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Farmall M pull 10 foot disc ??

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Sam F.

10-21-2007 10:16:02




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Will a good running M handle a 10 foot disc in heavy soil ?? How about a 12 footer ?? Also, will a 300 do better or worse ??? Thanks




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Frank Hoehle

10-24-2007 19:29:25




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 Re: Farmall M pull 10 foot disc ?? in reply to Sam F., 10-21-2007 10:16:02  
I put in 3 or 4 acres of potatos, a few of corn, pumpkins, etc. my M is my tillage tractor. I have a 10" disc with 18" blades on it, and it is heavy. I run 3 sets of wheel weights, and bury the discs to the hubs (taters, gotta have nice deep ground) and dont have any trouble. I use 2nd or 3rd gear. I bored to put 450 sleeves in, so really it is powered like a 450, but before i did. I could always pull it in 2nd gear. Use that M like the horse it is.

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Len Rahilly

10-22-2007 10:11:36




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 Re: Farmall M pull 10 foot disc ?? in reply to Sam F., 10-21-2007 10:16:02  
I have an original IHC brochure for the H and M, from the early 40s. It says the M "will pull a 9-foot double disk harrow or other implements of similar draft requirements." They claimed three 14 or 16-inch bottoms, too, but my recollections of the experience of local farmers was that the original M's were pretty marginal for that kind of load. I've been away from active work on a farm for quite a few years, and the other fellows who write in have obviously a lot more information than I do about types of disks, number of disks, etc. The harrows I used back in the 40s and 50s had been made in the early 30s, and didn't have very big disks. Possibly less of a load than some of the big jobs of today. I do remember that freshly-plowed ground made a really heavy load for a double-disk harrow, especially if it was set rank to really dig in.
Another thing to think about is that modern tractors are designed to pull their loads faster than the tractors of the 30s and 40s. Steel-wheeled tractors wouldn't pull their "rated load" above about three miles per hours because of huge power losses at the lugs. A lot of the advertising back in the 20s and 30s talked about "plowing gear," which was usually in the neighborhood of 3 mph. The next generation of tractors (M and other letter-series) were clearly designed to do their heavy work in second gear, like their predecessors, so we can't expect them to rip a big plow down the furrow at 4 or 5 mph like today's tractors seem to do. I don't know much about modern plows, but they may have different moldboard designs to make them easier to pull at higher speeds.
(I'd like to hear from anybody who knows if this is true about modern plows; I'll monitor this site).

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gene bender

10-21-2007 15:34:45




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 Re: Farmall M pull 10 foot disc ?? in reply to Sam F., 10-21-2007 10:16:02  
We pulled a 10ft I-H wheel disc in all kinds of soil with two sections of harrow. You have the power but traction can be a problem.



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Hugh MacKay

10-21-2007 13:41:50




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 Re: Farmall M pull 10 foot disc ?? in reply to Sam F., 10-21-2007 10:16:02  
Sam: Lot depends on the disk, Today we can buy disks anywhere from 16" to 30" blades and anywhere from 300# to 1,000# per blade. I had a 10', 26" blades, about 700# per blade, and it would make a 100 hp grunt. On the other hand you get a 10', 18" blades 350# per blade and the M will hike right along with it.



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jwal10

10-21-2007 10:31:02




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 Re: Farmall M pull 10 foot disc ?? in reply to Sam F., 10-21-2007 10:16:02  
Yes an M will pull a 10' disk, A 12'? Depends on disk, I have pulled a 12' 370 with an M, 14.9x38's,weights and filled tires. I pull a 8' 370 with an H and a 300 is just an updated H.A 400 is an improved M...James



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