Need A Furrow Wheel....

Bought a NICE Ford plow today, it is a 3 x 16 plow, 3 point of course. The tag reads "Ford" on it, and it was like a 10-31 plow or something like that? I forgot between the trailer and the house......... :/ I will look again tomorrow and get some more pictures! The reason I bought it, is because it has what appears to be a FACTORY LandWheel/DepthWheel on it! Very nice 3 rib tire (near new actually). It is also a Cat.2, as the pegs and top link pin holes are larger.

I am planning on pulling it with my Farmall M, and I think it will be a perfect match!

The only thing missing on it besides the coulters, is a tail wheel / furrow wheel? It looks like the same little one that the Fergusons used, nothing special, but it is broke off and gone.... Does anyone have one? And possibly the bracket it is supposed to be running on? I think that my bracket is OK, but I suspect that if the wheel was broken off, possibly the bracket is tweaked, bent, or broken as well, and I don't know it by just looking at it.

Anyways, if anyone has one, or any pictures / info on the plow, I would love to see it! I will report back with a model, and some pictures tomorrow. Bryce

wood be nice to have a furrow wheel, but if the cost is exorbitant you might give the plow a try without the furrow wheel,
I borrowed my neighbors Ford 101 plow 3x14 with the back plow just torched off, therefore no furrow wheel,

Now it's a 2x14, it plowed great, Ford plows are good plows, plenty of throat depth to allow heavy weeds, corn stalks, etc, to just flow right on through,

FORD absorbed DEARBORN starting in 1955 with virtually the same implements, made by the same suppliers, so parts are the same. What is the Model Number on the tag? 10-31 is a Transport Lockout device only used on the Dearborn 10-14 2-Way Plows. Your FMD Plow probably has a model number in the 200 range, like 10-231, 10-232, et al. By the way, you need a Hundred Series tractor to pull 3 bottoms, an N-Series won't unless it is fine grain sand...; > ). I have a Dearborn 10-156 fitted with the 3rd Beam Extension and my 8N can barely lift it off the ground. I think I have an extra rolling landside (tail wheel) so let me check my stock over at the farm and get back with you... my email is open...


Is this what you have???

FORD FMD Plow:


Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)

Somebody would have to be pretty dumb to just torch off the bottom. My 101 was a 3-16 when I bought it which was too much for my tractor to pull. It took me a couple/three hours to take the frame apart, drop the center bottom then bolt it back together. The tail wheel stayed in place when I bolted it back together. EZ.

Kind of rough calling my good friend DUMB, since he owns his own business, has a big farm, this
Iittle plow was bought to break up his wife's garden 20+ years ago

Like calling me dumb for borrowing a Ford plow,

All I can tell anyone looking for a plow, my MF plow stays out Of the furrow about as much as in the plow furrow with me trying to un clog it, apparently the MF engineers never took the plow out for a field tryout before they placed them on the sales lot,

The old Ford plow was in good shape, he got it at a sale for almost nothing,
It works great,
Again my advice, if you are looking for a plow, give a Ford 101, 2 or 3 plow set a good review before you buy something else,

I do agree if you get a 3 plow set and only want 2, then the proper way to make it a 2 plow is to take the center plow off

YES! That is it exactly! 3 piece bottoms, same land wheel set up with the turn buckle, and then another turn buckle for the rotation of the lift arm pegs. That is the exact plow! I just don't have culters, but really don't need them either, I will be plowing grain stubble with it. Have a few coulters I could throw on there if I ever needed to as well. Have a look for a tail wheel, and give me a shout either way. Thanks so much! Bryce

Oh, and as far as power, (not to offend anyone) I will be using a pretty healthy Farmall M.

I didn't say anything about you Max.
As for him, would short sighted, disrespectful of old machinery or maybe blithe suit you better?
It is sometimes painful to see the "shortcuts" people take with these old machines. And the guy who gets it next has to spend months or years trying to find the right parts if he wants to make it right.
Here's another example.
The LEFT side hood on a 2000/3000 came in several variations. Old style with louvers vs new style without louvers.
Gassers have a large hole in the side for the air filter. Diesels did not have that hole.
And those with factory vertical exhaust had a hole in the top of the hood for the muffler that factory horizontal exhaust did not.
When I switched my 3000 from gas to diesel I looked for most of 3 years to find a left, old style, diesel, horizontal exh hood for it.
In that time I did find two of them that someone had taken a chisel or hole saw and hacked a hole in the top of the hood for the muffler.
I was more than disgusted with whoever did that and I called them far worse than dumb for wrecking a hard to find hood.
I am certain others here could tell of equally disgusting examples of shortcuts or "fixes" that POs have done.
I try to be respectful of this heritage equipment and leave stuff in good shape when I'm done with it. People who do things like torch off bottoms or hack holes in the tin or put crappy welds on stuff because they're too big of a hurry to do it right are dumb in my book. And I don't care how successful they are otherwise.

Correct, that is why I bought this one, as it is the first one with a FACTORY land wheel that I have come across! Most around here (if I can find one) are home made pos.... :/ This one is NICE!

Ultra,
does not always work that way,
I got this excellent AC field cultivator from my good friend who runs the local scrap yard.
it came from the factory with an AC snap couple hitch, but someone cut the hitch off and added a 3 pt hitch.

my friend gave it to me and I use it every year to work up my gardens, excellent tool, but I could not use it, if it still had the snap couple hitch.

sometimes, even a blind hog finds a properly modified acorn.

I also may have some Ford/Dearborn coulters, the correct later ones for this plow. I have not got a chance to get over to the farm yet, possibly this week, so will let you know when I do. By the way, Without the rolling landside, the plow will tend to ride all over and up out of the furrow.


Tim

That's what I thought. If it came from factory with one, then there is probably a reason for it. Have a look and let me know when you can, I'm in no rush. Not too worried about the coulters, would probably kill me on freight.... :/