me if allowed to sit too long in daylight.

I'll get back to you this evening, providing the Deere doesn't get the best of me. This old flesh and new iron, almost as fatal as farming with slow horses and fast women.

By the "missing wheel in front of the plows" do you mean the coulter disks? If your ground is free of trash (last year's crop stubble, weed stalks, etc.) it'll probably plow OK without coulters. However with coulters you get a neater looking furrow - and if there is any trash it'll cut slice through it so the plow rolls the soil over more completely. ...Bob

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