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Farm Jeep Disc plow ?

Discussion in 'Early Jeep Restoration and Research' started by Rusty1cox, Oct 10, 2009.

  1. Rusty1cox

    Rusty1cox New Member

    Found one ! still in good shape, was under a old hog pen, Not a barn find but next best thing still protected from weather, To the question, What was the factory colors for this equipment?
     
  2. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    So is it a disc or a plow? :?

    Pics!
     
  3. mdbeck1

    mdbeck1 55 Willys CJ5

    I'll say it..

    :uwop:
     
  4. Rusty1cox

    Rusty1cox New Member

    There are two types of plows
    1. a bottom / mold board type and
    2nd. is a disc type that has a 20" to 26" disc
    ( not to be confused with a multi disc about 6" to 10" disc's used after the plowing is done or to just break the ground surface) they came with a 1 or 2 disc versions they really shine when breaking new ground 6" to 12" deep , the disc will cut roots, and not hang up like a bottom plow will, mine is a 2 disc plow pics will be along soon
    So any idea as to factory colors, I intend to restore and use during our antique plow days behind my willys jeep.
     
  5. Rusty1cox

    Rusty1cox New Member

    I'll get you a picture not sure how it will help with what color it was from factory. :?
     
  6. Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

    Rotary plow.
    I wouldn't have thought that Jeep used a rotary plow over a standard wing plow because of cost.
    Not sure of color, without an old brochureI doubt to many people have ever seen one to even take a guess. Someone on the cj2 forum may have an old scan of a brochure though.
     
  7. aallison

    aallison 74 cj6, 76 cj5. Has anyone seen my screwdriver?

    We want picts because it's cool. I've never seen a jeep plow.
     
  8. Monkey Wrench

    Monkey Wrench Most junior member

    Well, Love, Newgren, and Monroe all made plows and discs for Willys, and even maybe some others. Does this "disc plow" have any I.D. plates on it? I've yet to see a Willys made implement, not saying it didn't happen though. J.B. Love/Newgren Co. appear to be right there at the beginning of the agrijeep development and Love had discs/plows already. Newgren/Monroe's I've seen in literature appear to be red, Love I think (not sure) may have used different colors. And farm tractor builders of the the 40's and 50's weren't always consistent with color anyway. Of course any company could have received a Jeep approved sticker from the factory because if one company supplier didn't fill an order, the Willys dealer had to get it from somewhere, and jeeps were commonly sold by tractor dealers as a side item.
     
  9. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Guess you taught this farm boy something. To me growing up and in all my classes a disc and a plow were two different implements.

    Still want to see pictures of it. :)
     
  10. Howard Eisenhauer

    Howard Eisenhauer Administrator Staff Member

  11. Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

    Here are a couple of pics.
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    Ferguson rotary plow.
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    John Deere
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  12. Patrick

    Patrick Super Moderator Staff Member

    Nice pics, but I thought we were talking about Jeep equipment.
     
  13. Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

    Sparky said he wanted to see a disk plow. He didn't say it had to be for a jeep.
     
  14. Patrick

    Patrick Super Moderator Staff Member

    I figured he'd seen one before.;)
    Thought he wanted to see the one in question here.

     
  15. Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

    Sparky said:
    I just showed him what one looked like, 40-50 years ago they were common place.
     
  16. WYOMIKE

    WYOMIKE Oct 1971 pic

    Sparky I think the reason that you did not see them back in your country is because they work better in dry, rocky clay soil, not like you had back there, although I am sure some people used them in other soil. Here in Wy, Mt, Daks, they are pretty common. 40 years ago when I worked on the ranch, I pulled a 21 ft. one with a D-7 Cat. If the soil got wet, they were a bugger to pull. We called them "One Ways" because you can only turn one way with them, especialy the bigger ones. If my memory is correct, I was thinking that they took more HP/sq. ft. of land plowed. I wonder if pulling one with a jeep might have been too much for the jeep vs a mold board? As far as color goes, all my pictures of them on jeeps are black and white pictures:(
     
  17. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Yup, I was referring to this one in particular. I can use google images, and did already. R)
     
  18. uncamonkey

    uncamonkey Member

    I found these this morning.
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    Thanks to Cj3b site and Willys Reunion sites.
     
  19. sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

    Those look like moaldboard plows to me? I've seen at least one of those at the Reunion. Those aren't the same style as the disk plows pictured before.
     
  20. uncamonkey

    uncamonkey Member

    Looks like we will have to wait to see Rusty1cox's pictures.