John Deere walking plow

Aaron S. · May 21, 2016

Looking for any information on this walking plow. Can't seem to find much about it online. I bought it awhile back out of Maine where it was supposed to be used on an apple orchard.

Aaron S. · May 21, 2016

Try pics again..

OldFarmall450 · May 21, 2016

Aaron, my dad had mules, horses, and almost all the horse drawn implements to plow, plant, cultivate, mow, rake, move dirt. This was in the 70's and 80's, and I can personally tell you its an all day job to plow an acre of land with one span of mules.

But I digress; the implement you have pictured was what my dad, mom, and their friends called a Georgia Stock. The ground was too rocky where we lived to use one, and used iron beamed plows. I think the Georgia Stock was designed to remove the plow and replace it with a different style, like removing the lister such as you have and putting on a turning plow.
I hope that helps.

OldFarmall450 · May 21, 2016

BTW, I meant to say that's a good looking plow for something around 100 years old! Good score!

GreenEnvy · May 21, 2016

That plow almost looks like a 2 way plow where you flip the moldboard to the other side and the end of the field so you can go back down the same furrow. My neighbor had one with an identical mold board but it had a steel beam and was probably a lot newer.

Aaron S. · May 21, 2016

You are correct. It does flip over to go the other way. All of it still functions and seems to have little wear on it. Thanks for the replies. I was hoping to find a year this was produced?

GreenEnvy · May 21, 2016

And you said it came from an orchard so it would make some sense to use a 2-way plow so there are no dead furrows. You really can't determine the year a walking plow just what "era" it was built in. I would wager yours was built before the 1900s going by the design of the beam and the knife coulter. Congrats on the a fine piece you have there.

JD John · May 21, 2016

That is a very nice plow! I looked in my old pocket companions and couldn't find anything about two way plows but the beam, blade, wheel all look like the ones in the 1904 pocket companion. Are ther any part numbers on it? John

OldFarmall450 · May 22, 2016

Green, you are absolutely correct. I was at work and the crummy desktop pc has lousy resolution. i thought it was a lister, but I got home and looked at it on my phone.

Those were also called a hillside plow; used by farmers who farmed slopes. Dad had a friend who had one, i used it for a short time at a plowing contest north of Ft worth, the hook that held it from flipping over kept jumping out and causing problems. But it was wore smooth out, a good one probably worked better.

The hillside plows are more scare than others around here.

Aaron S. · May 22, 2016

A few part numbers are on it.... thanks again for all the comments and replies!!

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