IH 370 disc in disguise?

I just picked this unit up and my best guess is that it is a RED disc, although I'm not sure which one. Anybody know?

Its an IH 370 Disc. I have one in the shed that hasnt been used in 12 years. My disc has the furrow fillers on it and it is around 15ft wide, takes some power to pull it. What are you going to pull this with. Mine takes about 75 hp or so

This one has 12ft gang width on the front and 13ft on the rear. I will be pulling it with an Oliver 1650.

... and 16in blades on all gangs.

Yup it looks an awfull lot like mine. Think mine is a 37 though. About 11' wide. Has 40- 20" blades. I can pull it with my M farmall in sandy ground. Run out of traction before I run out of power.

Ben

Looks like the McCormick 37 that was my first disc 32 years ago. Mine covered 14' with the furrow filler discs on back. Pulled it in 4th gear with a 3010 Diesel. You did get the benefit of a good JD hydraulic cylinder with the deal, along with the green and yellow paint. The older vintage IH discs like that have the lift wheels outboard of the disc frame, newer models the lift wheels are inboard. In my opinion, they were as good as there was when they were made, and I've never had anything but IH discs. Have fun, your Oliver should pull it fine!! :wink:

i guess you must not run too deep or fast! we have a 11.5' 370 that we pull with a jd 4630 and duals. course, with the 20' disks, added drag (2X12), and cultipacker, that's quite a load. used to pull it with an 806D- can be done, but be ready to pull that TA.

(quoted from post at 18:32:57 03/30/10) i guess you must not run too deep or fast! we have a 11.5' 370 that we pull with a jd 4630 and duals. course, with the 20' disks, added drag (2X12), and cultipacker, that's quite a load. used to pull it with an 806D- can be done, but be ready to pull that TA.

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Never really thought about it, but I wasn't pulling multiple implements like you are. The 3010 had been overhauled with 3020 sleeves and pistons just previous to me buying it, and dyno'd @ 70 HP. I carried 400 lbs. of old Minneapolis tractor weights on that disc, to give it a little more suck. And I always disced with the lift wheels fully raised, unless I was doing finish type discing. The blades on the disc were at 16" front, and 17" rear when I upgraded in '82, and the blades were on 7.5" spacings. The 3010 in 4th gear pulled that disc at 4.5-5 mph, 50 acres in a 10 hr. day. I upgraded to a IH model 330. Same 14' coverage and 7.5" blade spacing, newer, heavier disc with middle breaker, inboard lift wheels, new 20" Earth Metal blades all around when I bought it. Same 400 lbs. of tractor weights on that disc to this day. Did have to go down to 3rd gear with that disc behind the 3010, especially first time over ditched corn stalk ground, but it would still pull it 4-4.5 mph with the throttle pulled down past the knob stop, and get over 40-45 acres a day. Pulled that same disc behind the 1066 for several years after I bought it in '85. It did a decent job at 6.5-7 mph behind that tractor, and would go over 80 acres in a day at that rate. That tractor would probably pull that disc 10 mph, but ridging kind of wreaks havoc on gravity/flood irrigated crop ground. Went to a 21' model 470 later, and back down to 5-5.5 mph. I think any disc I ever used did it's best work, with minimal ridging, at about that speed. Hardly use a disc any more, but that's been my experience with them.

Thanks for the responses guys!

Yeah, I noted the JD cylinder when I picked it up. Maybe that is the reason they decided to go with the JD green and yellow!

Was the folding hitch an option on these or is that someone's custom work? Makes the unit nice and square when parking it.

The disc needs a couple of the cane-shaded pins that lock the gangs in place, or a suitable bolt/pin as a substitute. Also have two blades to replace near the outside on the front-right gang. $600 seemed like a nice price though.

I only disc about 10-15 acres of bean stubble per year prior to seeding hay fields so it won't have too tough of a job to do.

It dont take much to run out of traction. I had a 15' MF disk with a bar harrow. I could spin out pretty easy with the old 706 ger.

steveormary

That's the only one I've seen with the hinged tongue. It would be handy though. Would get it down to 8' "wide" to put on a trailer to haul down the highway. I just had to break mine down last week to haul it to my new place. Not lookin forward to puttin it back together...

Ben

Dont let anyone kid you. Its am IH 370 Disc and a Farmall M doesnt have a snowballs chance in hell of pulling it.lol