Help Identifying a JD transport disc harrow

Rich Perry · Apr 12, 2018

I need help identifying a JD disc harrow. The only picture I have at the moment is attached.
My Dad likely bought it in '51 when he bought the "B".
Almost all of the original markings are gone now and I need to get some parts.
Any easy way to identify this???
What should I look for?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rich

Tx Jim · Apr 12, 2018

A photo closer to disk harrow would help ID but my guess is RW or RWA. What parts are you needing?

wvfarmboy · Apr 12, 2018

closer pic would help a lot i thinkng aw or rw

WayneLee · Apr 12, 2018

AW ??

Tx Jim · Apr 12, 2018

I'm 99% sure it's not an AW. AW had pivoting rear disk frames with chains from wheel frame to rear disk frames for transport stabilization that I don't see in photo.

NEMOfarmkid · Apr 12, 2018

As TX Jim said, it?s probably an RWA

Leroy · Apr 12, 2018

Were not the Aw, Awa, Rw and Rwa all built after 1960 when the new generation, 3010-4010, tractors came out? He says years earlier as in 1951 and the only transport disk I know of from that time is the KBA. So am I wrong on the models mentioned in not comming out untill 1960 and if so what years did they come out?

SVcummins · Apr 12, 2018

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Tx Jim · Apr 12, 2018

Leroy
I'm 100% positive disk harrow isn't a model KBA. Look a date in photo below. After further research I think disk harrow is a model RW.

Rich Perry · Apr 12, 2018

Thanks everyone for the replies. I'll get some pics this weekend.
The bearings/bushings on the disc shafts are real worn so I'm looking to replace all of those this year.
Dad used it for 30 years discing 120 acres and I don't remember him ever replacing those so it's definitely time!
I replaced the discs 20 years ago and never thought to replace those....duh!
BTW, I am only assuming Dad purchased this when he got the tractor (wish he was around to talk to) but it seems like it's always been on the farm. Hope you guys can confirm the model or at least narrow it down for me when I get more pics.

Thanks again!

mijohn · Apr 12, 2018

I believe its an RW because it looks like it has round brace rods that goes down to the bearings, If they are flat irons, then it is an RWA. And I think that 9 inch disk blade spacing was first available on the RWA. I have a John Deere movie that shows a 60 john deere pulling an RW disk in corn stalks, in either 54 or 55 movie. I also have a sales folder that shows a 630 pulling a KBA wheel carried disk. And no one mentioned the FW disk which I have a 12 foot frame that's an FW. And I always thought that the FW was a fifteen to twenty-one foot disk?

Tx Jim · Apr 13, 2018

Best I can determine is the smallest size model FW was 13' 10'' utilizing 10 disks per axle.

Leroy · Apr 14, 2018

I don't think I ever saw a disk like that. The earliest rigid frame disks I remember came with the new gen tractors. And I have been on this farm for 74 years. I know the implements best for the years of 60's and older, not up on things after 70 or a lot of items from late 60's.

Tx Jim · Apr 14, 2018

(quoted from post at 08:49:17 04/14/18) I don't think I ever saw a disk like that. The earliest rigid frame disks I remember came with the new gen tractors. And I have been on this farm for 74 years. I know the implements best for the years of 60's and older, not up on things after 70 or a lot of items from late 60's.

As you can see the RW parts catalog shows they were built in the early 50's. I remember seeing them when I was employed at JD dealer in the mid 60's.

Rich Perry · Apr 14, 2018

Got some more pics today if it helps narrow it down.
Thanks again everyone!

Tx Jim · Apr 15, 2018

Only way to narrow model down to RW or RWA is measure disk spacing or possibly disk shaft size is 1'' square.

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