Anyone ever seen disc harrow like this before?

[MitchellB]

I brought home this 4 disc 2 gang 6 foot disc harrow last night that I traded for. It is in pretty rough shape, but I got more time to repair this than money for a nice harrow and only a small garden to use it in. First thing I noticed is the lift pins are too small for my catagory one 861D Ford, so I know those 2 will have to be replaced. Has anyone ever seen a harrow like this? I'm not sure if it is factory made or homemade, but it is heavy. The top main channel is 6 feet long. At one time it had clean off scrappers behind for each disk before they wore/rusted off. Anyone know who made it or anything about it?




I also got a couple of 5 disc gangs from other old harrows in the deal, that I may try to join behind this to make one 4 gang harrow out of it.

 

[jeff9366]

As it has a single row of pans, it is a Bush & Bog Disc. Boxes for weights are typical. Not a finishing disc.

"In North Alabama we call them Bush and Bog Disc, made for working in new ground with small brush. Once you go over the brush one way, do not turn and go into the tops of the brush. Go at them from the side. going at the brush straight on will find them coming up on the tractor with you and pushing you off the tractor. Lucky I was on an old h Farmall and went off one side of the seat, walked arond the draw bar and got back on the other side.

Don't run the plow in the same track twice it will only make a ditch."


"We used to pull them with dozers all the time.

The only problem is you can only disc with half of it at a time. It throws all the dirt to the outside
so if you move over a full width each pass you end up with the roughest field you ever saw. You have to let one half cover up the ditch you made on the first pass."


Here is a continuum:

1. Lift Tandem Disc Harrow

2. Offset Disc Harrow

3. Bush & Bog Harrow

4. Disc Plow

 

[PapaPerk]

As it has a single gang, it is a Bog Disc. Boxes for weights are typical.

Yep bog disc. Looks pretty nice.

 

[bullbreaker]

Yup like Jeff and Papa said . Judgeing by the original color it could have been made or sold by Oliver back in the day .

 

[2458n]

It is a old piece notice the square nuts on the bolt coming up from the bottom half. Been a long time since these were common production nuts.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Nope, in my opinion this is not a bog disk. It is a 3 point hitch double gang disk. A "gang' of disk blades has a common axle. This one has two axles thus two gangs. The bog disk that I have has two gangs, each 10 foot, one in front of the other. One angles to the right the other to the left. Front gang has scallopped blades. Takes lots of HP to handle, cuts DEEP, but in leaves the ground Rough. Yours looks like a good disk heavy built. Only my opinion and observation.

 

[LiveRoll]

Where I come from that is known as a ditch filler. In irrigated areas, a lot of farmers using flood irrigation will ditch, generally with a 3 PH purpose built irrigation ditcher, ( Like a small V plow) the areas they want to irrigate, and once they have finished, will "pull" the ditches closed, so when they are swathing / baling / recovering bales they won't have to by-pass irrigation ditches A local Western Canadian Company Kirtchner Equipment built a lot of it.

Cheers

Roger

 

[MitchellB]

Thanks for the replies so far.

Any ideas what these 4 large holes were used for in the front of the gangs. Looks like some big pins or bolts might have attached something there. Maybe the gangs are backwards and the holes should be to the rear?

 

[Xfaxman]

Thanks for the replies so far.

Any ideas what these 4 large holes were used for in the front of the gangs. Looks like some big pins or bolts might have attached something there. Maybe the gangs are backwards and the holes should be to the rear?

Looks like they could be for adding weight, if they were at the back.

If you turn the gangs around and swap sides, do the scrapers unbolt to be put on the back, like they are now?

 

[MORRISONSTEEL]

Love the terminology from across the country on this thread. Around us this would also be called a ditch filler, just missing the wheels in the center like on current units. Except we would use them to fill the tracks made by center pivots mostly.