[AJD] JD Disc Plow

Mon May 3 15:50:54 PDT 2010

Hi Reverend Gerber,

I spent a lot of time during my teenage years, helping my uncle farm wheat 
in the Texas Panhandle.  I spent many hours on a McCormack Deering W-9 
tractor, pulling either one or sometimes two 16' one-way plows.  I loved 
doing it and have many fond memories of those times.  Sorry it was not a JD 
doing the pulling, but one has to make allowances!  It was not uncommon for 
me to plow 100 acres in a day, but my all time record was plowing 160 acres 
in one day, pulling two of those one-ways and using a fairly shallow cut. 
We also used a Farmall M for plowing, but that one would only pull one of 
those 16' plows at one time.  The M was a sweet tractor and easier to drive 
than the W-9.  I, however, loved that W-9 as it was a real pulling hog.  At 
first it was fueled with gasoline, but later we converted it to Butane.  We 
called it Butane, but it was probably Propane.  Another fellow who did 
farming on that same ranch property had a WD-9 and I always admired that 
diesel model.  I got to drive it once.

I cannot tell you how many discs there were on each of those plows, but it 
seems to me that they were probably spaced 10-12" apart.  The finish that 
they produced was very pleasing to the eye.  One of the plows had bronze 
bushings with seals that were not very good.  That plow had to be greased 
about every 2 hours, as I recall.  The other plow had either Timken rollers 
or other non-friction type of bearing with good seals and that one was 
greased only once per day and then only one shot per fitting.

Don't know if any of this information is of any use to you, but I had to put 
it out to you, just in case.

Bill Salisbury
Now a JD 420S owner
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rev. Gerber" <drgerber at fuse.net>
To: "'Antique John Deere mailing list'" 
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Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] JD Disc Plow

I have little knowledge of disk plows, but do have a disk tiller, where the
disks are closer together than the disk plow, otherwise the implements look
the same.  I thought the disk plows were still called plows, and the disk
tillers were what were called a one-way.  They, the disk tillers, are scarce
here in the Ohio/Indiana area, and I have never seen them on the East Coast
when I lived there.  I have been told, as was stated here regarding the disk
plows, that the disk tillers were used in dry and rocky soils further west.

I may try my disk tiller out and see just how hard it is to pull.  After I
try it out, it will get a paint job and go to a show now and then, once I
figure out what it would be matched with.  Look to me like it has never been
used, or very little.  I believe it has seven rather large disks.  Heavy
duty thing, that's certain.  I have not done the research on the model
number as I don't know where to start looking for numbers, what to look for,
or what they would mean, nor have I met anyone who seems to know much about
them.  For all I know, it might be a great implement that I use a lot in my
large garden.

Rev. Dr. David R. Gerber
Mt. Airy United Methodist Church
2645 North Bend Rd.
Cincinnati, OH  45239
Phone: 513-541-0307
FAX: 513-541-2575

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bill gray
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 11:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [AJD] JD Disc Plow

Looks like a model 403, I have one and they do plow great in rocky or
stumpy soil because of the rolling disks. I pull it behind a 52 G John
Deere. Look for the 400 series plow service and operators manuals from John
Deere publications. They made the 400 drawn disk plow in a 2, 3 and 4
disk both in a manual trip and a hydraulic version.

Bill Gray
Huntsville, Alabama
Operational Tractors JD 4000, JD 430W, JD Late Styled G, Gibson D

Rework in Progress JD 430T, 2 JD Late Styled B's, JD 1010.

--- On Sat, 5/1/10, Chris C <jdnutinwa at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Chris C <jdnutinwa at yahoo.com>
Subject: [AJD] JD Disc Plow
To: "ATIS LIST" <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 1:15 AM

I saw this on Craigslist so I made the trip to go and get it. It is sort
of a goofy looking thing but it struck a chord with me. Any ideas what
model it is? On JD part numbers that I can find are on the wheels...

Chris

http://public.fotki.com/jdnut/john-deere-equipment/plows/

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