Cockshutt or Oliver wheel controlled discs

I later traded that disc for a White 252, 40 blade 18" blades. They were both good discs. In my opinion Cockshutt, Oliver, White dealers were just doing a far better job of specing out and ordering discs than IH and JD were im my area anyway. Heavier gang bolts, bearings, and disc blades were the order of the day at Cockshutt, Oliver and White. You didn't have to pile rocks, concrete and wheel weights on a 252 to make it cut. Many times I have seen Farmall 560D and 656D putting out black smoke on that 252.

The odd part in all of this is and I am assuming you are from US. Here in Canada, Ford must have been using a different supplier or may be they had an economy disc. The Ford discs I've seen on the east coast were junk along side a 252. My next door neighbor bought one, said price was good, but it made an expensive land roller.

I have a 10'4" 251, and it can make the 1550 pour smoke, or make a White 2-60 in FWA spin out. My next door neighbour wanted me to buy his MF disc, but I paid three times as much and bought this one. He thought I was nuts... until he saw it in my yard one evening, then he said, "Now I see why you bought this one--it's twice the disc mine is!" Well, no: three times... A neighbour up the road also has an MF disc, and he couldn't get over 'how heavy built it is'. And it's the lightest of the 200 Series.

It was on a new set of 20" blades(optional) when I bought it and adding weight is just completely unnecessary. To watch that thing reduce rough plowing to smooth, level discing, or heavy spring weed cover to uniform tilth in one pass is something that absolutely never fails to fascinate and rivet me.