The C-20 Fasthitch Plow...

My father bought this plow at auction in the Spring. It was on a pallet, in pieces. The fella that owned it said it was all there... I have no idea what he gave for it.

So it was delivered to me on a pallet, in pieces, just like he bought it, 6 or so months ago. My Local IH dealership parts guys are a great bunch and made some photocopies of the parts manual exploded views and BOM's for me.

According to the paint committee decisions this plow was to have a red main frame and beam, blue tailwheel assy and the coulters and bottoms were to be whatever color was currently used on other plows.

This plow had been blasted and primed. The frame had been repainted red. I had to disassemble a few parts on the tail wheel assembly and found out that it in deed was originally Harvester blue but the wheel itself was white or cream. Since the paint on the frame was well beaten I have cleaned it up and reshot it.

This plow has plow chief bottoms. They consist of a 1 piece moldboard, a disposable point and a disposable share. On the pallet I found the used points and worn out shares along with new points and shares in order to rebuild the bottoms. One moldboard has been broken and rewelded and the curvature to meet the point isn't exaclty correct. We'll work on that. During disassembly of the bottoms to install the new points and shares I found that they had originally been painted black. So that is what they'll be once again... This is all I have left to do, aside from reassemble them to the frogs.

One interesting tidbit. The bracket that ties the inside beam to the cross bar has been broken and welded. According to notations on the photocopies from my IH dealer this apparently is a common failure as this part number is circled and noted to be to this plow model and common failure item.

This plow also utilizes the small fasthitch points. Therefore in order to use this plow on a fullsize fasthitch receiver you must use 1/2 thick spacer plates. These consist more or less of a piece of steel measuring 1/2 x 1 1/4 x 12. The originals had a round dowel protruding through the bottom that fit into a pocket in the receiver to keep it from moving forward. I prefer to cross drill and put a 3/8 roll pin crossway through the end so they don't slide inside of the reciever. This doesn't keep them from falling on the ground when you unhitch though. But over the years the round depression in the fullsize receiver fills with rust and dirt and is difficult to clean out and keep clean.

This will be a nice addition to the collection which also includes a C-200 fasthitch disc plow which was also a Super C implement.

Rootsy, Looks like you did an awesome job on it. It`s a lot more time consuming than a guy thinks. I`ve got a few C-20`s and a C-10 ( 1 bottom) restored and painted and thought I could whip one out in no time, but to do them right ,ya gotta take em apart. I see you have disc coulters on the plow. They weren`t very common around my parts ( NE Wisconsin)but I picked up a #211 fast hitch plow that had them on. I took the plow to a couple of plow days and I gotta say they worked better than I thought they would. If you can,post a pic when you have it all back together .I`d like to see it as I`m a fast hitch fan and collector. Probably 30+ implements.

I had two of them for awhile and sold one last year. I have used both of them. Last weekend I ran it for a couple hrs. I wish I had more to do to clean it up good. I get a lot of comments about how good of a job it does. I also have a disc and planter but I have not used them "yet". I enjoy them; yours looks great I want to redo all my implements over the next couple years.