Early B Plow Pictures

I have a 38 B that came with the original plow and all the attachments and it looks just like that. Has its own forward facing drawbar. Same hand lift as well

That is the first mounted B plow. I have one, along with the manual, etc.

I have this same plow as well except the rear brackets and how it attaches to the front drawbar are slightly different.

Edited by OzarkAC - 26 Apr 2012 at 1:23pm

There were 3 versions of the B plow. I am fortunate to have saved one of each, as well as obtain original manuals for each version. I also have the Dealer Parts Manuals that deatail out each model and what makes them different from one another.

that plow was listed as being from September of 38 until March of 39, they made a change to it in March of 39 and used that one until Janurary of 40. Then they made another change and used it until April of 40, after which another change was made and in use until Sept of 40. still another change was made and that one was used until August of 42. These are all changes in the lift and leveling arrangement. the last of these was made in December of 40. There were also several different depth adjusting arrangements used between 38 and 41. also 3 different lift assemblies were used 38-39, 39- 41 and after 41.  As well as beam changes, drawbar changes etc. Constantly improving the product and performance. Bob

There was a plow like that on Harvey Zabel's sale.  I did not see how much it went for or who bought it.  I had never seen one like it before so didn't pay much attention to it.  To bad this post wasn't before the sale, then I would have paid more attention to it.

That is a fairly early plow, but I think it has the hydraulically lifted rockshaft? I'm pretty sure that's the first version of the hydraulically lifted plow.

That plow/rockshaft is definately a hand lift. I have the same setup on one of my 1938 B's.

My bad, I do have a photo online. This is from someone's B at OPOP:

That's pretty nifty. Wouldn't take much effort to put it on a B with hydraulics.

I keep trying to talk Glenn into posting pictures of his, but so far he's been holding out! Hehe. It would be really neat to have a picture of each version in this thread.

the early rock shaft C shaped lift did not line up with the placement of the hydraulic cylinder. The one picture looks like the cylinder is mounted under the seat support. I had an early hand lift plow when I was 13. It's quite a job to lift. My tractor had hydraulics, but the cylinder was too far under the tractor to line up with the lift attachment (C), so I ran a bolt through the seat bracket and mounted the ram on the outside of the fender to get the alignment. The early B didn't have a pin mount for the ram, but you could buy a bolt on pin. I know it is shown in the cultivator book. Also the rock shaft diameter was smaller on the early B plow and the lift arms didn't unbolt. The mounting  brackets looked like homemade angle iron as shown in one of the plow pictures. Bob