Ford 101 series plow

[tjandrews]

Meet Henry, a Ford 101 series plow that's been resting in some weeds for the last 15 years or more, until my brother and I rescued him. The shares are shot and the shins need to be replaced, but under the rust the moldboards all showed minimal wear. Somebody, sometime, cut off the part of the beam that holds the front coulter, presumably because it interfered with the tractor they were using. It's a 14-inch, trip-beam model. We paid $200 for it. The plan was to put it behind Gertie, our recently-acquired John Deere 4600 4WD diesel with the PowerReverser transmission.

The trips are all frozen, and we should have taken it apart and got them functioning, but we were too eager to see if it would work at all to do that, so we shined the moldboards up with an angle grinder and tried him out anyway. As you can see(if the photos upload), Gertie and Henry do a fine job together. This was on some oat stubble. We also tried them on some sod and they did a great job there, too, considering that it's on the dry side and the shares are worn out. The missing coulter didn't seem to be a problem.

I've ordered new shares and shins from Shoup. Competitive pricing, reasonable flat-rate shipping, and mounting hardware is included. A little over another $100 all together. I think it's a good deal, or will be when we get the trips working. How about you guys?

 

[Billy NY]

Kirk NJ, who posts in the ford forums often knows how to adjust the trip mechanism, book should explain it too.

Thats not bad for all the shins and shares, check the frog for wear. My 2 bottom 101 was run with worn shares a bit too long and the frog has some wear, the leading hole is close to needing to be built up, something I can do and you'd never know it was done.

I think they are a fine plow for what most use them for today, many get cut down to 2 bottoms, I'd like a 101 3 bottom for my 4630 new holland tractor.

It was just under $200 for new shares, shins, landsides and hardware for my 101, well worth it, it does a nice job.

 

[maxwell99]

Good deal,
I have used my neighbors 3x14" 101 plow, it has the rear plow torched off so it's now a 2x14" plow with no coulters,

Does a great job with little to no clogging up, just flips the dirt and debris and keeps on going,

My old Ferguson plows stayed clogged up all the time,

What a pleasure to use this well made plow,

Good find, wish I could find one.

 

[tjandrews]

I did download a pdf of the manual from http://www.link_disallowed/forums/manuals/manuals.htm. It's been helpful.

 

[Kirk-NJ]

Great price for a three bottom 101 spring trip plow. The first thing I did with my 101 spring trip was to get them back to tripping for use in my rocky soil. Once operational I set them light to get the feel. Must have tripped them a half dozen times. What's nice about it is you just back up and the spring puts the bottom back in place unlike my 101 manual trip plow with shear pins.
Good luck with your new plow.

Kirk

 

[Ultradog MN]

Good for you.
Those are good plows.
Built by Riton in ND. They build plows for many colors - JD, Allis, Ford, probably others.
I have a 2-16".
It was a 3-16 but I dropped one bottom.
It was easier to drop the center one rather than mess with moving the tail wheel.
Anyone who would put a torch to one of these plows would have to be goofy or just plain dumb as it took me all of a couple of hours to do and I could easily put the 3rd bottom back on if I wanted to.

 

[tracto-man]

One of these days I'll head over down the road to my recently purchased but not yet brought home ford 101 plot just like that one. It's needs a couple o new parts as well but I got it for cheap so I don't mind.

 

[tracto-man]

Here's what it looks like now.

 

[tjandrews]

After studying the tractor with the plow on it I can see where a similar tractor might have had a problem with the beam where the front coulter attaches. The angle of the lift links and the arms are such that the beam might have struck the arm on that side. The photo shows where it was cut near the upper right corner. Extend that beam just a little and you run right into the lift link.

This tractor was obviously not designed with this plow in mind.

 

[tjandrews]

Blast! Messed up the photo upload. Trying again...

 

[Ultradog MN]

I could see cutting off the front of the beam if it interfered with something on the tractor.
My comment was aimed at someone who would torch a bottom off - especially the rear one, and lose the tail wheel.
No offense.
You have a good plow there. Not a lot of dough in it either. Good job.

 

[Kirk-NJ]

In this photo of my spring trip plow you will notice the right hand beam where the lead coulter would have been attached bends to the left so as not to hit the 3pt arms But I have seen many like yours that have been cut off.

Kirk

 

[tjandrews]

Bending it is a better idea, as the coulter could probably still be used. Tougher to do, though.