Identify IHC disc harrow

shawhill · Apr 2, 2016

Would appreciate knowing the model No. so I can find parts.
This harrow has been unused for at least 30 years and sitting outside. It has lots of damaged and worn parts, but it was free.

I'm in the process of deconstructing it and will reconfigure it, using the best parts, into a single action harrow with just two sets of discs which will be more suitable for my small plot.

Oliverfan · Apr 2, 2016

I don't remember the exact model number.

My dad had one of those years ago and it was the poorest disk I ever used. You can't stack enough cement
blocks on it to make it cut. All it will do is bounce along on top of the ground.

John B. · Apr 2, 2016

Here's a link where you may find your answer. There are many pages but you can skip to the item you want..
Looks like the disk harrows are around page 300. You'll find this lonk very interesting.
1920 IHC Catalog 400 pages

Leroy · Apr 2, 2016

He needs something from 1950 instead of 1920. Believe No 9 or 10, might have an A behind it. And as far as the other poster about cutting if they are used as supposed to they will work fine and that is for fining up plowed soil, not expected to go out and cut up sod. Built for the Farmall C, H or M tractors. size in picture would have been for H.

shawhill · Apr 2, 2016

(quoted from post at 14:32:52 04/02/16) He needs something from 1950 instead of 1920. Believe No 9 or 10, might have an A behind it. And as far as the other poster about cutting if they are used as supposed to they will work fine and that is for fining up plowed soil, not expected to go out and cut up sod. Built for the Farmall C, H or M tractors. size in picture would have been for H.

I plowed the field last fall and just breaking it up and smoothing it a bit is just what I want to do.

rfridy76 · Apr 2, 2016

9A I've got one.Its 6' For H or Super C. My Super C will pull anything my H will.Around this country most 6'disks were wore out pulling them behind an M.People would get larger tractors but not machinery.It defeated the purpose.

Flemming · Apr 2, 2016

Not sure of model but 8 or 9 sounds right.
Dad had a 8 ft, in the early 50's. Pulled
with 1950 John Deere A. Always thought it
was a good disk. Better than Grandpa's
John Deere.

cleddy · Apr 17, 2016

I am probably to late to chime in. I would not I would waste the time trying to find the
good parts and remake it in to a single disc. You may not find any real good parts left. We
had a small one of those disc and eventually got a better one to use before going bigger
with wheeled disc. Our procedure was to pump 10 pumps of grease in each bearing since they
were so wore out that was the best you could do. I saved the old tandem disc out of the
trees but have a single 6' foot disk for the yard work & garden. As others have said they
are only good for smoothing up the dirt and making it finer. A single is about half as good
as a double. I think mine is a IHC disc -harrow and came with extra original wood bearing
inserts which would be easy to make if you wanted. Cleddy

shawhill · Apr 17, 2016

Cleddy, Always good to get more input.
This IHC 9-A was sitting in a field for at least the last 30 years. It had lots of worn and broken parts, mostly in the front section.
Buying new parts would have been too expensive even if I could find them so I decided to take it completely apart and rebuild it as a single action harrow. It will only be used for finish work in a large garden.
So far the only expense has been to weld a new eye on a broken link, buying some 1/2" rivets to reattach a couple of bearings to their brackets (holes are so worn that bolts and nuts would probably come loose), and some new fasteners.
As far as time goes, I'm sure I could buy a whole new implement if I charged myself for the hours it's taken to disassemble and clean up all the old parts. But that's not the point.

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