IH 1 Bottom breaking plow

In addition, this Parts catalog has a pictures and parts for implements such as Walking Plows, Farmall Middle Busters, Ridge Busters, Furrowers, and Border Markers. Another section deals with Disk and Peg harrows.

The Catalog is very informative BUT it is not helping me find the parts I need.

The PO 85 book contains Little Wonder 3 and 4, tractor side hill hitches, No.14 Little Genius, No. 39 two way roll over plow and all the mounted plows for letter series tractors. It also has disk plows, harrow plows and middle busters.

If I'm looking for plow wear parts for plows back beyond 1962, I go right to TSC store. If I take the old part with me, they will have it in 5 days. Never failed yet, but bear in mind that is plow bottom wear parts only.

All references and photos of the Little Wonder # 1 and 2 Tractor plow shows them to be a two bottom plow.

As far as the hitch adjustment, trial and error is the best method to get the desired results. Good Luck.

Also, I'd like to see a copy of that page out of parts book PO 84. I've seen a lot of IH plow literature in my day. The early info I have describes 2 and 3 bottom No.8 Little Genius and how to convert it from 2 to 3 bottom and 3 to 2 bottom. Post 1940 No.8 Little genius literature describes 2, 3, 4 and 5 bottom models. I'm not saying a 1 bottom No.8 didn't happen. I don't have parts book for the No.8 but I do have manuals.

Here is my crazy plow. Its got a larger frame to me than my #8 LG 2 bottom plow, but I dont know much about models. The coulter is a vertical solid cuttintg peg of heavy steel, and it has much bigger wheels than my #8 LG 2 bottom plow. Still look like a little wonder #3?

Any manuals exist on that model?

It appears to be a #461 Brush Breaker. If you could post a side view, we could make a more positive identification.

The 461 has a 16" bottom and has a stamped-steel furrow wheel. The 459 Brush Breaker has a 20" bottom and has a cast furrow wheel. The coulter is a "duck bill" cutter anchored to the beam to prevent pulling the cutter away from the share when backing out of a stump.

I have a 461 and it is a very substantial plow. They were designed for heavy duty service. My uncle gave me this plow and he said it would worry the heck out of his F-20 in heavy going.

I have a sales brochure on this plow but no other info.. I would be glad to fax you a copy if you wish.

Regards,
Scott

Tonight I will post a bunch more side and detail photos of this unit. Sounds pretty interesting, I am intrigued.

I have pulled it with my 720D diesel and my 70Gas in cleay to test it a bit. It goes DEEP. I have a 3"x10" cylinder on it but I am going to use my 3x8 instead. I tried it with my MC in the wet meadeaw and it stopped it dead at 6-8 inches. Big shovel.

How do I measure what a bottom width is exactly?

You were asking how to check width of cut, roughly what width of furrow does it turn? I'm thinking somewhere between 15" and 24". I have seen them as large as 24", but yours doesn't look quite that large. That photo could be a bit deceiving.