Large IH Disk Plow. [pic]

Don L. · Aug 20, 2012

What model is this? Looks like a fight for a WK40 or a W9 to pull it.
Don L.

55 50 Ron · Aug 20, 2012

Don,

I don't know the model number, but I agree it would be a load for a W9, maybe too much of a load! As a young fellow, I remember a neighbor pulled a 6 blade with a Case 930. We pulled a 5 blade with a Case 830. The depth of plowing is the key.

Ron (do you remember my visit a few years ago?)

Old-F20 · Aug 20, 2012

looks like it would fit just right behind my TD-40 :wink:

Bouncer · Aug 20, 2012

I have one very similar to that, but it has a solid tube running across the top where yours has the angle. When my dad and I got it about 13 years ago, I wrote to the Wisconsin Historical Society and included pictures. Andy (I think that was his name) told me that what I had was the first one he had seen, and he did not have a model number for it. Mine has P&O stamped on it, and IH inside the big C. So it must have been a design of the P&O Plow Works before IH bought them. My H knows it's back there just moving it around the yard.

Absent Minded Farmer · Aug 20, 2012

It looks close to a No. 99-65 Heavy Duty Tractor Disk Plow. I'm using an IH Domestic General catalog, from 1940, for reference. I've tried for the last half hour to access the older catalogs on the WHS site. The window opens, but it stops loading the page about half way through. If the window opens for you, the disk plow is on pages 52 & 53 of the Domestic Catalog #40.

That's a very cool plow, by the way!!

Mike

Don L. · Aug 20, 2012

Another view. Something looks to taken off, on the front of the casting, with the 3 holes. Hope it ain;t a major item. Don't see where it would go.
Don L.

Don L. · Aug 20, 2012

another pic. I believe the list assit spring to be missing.

Bouncer · Aug 21, 2012

Seeing it from this angle, your plow and mine has quite a few differences. Mainly being mine has 4 steel wheels instead of three, a straight forward tongue drawbar instead of a spring loaded plow hitch, a different wheel on the power lift, does not have the long piece running from the hitch back. I think mine is probably a few years older, as it more simple with less of the modern touches. I will try to dig up a pic of it and post it.

Nebraska Kirk · Aug 21, 2012

(quoted from post at 11:20:51 08/20/12) What model is this? Looks like a fight for a WK40 or a W9 to pull it.
Don L.

That looks like a #98 disc plow. Introduced in 1940 and built until 1963, production of the #98 totaled over 9000 units. There was also a #99 disc plow built during the same period, whereas the #98 had a 2 3/4" square main beam, the #99 had a 3 1/2" square main beam.

SadFarmall · Aug 21, 2012

Very similar to the Australian GL-70 Disc Plough. Mine has five 28" discs. Farmall M will pull it in first gear. Much better with AW-7 Diesel, which also managed well with an IH 14 disc plough. Farmall M Liftall was not strong enough to operate the hydraulic lifting cylinder on the 14 disc plough.
SadFarmall

Don L. · Aug 21, 2012

Golly, I don't remember your 55 50 Ron handle to your real name. Heck just call me , 507 433 0073.
Don L.

Larry B. 1486 · Aug 21, 2012

It' a number 9 or 98. We had a # 9 fourty years ago 5 disc that we pulled with a Super M but it had a lever on the front of the frame with a spring over the front wheel to raise and lower the front of the plow and a crank on the back to raise and lower the back and a rope to the back wheel to trip to raise and lower the plow. It did not have the spring trip hitch like a moldboard plow, just a loop on the end of the tounge that you used a clevis with. From what I can remember the # 9 was a 3-5 disc and the # 98 was 6-7 disc and think they also built a # 99 that was larger yet. The 5 disc pulled about the same in compairsion to a 3 bottom 14 inch moldboard plow. I do remember it did not work well if the ground was too hard, it would roll sideways.

Don L. · Aug 21, 2012

Heck , make a offer.

agpilot · Aug 22, 2012

Don: We had one but it was 4 bottom. In SW Mn wher the land had slight rolling hills is would not go straight across a field due to different soil weight. (Wider cut on lower ground) Pulled real easy with S-MD. Could have used 3ed gear but would throw the dirt too far.. It cut trash and buried it fairly good and there wern't many high clearance moldboards built yet at that time. By your pictures I will have to guess someone took a bottom or two off.. Because it would not plow in a straight line, I ended up using it the most. My farher had to plow in a straight line.

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