Plow auger?

Never saw one of these before, raised a lot of eyebrows at little log cabin show.
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I think it was Nebraska Cowman who had one of those in a video he posted about a while back. As I understood it they were used to build terraces in fields and were sometimes called a whirlwind plow if I remember right from what I have heard and read about them. I never saw one around here in NY, I think they are a regional thing.
Zach
 
Zachary is exactly right. I have quite a few small terraces across my hilly farm that were here when I moved here. At some point in the past, someone used a terracing plow to make them.

Tom in TN
 
I've got a 3pt model, not sure it came that way or modified that way. Man I gotta dig that out and play with it. Dad bought it at a farm auction when I was little, think he got it for scrap price and had thoughs of making some water channels. It has never run on this farm. When I get time to think about it, every acre is planted, and when I'm done with harvest, things are froze up. I just need to see it run once.

Very unusual thing up here, only one I've ever seen in the flesh.

Farm Collector did an article on them a couple years ago, was a nice read.

Paul
 
Whirlwind terracer. Was used to build terraces around 50 to 60 years ago.

I own one, but I've never built terraces with it. I bought it on an auction for the express purpose of cleaning out and reforming waterways. The gearbox on the auger has three speeds, and in high speed it will throw dirt over 30 feet. It did a superb job of throwing dirt out of the waterways.

I recall when I was a teenager, our neighbor had quite a business built up doing custom terracing. He used a 44 Massey. My cousin did a demo with one at the local county fair a few years ago, and he also used a 44. I ran mine with a D19 Allis, and I got some diesel smoke on occasion, so they do take a few ponies.

Mine was built off of an IH plow frame. It had a mechanical lift when I bought it. I had an IH 3-16 plow that my father had abandoned when he was still living and farming, and I transferred the hydraulic lift brackets, etc. onto the terracer.

I think I'll try to use it to form the driveway to my new shop. It should work good to throw dirt together for a slightly raised driveway.
 
Seeing them in action I have wonder how they would ever move enough dirt to make a decent terrace.

Growing up I remember my dad laying out terraces and then using a 6 bottom plow dropped DEEP to loosen the dirt up where the terraces would be and then using a 560 and a Danhouser blade to push them into shape. After a couple years of careful tillage you would have some pretty nice terraces.


They were fairly small terraces compated to what is put in now but they would be huge compared to anything that little plow would make.
 
We used them in the ricefields to cut furrows so we could drain the water off the field. Had a levy push that would throw up BIG terraces, (we call them levies). Levies are used to get the water to all the different elevations in the fields.
 

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