Another plow picture

Biffer5 · Feb 6, 2020

I don't know what I would do without Rosie and her plow. Especially when the snow is wet and deep as the snow thrower just bogs down in that stuff. I found the plow at a junk sale years ago and have never seen anything else quite like it. It works off the 3pt hitch and I just leave it on all year.

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Colin King · Feb 6, 2020

Nice!

Tom Massachusetts · Feb 6, 2020

How does the 3pt lift the plow, with a cable?

Biffer5 · Feb 6, 2020

(quoted from post at 15:09:06 02/06/20) How does the 3pt lift the plow, with a cable?

Yes, a cable on each side. Through pulleys and back to a bar. It's quite the rig.

Biffer5 · Feb 6, 2020

The plow and the dump box both go up with the 3pt hitch. I leave the box on for weight.

GB in MT. · Feb 6, 2020

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Biffer5;
Looks like a Dearborne 19-3 plow set-up.
That is said to be one of the best, to use with an 8N tractor. There are good others, but that is one that is easy to install, and should last a LONG time, if kept up, and usable!!!

Nice plow.....( I have the complete instructions for that one.....If you need it).....FREE COPY, if you want!!!! VIA, email???

Gary

Biffer5 · Feb 6, 2020

(quoted from post at 17:02:46 02/06/20) [size=18:8baba76761][/size:8baba76761]
Biffer5;
Looks like a Dearborne 19-3 plow set-up.
That is said to be one of the best, to use with an 8N tractor. There are good others, but that is one that is easy to install, and should last a LONG time, if kept up, and usable!!!

Nice plow.....( I have the complete instructions for that one.....If you need it).....FREE COPY, if you want!!!! VIA, email???

Gary

That would be great. Thanks! [email protected]

GB in MT. · Feb 6, 2020

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(quoted from post at 17:02:46 02/06/20) [size=18:abb9b90744][/size:abb9b90744]
Biffer5;
Looks like a Dearborne 19-3 plow set-up.
That is said to be one of the best, to use with an 8N tractor. There are good others, but that is one that is easy to install, and should last a LONG time, if kept up, and usable!!!

Nice plow.....( I have the complete instructions for that one.....If you need it).....FREE COPY, if you want!!!! VIA, email???

Gary

Click to expand...

That would be great. Thanks! [email protected]

Glad that you can use it.
I keep things like that in my Tractor Info. files.......Comes in handy sometimes!!

GB :wink:

Leroy · Feb 6, 2020

Had one for probably 70 years. Dad bought it when it was one season old and had been used to plow sidewalks in town.

Ultradog MN · Feb 7, 2020

It looks like you are having entirely too
much fun.
Those are great snow plows. Properly
equipped with a front plow, tire chains
and rear ballast an N makes an awesome
little snow mover.
You are lucky to have the snow plow. They
also made a dozer blade to fit that frame
which didn't have the trip springs. The
lower dozer blade works ok for snow but
the taller blade plus trip springs makes
the snow blade more effective.

Kirk-NJ · Feb 7, 2020

Hit the link
Dearborn snowplow

ASEguy · Feb 7, 2020

Good explanation. Thanks Kirk.

steve19438 · Feb 7, 2020

I bought and sold three of those outfits over the years. they worked great as long as the area you were using them on was nice and flat.

have fun !!!

Biffer5 · Feb 7, 2020

I'm lucky I have the snow plow blade rather than the dozer blade. Those trip springs have saved the frame a number of times when I hit some stones froze into the ground. I've still had to have some welding done on the front a few times but it's holding together well. Now that I have all this new information I think this Spring I'll take it off and do some serious maintenance. (Of course I also say that about the tractor and rarely get to all the stuff I want to do). I don't think I've taken the blade or chains off in ten years.

steve19438 · Feb 7, 2020

wanna try that again.

steve19438 · Feb 7, 2020

the upload enlarged the pic and made it blurry. ?????

Tomatoboy · Feb 7, 2020

I?ve got a similar plow for my 8N. Mine is not actually a snow plow, it lacks the springs to be
a real snow plow. We haven?t had any significant snow this year so I haven?t tested it on
snow, but it worked poorly on soil as it tended to lift up. I leave it off my tractor unless I need
it since it operates off the 3-point and I can?t use other implements with it. Mine is also very
heavy and takes about 30-90 minutes to install/remove.

Leroy · Feb 7, 2020

All I ever saw was the dozer blade that I and 2 neighbors had. Also never saw a v blade that was avaible.

Leroy · Feb 7, 2020

The springs would be tripping all the time her so the dozer blade is better for snow. We mounted a 10" plank on top of blade so snow would not be rolling over the top. Also covered lots of tile drains with it and no riding over the top.

HFJ · Feb 7, 2020

[i:320af21b41]"the upload enlarged the pic and made it blurry. ?????"[/i:320af21b41]

not sure what to think, steve - it looks fine here. the overall size of the white rectangle for me is 375 x 516, and the pics are not blurry.

what are u viewing the forum with?

Leroy · Feb 7, 2020

For most 3 point needed did not have to take frame off. We plowed ground with moldboard plow with it on. Just pull 2 pins to take blade off, raise frain and hook up 2 chains and take the rod that lifted off the 3 point arms by pulling 2 cotter pins and ready for other work.

steve19438 · Feb 7, 2020

I use classic view. the pics from my folder are a bit small but not blurred. far as I know this is the first time this site enlarged any of my photo's and caused them to blur.

Ultradog MN · Feb 7, 2020

Leroy,
I'll grant that the dozer blade does better at covering drain tile, etc than the snowplow would. And it does OK at snowplowing too.
But the snowplow with the trip springs is superior for moving snow.
I don't have a need for a dozer blade. I do need to move snow. For that reason I would much rather have the snow plow.
By the way, as Ford tractors changed, the push frames changed to fit the later models.
But the blades - both dozer and snow, remained the same from about 1950 through 1975.

Tomatoboy · Feb 7, 2020

Mine is some sort of weird hybrid of parts with a heavy fixed, unsprung Massey Ferguson plow and what looks like a decade or two older frame of unknown make.

Mine *can* theoretically be disconnected and have the cables rigged to remain in the up position so you can use the 3-point, but I found this had a few issues. First, my frame tends to ?wiggle? in the up position with the blade on, and while plowing my garden it was flopping around. Removing the heavy blade is enough of a chore that just removing the whole frame was easier. Second, the blade is heavy (conversely, the frame is very light) and makes the tractor harder to steer, plus it makes it harder to maneuver around growing crops by adding a few feet to the front end. Third, I cannot get my frame up high enough that the plow/frame doesn?t drag on my potato hills occasionally towards the front.

Of course, it only snows a few times a year in my part of MD, my driveway is short, and so is my patience for obstructions during maintenance, so the plow and frame just come off unless a doozy of a snowstorm is predicted.

PatrickB · Feb 7, 2020

This is a homemade frame and blade I've been plowing with since '99. There have been a few times when I wished it had springs ( like yours)on it for unexpected encounters.

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