[AT] Allis Chalmers wheel disk

[charlie hill]

Hi Len,  We do have light soils here but the information about the wheel
disk comes straight from Norm Swinfords book.  The disk harrow was a # 213.
Like I said, it was a fairly light, small disk design.  AC made some heavier
disks in that size range that probably need close to 100 hp.  It just
depends on which one we are talking about.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Rugen" <lrugen at c-magic.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 4:03 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Allis Chalmers wheel disk


> Your WD-45 must have had a lot more guts than ours, or the soil is a lot
> different.  We had various 7-8' wheel disks, but at 8' the WD was loosing
> traction even if it had enough HP.  I have a 8' IH 37, pull a harrow
behind
> and my 52 HP MF will sometimes spin down in plowed ground.
>
> The probelem around here is that the disks for the real small tractors
were
> "drag" disks, they didn't have wheels.  When farms got bigger and
equipment
> needed to be "roaded", these got scrapped.
>
> >
> > The 12 foot one in the picture was built for a WD-45 to pull.
> >
>
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