Taylor way harrow manual

[1dawg]

I got my dad’s old plows and I was hoping to find a manual for his bog harrow. I have included pictures of it and the other plow that I am not sure what make it is, we called it a spring tooth harrow, but I am not sure of the official name for it.
Bog Harrow: Taylor Way model 200016, not sure of the age.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[1dawg]

I also got his rotary cutter, not sure of the make and model on it either.
The gear box would not hold gear oil, so I am trying John Deere corn head grease instead since I did not know what parts to order for a gasket.

 

[keljan11]

I've got a Woods M5 mower deck the gasket ripped when I took it apart to change the gear oil. Luckily, I had some gasket material around so I just made my own gasket. All good now.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I also got his rotary cutter, not sure of the make and model on it either.
The gear box would not hold gear oil, so I am trying John Deere corn head grease instead since I did not know what parts to order for a gasket.

Gasket or seal? Gaskets you can make. Got a box of cereal in the kitchen, and a grease gun with half a squirt of grease gobbing out of the end? You've got gasket material and sealant.

Seal you can get. All you need to know are dimensions, but you can probably find a number on the seal to use to cross-reference it at NAPA or any "bearing house" a supply store that sells only bearings and seals, quite common in any area with any sort of population center.

Make and model may not do you much good because the company that made it is likely long gone, and even if they are in business that model and all the parts in it were obsolete decades ago.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I got my dad’s old plows and I was hoping to find a manual for his bog harrow. I have included pictures of it and the other plow that I am not sure what make it is, we called it a spring tooth harrow, but I am not sure of the official name for it.
Bog Harrow: Taylor Way model 200016, not sure of the age.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Let's approach this from a different angle. What do you need to know? There isn't a whole lot to operating either of those implements. You've got a "bog harrow" which I assume is the disc harrow, and the other thing which is commonly called a "chisel plow" due to the heavier construction of the shanks. If they were just flat spring steel it would be a "cultivator."

 

[1dawg]

Thanks for the information, to answer your questions:
I was afraid to try and pull the front cover off of the cutter because if it was some type of proprietary seal or if it fell aprt(more likely) during removal I was not sure what the next step would be. It has sat for about 10 years without moisture so the bolts are pretty rusted. My solution that seems to be working was to use John Deere corn head grease in it. I also used a abundant amount of RTV around the edge of the front cover.
I never really did much with tractors or implements so I was trying to under the correct terminology for these so I could learn when to use them. I am putting in a green field(less than a half acre) on a small piece of land and I was not sure how to proceed.
After some research I cut the area down as low as I could and used the disc harrow to cut it up. After several passes it seems to be working. I think I should have used the chisel plow first to clear the vegetation. It was soft stuff mostly weeds up to about 12 feet high in places and those areas the discs did not cut and turn the soil as well.
My question is can I go back with the chisel plow now to remove the vegetation?
I have clay soils, but that area of the field has a lot of sand on it due to being near a large creek I guess.

 

[m16ty]

A manual won't help you much, even if you could find one. Lots of old equipment like that never did even have a manual when new.

The disc is what we call a bog disc around here. It's a more aggressive cut than a finishing disc. Basically you just hook it up and set the angle of the gangs how you want it (the more angle the more aggressive the cut will be). To use that disc, you need to only take 1/2 the width cut with it. After you make your first pass, when you make your second pass only use half of the width (one gang) in the new ground and let the other gang run over half of your first pass. Otherwise you'll have a unlevel field when you are done. Reason being is those single line disc will push all the dirt to the outside of the cut on each pass, by only taking half a cut after the first pass, it pushes to dirt back into the middle of the first pass to level everything out. Also, for getting a good seedbed, you'll likely need a finishing disc to go over it after you are done with the bog to make the ground smooth enough.

As for the cultivator, I think that is what we called a field cultivator. I don't think it is a chisel plow, chisel plows have a twisted point that will turn the ground over similar to a turning plow, all the ones I've seen like that one have straight points. They are made to go over plowed ground to help level and break everything up, I've never really had much use for one in the ground we have. I think you'll wind up with a mess trying in the ground you are attempting to work up, sounds like you have a lot of trash and turf that will just clog that thing up.

For the rotary cutter, first thing is make sure a bearing isn't down causing the oil leak. If all shafts are tight and rotate freely, I have had luck running corn head grease in leaky gearboxes. You should able to replace the input seal without major issues, I've never seen one with anything other than a standard seal you can pick up at the parts house, but usually the leaky seal is the output seal on the bottom. The bottom seal can be a real pain to replace. First off you have to get underneath or flip the cutter to get to it, and it can be a monumental task to get the stump jumper or blade carrier off to be able to get to the seal.

 

[1dawg]

Thank you for the information.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Yes you could go through it with your chisel plow there, and it is a chisel plow not a field cultivator . If you look at the first shank you can see the beginning of a twisted shovel on it by the looks of it. If you run to deep it could give plugging problems if you have a lot of tall trash on the surface. If you didn't plant till next spring and could let the trash rot down for this fall it would work a lot better for you. If you chopped it up with the mower then disked it you can probably get your chisel plow through it pretty well. While a Chisel plow will go through a lot of trash they do have their limits also. A spring planting would work a lot better for the trash and you could use a burn down for the weeds bvefore you planted to help with the weed control. Using s burn down with a residual would be the best weed control for you . You will need to talk to your local coop for information on what you can use and best way to proceed on it. Some sprays that could be listed for my area might not be able to be used in yours.