Posted by Dick L on October 23, 2011 at 06:01:15 from (50.51.7.238):
In Reply to: Disc posted by who knows on October 22, 2011 at 21:19:32:
Being 73 and raised on the farm when neighbors actually visited one another about when they would be doing which field they traded work to get things done timely. That meant in the spring some fields were ready to work before others. The farmer with the dry field would get one or more neighbors would pull into the field and of course expecting or knowing that when his field was ready the person he was helping would show up. At that time the Farmall M, Oliver 88 or Allis WD 45 would have been the big tractors with the Farmall H , Oliver 77 and Allis WC was the most common main large tractor size. I only seen the 7 and 8 foot disc behind any tractors of that size. No wheel disc's at time in our area. Most with the Farmall M's pulled the 8 foot disc and hooked a spring tooth in the spring and would put the cultipacker in between when the ground was dryer rather than go wider. Most likely because they had smaller tractors and didn't have the ground to afford two disc's Dad had two 8 foot Oliver disc's and it was pulled with the Allis C while he plowed with the Oliver 77.
This is the 8 foot disc that Dad bought in 1949. It was used behind the Oliver 77, Oliver 66 and the Allis C as well some with Grandpas Farmall H.
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