What is it?

[soder33]

I went to a tractor show and saw this thing.
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Here's a closeup.
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So what is it used for??

 

[jiminct]

(quoted from post at 10:48:20 08/10/10) I went to a tractor show and saw this thing.
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Here's a closeup.
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So what is it used for??

looks like some type of post hole digger at 1st glance, til you look closer and see a coulter. not too sure what it is.

 

[ddl]

terracer

 

[jiminct]

now i understand it, after you mentioned terracer. it allows you to build a step in the earth between fields on a slope correct?

 

[Tom Railsback]

It's a Servis terracer, probably sold by International from the paint job. We called them whirlwind terracer in NW Kansas.

 

[glennster]

its a whirlwind terracing plow. here is a link to a video done by our very own young and handsome nebraska cowman having fun, throwing dirt everywhere.
poke here

 

[IOWA NORTHEAST]

You have already got the corect answer. I would like to coment on the ordeal, as I own one also.
I took it out in the field having no idea of what was to be expected. The little B farmal was wide open when I tripped the plow. My nose hit the sttering wheel it stopped so fast.

I took it to our local club / show. We put it behind a MH 333, and it was solid clay ground with out a hint of black soil. He had the front end off the ground, and was the laughing act of the show.

It has a IH F-20 transmision on the plow for gear selections. The advertisment says they can build a mile of terraces in a single day with a 40 HP tractor.

Extention offices used to rent them so the farmer could fill ditches and build teraces. Now in our parts of the country, you would be filling a ditch or building a terrace with dirt that is as fine as it comes from behind a garden tiller --- it is powderd---and it had washed out with the original hard packed soil in the first place.

 

[ChrisinMO]

Nice video, thanks for the link. Got the wheels turning in my head. I've got lots of sloping ground. Some of it was terraced about 30 years ago, the rest is just natural. Something to think about.

Christopher

 

[730 virgil]

the first time i saw one of these used some loud mouth know it all told everyone in hearing distance HE didn't like the job of plowing that guy is doing. he is throwing dirt everywhere.
then someone who what the plow was made for quietly told him that is the way it is meant to work. it was made to build terraces. to which he said i don't care i still don't like the way it works.

 

[rhouston]

What? you"ve never seen a seed drill for coconuts ?

 

[Allan in NE]

And in addition,

Anyone who has ever farmed terraces will tell you that it was one of the stupidest ideas the human species has ever came up with.

What a crock! :>)

Allan

 

[Goose]

It's a whirlwind terracer, used to build terraces. They were a hot item 40 to 50 years ago, maybe longer than that. I remember our neighbor doing custom work running one with a 44 Massey.

I have one, and it's also great for rebuilding waterways. I bought it on an auction, and after I got it home, I found it had a lot of parts in common with an IH 3 bottom plow sitting in the trees. I swapped a few parts between them. The terracer had a mechanical lift, and the plow was set up for a hydraulic cylinder, so you know what were the first parts I swapped.

I run mine with a D19 Allis. A cousin of mine has one and sometimes does a demo at the county fair. Last time he did it, he used a 44 Massey.

 

[soder33]

A seed drill for coconuts, now that's funny right there. Thanks all for the information. I learned something new today, which is always good.

 

[Goose]

Yeah, and where you live, you have to drive 50 miles to find a hill to hide behind to relieve yourself.

It isn't like that everywhere.

 

[Jim in Ma.]

I don't think that would work here in our rocky New England ground.

 

[Nancy Howell]

that's funny.

 

[Nancy Howell]

Our farm was terraced back in the 30's with teams of mules. Sure makes cutting hay interesting.

 

[Jon Hagen]

A local antique threshing / tractor show here in central ND has a 2-3 " bottom plow with that setup on it. Locals thought it was some sort of clod buster, LOL . Glad to read what it really is.
Thats to be expected I guess, I have never seen a terrace in our area of mostly flat land, so it was kind of a mistery machine.

 

[Goose]

This was directed at Allan, not Nancy.

 

[Allan in NE]

Yeah, that's true.

I live in farm country.

Allan

 

[greenmech]

If you want to see it in person,its at the Dakota County Fair in Farmington MN this week. Ron MN

 

[paul]

I got one it is or was converted to a 3pt model. I need to dig it out, dad bought it 25??? years ago, been sitting there. Just never get to try the thing, unusual. Be fun to try the thing.

--->Paul

 

[John Harmon]

A dirt throwing auger for building Terraces on side hill Farms. Repeated trips with the auger in gear throwing dirt up hill to form the Terrace . Worked in conjunction with a mold board plow which broke ground for the auger to function in.Local Soil Conservation Districts would buy one to allow Farmers to use it to construct soil saving terraces. A lot of terrace and water way construction went on during the mid and late '30's and after WW2 soil conservation got going in a big way and is still an issue on a lot of farms world wide right up till present day.We can't afford another series of "Dust Bowl" years.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Looks like I'm 3 weeks late & a dollar short. My brother and I own the plow in the pictures. It is an IH / Servis Whirlwind Terracing Plow. The plow is an IH one bottom Little Genius, and the Servis company (now Rhino) converted it with the rear auger, transmission and drive shafts. The other replies give you the details on how it worked. We purchased this one plus another from a gentleman in Nebraska who used to build terraces in his area in the 40's & 50's. I can imagine they were a hazard in rocky ground and a pulverized dirt terrace might take a while to set up and hold water.

Iowa Northeast, you referred to some advertisements. I would be interested in looking at some advertisements as it would be nice to have some something to display with the plow to explain what it does.