Please Help Identify this Implement

James Howell

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One of my elderly neighbors gave me this disk.

He used it back in the 60s to cultivate a "truck patch" on my parents' property.

He does not want to see it go to a scrap yard in the future.

He does not know the manufacturer or model.

Any information on the manufacturer or model is greatly appreciated.

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I could not find a serial number plate anywhere on the implement.

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I could not find any part number castings on the implement.

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What is the purpose of this wheel?

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How should it be adjusted/positioned?
 

Purpose of rear coulter wheel is to help keep plow headed in the direction one desires to plow. I've never seen a 3 pt disk tiller that resembled this one.
 
James, that will really turn some soil over. I pulled a 5 disc Athens tiller on may Grandma's farm for years. Old 49 JD A would really sound off in 4th gear in clay soil.
Richard in NW SC
 
may be a number of names for this type plow, depending on the area of the country you are from.
disker, one way plow, disk tiller, etc,
attached picture is a Dearborn model with the guide wheel in front of the rear disk,


nice plow, should do a good job, but I do not think they were designed to till deep as all the disk are attached to one axle, however I might be wrong on that.

my old disk plow has each disc attached to its own bearing, with more room to turn a deeper furrow.

I remember seeing the large diskers as they called them, up in northern states and Canada tilling up land to sow wheat.
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I don't know what they called that wheel, but I would call it a tiller. Looks like you can get different widths/angles of cut. That plow, like a moldboard plow will have a lot of side draft. The tiller tries to fight that.

Richard mentions Athens. You might contact Athens Plow Co., Athens TN. They've been around a long time.
 

It is a disc plow. Does the same job as a moldboard plow. The little wheel at the rear rides in the furrow and keeps the plow running straight and true.

It is meant to turn the soil over, unlike a disc harrow that is used for smoothing over plowed ground.

The somewhat red color, plus the fact it is a 3 point hitch, indicates to me that it MIGHT be a Dearborn. (Ford)
 
Not a disk plow but a disk tiller made to only cut max of 5" deep in soil without trash on top. A disk plow will have the blades mounted on individually like a moldboard and they will be a lot bigger and lay at an angle not possible with a continues axle and a disk plow will handle trash and cut to normal plowing depths. That wheel is a guide to keep it running straight and they do have a very big side pull due to all the soil pressure being one way on the blades. My outfit was a John Deere clutch lift on steel we pulled with a Deere AR 1950 model and forget how many blades but think either 8 or 9. That unit to keep going straight had a heavy cast wheel back there and on both sides of the wheel were bolted on 4 sections of cast weight of about 80# each or close to 500# weight on that wheel to keep it in line. The wheel is like the landside on a mouldboard plow.
 
Yup, a disk tiller. A disk plow would have individual bearings for each blade as they are not mounted on a common axle. As others said, they called a variety of names depending on the location. Here in Kansas it would be referred to as a "one way" and they were quite popular years ago for working ground for winter wheat. They're more aggressive than a disk harrow but less so than a plow and were quite effective in hard, dry ground like is common here in late summer when the soil is being prepared for sowing. Most all I've seen around here are 8 to 10-ft pull-type versions.
 
TX Jim,
I bet the plow in your picture would turn some dirt,
I always keep an old disc plow around, if I want to break up a cleared fence row or some such,
they will roll over roots, rocks, etc and keep on going, where a flat bottom plow might get hung or break,

I have an old MF 64 Bent tube disc plow, works good,
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A disc plow and disc tiller are 2 different animals. I've seen pics in the old Country Gentleman and Farm Journals of disc tillers similar to the one in the OP's pics. Could have been by any number of national or local concerns.
 

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