Disk plow on Craigslist

FLOLDFORD

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Lakeland Florida
Seen this disk plow on Craigslist near me and was wondering if it is a Ferguson. Looks to be in nice shape but may be missing a few parts. I don't have one of these and was thinking about going to take a look at it. Can anyone ID it?
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It is either a Ferguson or a Massey Harris as I have seen one just like it with the Massey Harris tag, but 95 out of 100 you see have Ferguson tags. It looks fairly complete with the exception of the disc scrapers.
 
Ferguson I have one just like it,,, its a hard puller :( but takes on all comers rocks roots stumps... I use it in places I will not use a bottom plow other that that I don't like it... The price hummm may be good I gave $100 for mine but it was not as good as the one in the pix... $200 would be a very good price... You don't see them come up often a collector would probably jump on it....

Pick it up and check the bearings the disc run on if their is no play in them its a good'n... The disc should turn free... I have never seen one of'em torn up, broke are worn out... I have seen my share of Dearborns farmerized and junk...
 
My friend and I have two of these old plows.
His is a Ferguson like the one in your picture and mine is a later model MF 64 Bent tube, probably one of the last ones they made.

the older ones were called bullet plows because there frames looked like a large bullet, I guess.

They work good, but leave the dirt a little more rough than a regular flat bottom.

They had there place before trip beam plows came out. These old plows would roll over or kick out a root or rock and keep on going, where the non trip plows would hang up or bend a beam, etc:

However, to operate properly, the rear disk guide blade must be in good to very good condition.
If not, it will not guide the plow properly and the plow will pull to the left.
I had to replace the rear guide blades on both of our plows. used new plow coulter blades,

That may be the reason the old plows were set aside, owners did not want to fool with replacing the rear guide blades.

Some say that a Ferguson wrench came with each disc plow and it was stored in that tube, we never opened the end caps to see if a wrench was still inside??? who knows!!!

Just a different twist on plowing, if you have an old fence row or some rough rocky ground you do not want to put you A-1 flat bottom plows in, then buy the old plow and save it from the scrap yard. I would not take that kind of price for mine.
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Thanks for the replies. I'm going to try and get in contact with the owner and maybe go look at this weekend if he still has it. I don't intend on using it much but it would look good behind my early 9N. It might even pull it down here in this Florida sand
 

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