Ferguson 12-2 plow

bcny

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I have a Ferguson 12-2 plow. The tail wheel is missing. Is this essential to proper operation or just
a refinement? If it is required, where can I find a tail wheel.
 
That is what keeps the plow running straight. The plows that do not have that have a long back landside that reaches as far back as the tail wheel. And no I have no idea where to get one. Think they were discontinued 40 years ago. Mine is a 1944 model year that have had since new and also the tractor.
 
as Leroy said, that trail wheel helps keep the plow running straight.

however, not all plows have trailing wheels. Infact most of the newer plows with kickback beams do not have them.
the rear plow has a much longer land slide, that I assume does the same thing as the trail wheel used to do and was cheaper to build.

my friend has an old Ferguson plow with no rear wheel, he just welded a long piece of metal to the back plow landslide and added a brace from the longer landslide to the plow wing.

note one of the plows in the pictures I attached is built that way, it has the newer kickback beams.
finding a rear wheel with all it attachment mechanism may be hard to do and expensive.
might could buy another plow cheaper than a rear wheel assembly.

have a longer landslide welded onto your rear plow or bolted on might be a cheaper fix if all you are going to do is plow a garden or small truck patch.
just my two cents
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The tail wheel is helpful in some conditions,but not completely necessary. As was said/pictured,a long landside on the rear will suffice. You can also set the curved/offset drawbar/hitch to follow straight/have correct 'draft'
 

They are correct on the extra long rear landside will work. Also the tail wheel from the later Massey Ferguson #62 plows will interchange because the #62 was a continuation of the original Ferguson plows. Also Ford plow tail wheels will bolt up but they aren't spring loaded but the bolt pattern is the same and they will work.
 

I hope you only plan to plow gardens with your 2x12" plow..

They are too small to do a good job for actual "Field Use"..and they plug up too often..especially in Corn ground..
 
if your interested in going "stock"

not my listings, both people lists fairly often on craigslist and yesterdays tractors classifieds in Ohio.
she has a lot of stock and gets parts often,
http://limaohio.craigslist.org/grd/5259623110.html
another fellow that has lots of plow parts...
http://limaohio.craigslist.org/grd/5288453511.html
 
I do not think these adds are from who you are thinking about. Mary does not deal in that new of tractors or for that mater IHC tractors. Ford what she specilizes in. And her husband retired from the Ford engine plant.
 
Thank you all, really good info. Maybe a project for this winter.
The plow was my fathers, along with the TO-20 tractor. That was the second new tractor he ever
purchased. He sold it about 1980, but kept the plow. So my brother was using the plow at
his place, broke the tailwheel. Took the wheel "to a guy at work" to fix. It never came back,
lost.
Yeah, it was a small plow. I remember, if the rye got too tall, it wouldn't always turn it down complete.
It got replaced by a large bottom rollover on a larger tractor.
 

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