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John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo

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pj roper

07-10-2014 08:53:21




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I am having difficulty researching my latest "find" because I don't know what to call it. I have seen several over the years that I know were built as a complete unit and all were JD.
I have searched every name I can think of on the internet with no results. The JD dealer suggested "pasture drill" but he could find nothing in his system.

It is a "disk plow" with narrow blade spacing. Seed box is chain driven and drop tubes place the seed where the disk will cover it as it rolls the fresh cut dirt over. There are no "press wheels" or drag chains that follow.

Decals are gone but casting marks all indicate JD.

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Tom from Ontario

07-10-2014 19:38:31




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
You got it. One way disc or discer or disc tiller. On a lot of prairie farms it was the only tillage implement for a lot of years. The father of a friend of mine showed me fields in alberta that were cup shaped due to the use of these things over decades because they drove round and round. It was highly recommended that you never turn sharp right with one. This older gent said there were lots of tractors that were never unhooked from these things all their working life. 60 horse could pull 15 working width in most places. They weren"t worth a hoot in sod.

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LenND

07-10-2014 13:36:30




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
Massey Harris made a lot of them for this part of the country years ago. I think they were made in Canada/



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maxwell99

07-10-2014 11:50:59




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
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is this something like what you bought.
they called it a disker tiller with planter box on top.

it has a line of disk blades under it that lightly chop up the ground for the seed bed.

guess it got the job done in one pass.



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Mike Aylward

07-10-2014 11:05:55




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
PJ, remember that a disk plow has blades mounted individually and run deeper. A disk tiller (what you have) will have blades mounted on a common gang bolt and run shallower. While they were called many things in many places, in Deere terminology they were known as disk tillers. Mike



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Tim(nj)

07-10-2014 12:47:27




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to Mike Aylward, 07-10-2014 11:05:55  
Didn't Deere call the late models Sur-Flex tillers or something like that?



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Tx Jim

07-10-2014 13:34:00




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to Tim(nj), 07-10-2014 12:47:27  
Yes the later model JD disk tillers were called surflex



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Mike Aylward

07-10-2014 14:48:30




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to Tx Jim, 07-10-2014 13:34:00  
I believe some models were Surflex tillers but not all models. Some were rigid. Mike



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ryanwheelock

07-10-2014 10:33:14




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
Post a picture of it



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maxwell99

07-10-2014 10:25:51




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
I think the term they used back in the day for that machine was "disker"

It had a number of disc blades lined up on single axle, with a speeder box on top.

Used to plant the great northern plains in wheat.



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El Toro

07-10-2014 10:10:54




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
Here's a Dandy disk seeder. Hal
PS:JD probably made them too.



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Tx Jim

07-10-2014 10:28:08




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to El Toro, 07-10-2014 10:10:54  


disk tiller This is the standard model. Therwe was also a smaller version.PC# 230 - 100A-150A Series and 100B-H, 120B-H, 150B-H, 160B-H Series Small Disk Tillers

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Parts catalog 200

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This post was edited by Tx Jim at 10:28:58 07/10/14.

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Roger in Iowa

07-10-2014 09:20:29




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
Link

Picture of a brochure on ebay of a Case disk seeder.



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Roger in Iowa

07-10-2014 09:03:14




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 Re: John Deere disk plow/seed drill combo in reply to pj roper, 07-10-2014 08:53:21  
Try oneway disk seeder or oneway seeder.



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