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Topic: disc options pre D series

Posted By: truckerfarmer
Subject: disc options pre D series
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2025 at 10:16pm

Started this instead of hijacking another thread.

It seems like whenever someone posts about a snap coupler disc to knock down plowed ground, people immediately say you need a heavier disc. Well then, what were the options? What discs were available when the B, C and W series were new? I'll admit I don't know a lot about the B or C series, but, weren't they meant to be the do everything tractor for the small farmer that could probably only afford one tractor? What was available from Allis Chalmers as a "heavy disc" for them?

Weren't they marketed as a set? You bought a tractor, a plow, a disc and either a drill or planter? Most of what I've seen, it was a mounted disc.

If the snap coupler mounted disc wasn't meant to knock down plowed ground, what was it meant for?

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Looking at the past to see the future.
'53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer

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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2025 at 10:50pm

We always dragged plowed ground with a 3 section harrow,broadcast fertilizer and disc it in then one more pass with the harrow,then plant. Spring plowing and the disc wasn't buried. This was with a WD. Old days weren't for sissys.

These days I sit in a climate controlled 8070 and rip it up in the fall with a 9 shank disc chisel. Usually 2 passes in the spring with a field cultivator and plant. I'm 30 yrs behind the times but it works for me.

Dad started out with an Oliver 8ft drag disc....the kind that you set straight to travel.