What is this?

[Lyle Knight]

This was given to me and not sure if it is a disc plow or one way disc! What brand and model number? Thanks

 

[RogerinIowa]

Just called them a one-way. Yours looks to be a Minneapolis Moline.

Dad had a 10' one, but on rubber.

 

[Brendon-KS]

That would go by a variety of names depending on where you are at. Here in Kansas it would be referred to as a "one way" but "disc tiller" might be a more generic name. They were really popular years ago for preparing ground for winter wheat. A "disc plow" would be a different machine with larger blades supported by individual bearings, not a common axle like this has.

 

[casecollectorsc]

Got a couple of them. Always called it a disc plow but most call them a one way disc. Back in 76 had a lot of Kochia weeds in the grain stubble after combining. I hooked the two one ways together and it was the only thing to plow them down without plugging. Each plow covers 8' so I could cover 16' with two hooked together. Minneapolis Moline is the mfg. but don't know the model.

 

[rustred]

its called a tiller, the oneways were a lot wider and newer. i still have the ihc one dad and uncle used in the 1960's pulled with a massey 44 special and w 6.

 

[B A Star]

They are called "Wheatland Disc Plow" in the MM ads.   Don't believe they had a model number.   We had an 8ft on the farm in south central Nebraska when I grew up, pulled it with a MM "U".   Almost every one of our neighbors had one also.   Don't recall seeing any other brands than MM.

 

[GreenEnvy]

Disc tiller because the discs are mounted on a common shaft and are vertical. Disc plows have discs mounted on individual shanks and most of the time are slanted back.

 

[gene bender]

This was just on the web other day with pic of it from owners manual and it was called a disc plow.

 

[Dick2]

A sidebar story. My folks first farm was a rental just across the road from the Twin City Tractor Farm where they tested tractors and equipment made by Twin City before it became MM. One dry year the company sent out a new disc plow to be tested. The farm plowed under a half section (320 acres) of Quack Grass, which is usually very difficult to kill by cultivation. Because of the dry conditions, the Quack Grass all died.

Twin City came out with different versions of disc implements and promoted them as "Quack Grass Killers". People bought the implements, only to find out that in a normal year the implements would not kill Quack Grass. But it did establish Twin City (and later MM) in the disc business.

 

[Texasmark1]

We use those "one ways" down here in lieu of a mold board in the black clay when we want to roll vegetation like is done with a moldboard. The heavy wheels offset the torque of the "one way" (direction) tillage. I remember seeing an old JD with 16 discs of about 22" in diameter. Had a box full of dirt on top of it and a cast balance wheel that must have weighed 500#. Later on a second axle was added identical in the opposite direction to do the job and the wheels were eliminated.

Here's my current one way.

 

[Kent Petersen]

Deere made one also. they called theirs a sir flex tiller the shafts were shorter and would flex over rocks and shuts

 

[RayP(MI)]

We had a Deere. One axle, 5 blades, 4 foot cut. Places where it was about all our JD B wanted to pull. But it made quick work of sod. Second trip over (crosswise) wasn't much of a fun ride! Wish I could find one now.

 

[Bret4207]

(quoted from post at 09:21:39 08/30/16) We use those "one ways" down here in lieu of a mold board in the black clay when we want to roll vegetation like is done with a moldboard. The heavy wheels offset the torque of the "one way" (direction) tillage. I remember seeing an old JD with 16 discs of about 22" in diameter. Had a box full of dirt on top of it and a cast balance wheel that must have weighed 500#. Later on a second axle was added identical in the opposite direction to do the job and the wheels were eliminated.

Here's my current one way.

Everyone up here calls that an offset disc.

 

[wilson ind]

Hate to bring bad news , however when dirt is thrown two ways it is no longer a one-way. Most as in picture are called killefer disc and may be known by different names as dirt is thrown two ways. Just trying to be helpful.

 

[Leroy]

Disk tiller is what both John Deere And McCormick called them from factory. One way is just farmerized name and not a manufactures name. I had a Deere here in Ohio. and as said a disk tiller has all the blades on a single axle just like the right front gang on a regular tandem disk but several times heavier. A disk plow the blades are a lot farther apart and mounted individually like the bottom on a moldboard plow. Here if you would go to a dealer to buy parts and ask for parts for a one way the dealer could not find the implement in their parts lists, now if you asked for a disk tiller then the parts list could be found as that is the factory name for them. And that is what the name is on the operators manual as well and most manuals were thrown away without ever being opened or looked at to actually know how to operate the implement. The farmers thought they were smarter than the factory that designed and made the implement. I never could find a manual for my Deere but did find one for McCormick and made so simular that the McCormick did help me understand the operation of my Deere. Even Ford had one only it was a 3 point lift model instead of a drag type.

 

[tractorguy2]

Around here everyone had a Case. We call them a one-way.

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 19:26:35 08/29/16) This was given to me and not sure if it is a disc plow or one way disc! What brand and model number? Thanks

Could be Minneapolis. We called them tillers here and most companies offered a version. Very popular in the 40s, 50s . Many had the optional seeding attachment and became a dual purpose seeding and summerfallow implement. Cockshutt was a popular brand here. This ad shows a Massey Harris from 1938. Later years were on rubber tires.

 

[oc-18guy]

texasmark1 that is what I would call a off-set disk.

 

[Leroy]

That is offset, offsets have both a front and rear gang, one way or disk tiller has only one gang.

 

[Leroy]

Massey Harris is unique in calling it a one way, to Deere and IHC it is a disk tiller. Only a very few ever around and all I have ever seen are either Deere or NcCormick

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 12:06:20 08/30/16) Massey Harris is unique in calling it a one way, to Deere and IHC it is a disk tiller. Only a very few ever around and all I have ever seen are either Deere or NcCormick

"Tiller" was kind of the generic term for those one way disks around here way back when. Cockshutt went a little further calling their's the "Tiller combine".
This McCormick ad shows their version and that name , "harrow plow seeder" is a bit wordy so I'm betting everyone called it a tiller too.

 

[Texasmark1]

All you guys are correct. I had a brain pfart. Sorry for the disinformation. Hardly can call this a one way when it throws dirt both ways. But the 16 disc JD I mentioned was truly a one way....and a big, heavy, wheel.

 

[RBnSC]

Around here they called them a ?new ground plow? . They used them to plow freshly cleared land. Bil dragged one out of the woods I cut off the wheels and welded on a three point hitch. It worked great. we used it when we cleared our farm. It would cut roots and ride over any missed stumps.
Ron