Plow Discussion Below

miner09

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I have a T-AO-28 and 14-AO-28 that has both coulter and joiner. The joiner helps turn weeds and etc over. How common are the joiners? That's what I call them.
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There are two types of jointers available for these plows. It is recommended that the Plain Blade Jointer be used on the 12 & 14 inch plows and the Winged Blade Jointer used on the 16 and 18 inch plows in all conditions where a jointer is desirable. After looking at the pictures of the two jointer types I can not tell what the difference is as they both look the same to me.
 
How common are the jointers? I really do not know however I do know they are pricy if and when you can find them, especially if you get the jointers and jointer arms together. You mentioned the jointers help turn the weeds. I was not aware of this, only because of looking at pictures I thought they were to keep the dirt from accumulating on the coulters. However after thinking about that it is only cleaning one side of the coulter. HMMMMMM
 
We call them skimmers, they do skim the top off the ground?. We would not think of ploughing ley ground without skimmers.
Sam
 
Surely Tony's one and a half furrow plough is a dearborn plough?.....I see it has the skimmer arms but, alas, no skimmer......
Sam
 
I took my extra set apart and could not find any ID on the jointers. I am sure the ones on my show plow do have ID marks on them. I also have the weed hook brackets and now must get new weed hook wires made.
 
I thought they were called skimmers but the older gents call them jointers so that what I called them. I know people from Canada calls them jointers.
 
(quoted from post at 23:12:20 04/12/14) How common are the jointers? I really do not know however I do know they are pricy if and when you can find them, especially if you get the jointers and jointer arms together. You mentioned the jointers help turn the weeds. I was not aware of this, only because of looking at pictures I thought they were to keep the dirt from accumulating on the coulters. However after thinking about that it is only cleaning one side of the coulter. HMMMMMM

I took a screen shot of the skimmers working on the Ferguson Art of Ploughing video. You can see it cutting about a 2 or 3 inch slice off the top of the furrow and rolling it into the furrow bottom. All they are for is to keep weeds from sticking out at the edge of the furrows. Ferguson called them skimmers on his video. Ford has always called them jointers. Keep in mind that Ferguson did make plows that did not have skimmers or jointers on them. They had a flat arm that bolted onto the coulter and the chain came from it to the plow frame.

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Yep, I just looked my collection over this evening, yes my Ferguson butterfly is the only one with - old fellas call 'scrapers' around here. Those that ever seen or remember them. That plow wasn't used very much at all the lasy 60 odd years. A couple acre truck farm patch.
My bet they lasted a few years, bent, bowed, worked loose, then got tossed as far as the pisan could throw it. Then, a year or two later, he threw the coulter on the same fence line or stonewall. So yeah, they are around- some where in the weeds...
 
(quoted from post at 02:39:17 04/13/14) Yep, I just looked my collection over this evening, yes my Ferguson butterfly is the only one with - old fellas call 'scrapers' around here. Those that ever seen or remember them. That plow wasn't used very much at all the lasy 60 odd years. A couple acre truck farm patch.
My bet they lasted a few years, bent, bowed, worked loose, then got tossed as far as the pisan could throw it. Then, a year or two later, he threw the coulter on the same fence line or stonewall. So yeah, they are around- some where in the weeds...

Tony, I forgot to tell you that I had found the weeds they were buried in...lol. I have a few more pieces that aren't in the pic. A couple more jointer arms and coulters. I've been picking these up for a while now.

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Holy cow Jason! Looks like the farmers got P O'd at them before the paint even wore out! That's quite a stash of neat ol do dads.
 

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