Thanks. I sold it (with a 3 pt mower) to someone in Indiana, a couple years ago. I still have the disc, out here.
How do you like the disk ?
I bought my 1951 Ford 8n, from the widow of the original owner, in 1988. They lived directly across the street, from the house where I grew up. I can remember my dad borrowing the 8n and the “Ferguson system” 6-1/2 ft 3-point disk that came with it, to use on our small vegetable garden, after he had plowed it up with grandpas John Deere model M and it’s mounted 2-bottom.
I paid the neighbor lady $1200 for the tractor, $ 225 for the disk, $ 125 for the plow, back in 1988. Those were about the same prices that were shown on the original 1951 bill of sale, at our local town Ford tractor dealer.
The plow and tractor worked great, but I never cared for the disk. In my opinion, the 3-point hitch was about the worst thing that ever happened to a disk. I’ve since acquired an old John Deere 8 ft pull type disk. The 8n pulls it easier than it ever did the 6.5 ft 3-point, and it takes many less passes with it to get the ground worked up good.
The only thing I like better about the 3-point disk is ease of road transport and use in very small places. I don’t deal with those issues much any more. One of the prettiest sights that I can remember is that 3-point disk leaving our farm in the back of a Craigslist readers pickup truck.
A few years ago, my father in law gave me an old 6.5 ft 3-point disk when he moved up to a retirement home in the mountains. I’ve used it a couple of times, at neighbors places, which served to refresh the “bad memories”.
