anyone know what this is?

I reckon the two items are not related. The front part looks like half of an International Disc Harrow. At least that is what we called them here in Australia. The second part seem to me to belong to a much heavier disc. I don’t think the International Disc Harrow was ever horse drawn but i could be wrong.

Steven F

I am not sure of the brand, but it is a disc almost identical to the ones we used to farm with back in Indiana. I grew up pulling one just like it from the early 50’s and into the mid 60’s before we had hydraulics on our tractors. We had 4 or 5 of these just like those you pictured. The front part with the tongue tossed the dirt out and the ones following tossed the dirt back into where it came from. We pulled them with John Deere tractors. There are levers on them to adjust the cutting depth. They hooked to the tractor with a pin. They were old when I was young and I remember being in the fields at about 8 yrs of age which would have been in 1954. My grandpa farmed with mules prior to 1950, but he bought a 1938, 1947, and 1948 John Deere to farm with in about 1950. I’d guess the discs were probably built in the 30’s or early 40’s. I put a lot of hours pulling these discs, but none we had had a seat on them. I am pretty sure the ones we had were never pulled by horses or mules.

Are they worth fixing is a whole other question. I think they are sweet looking set of discs. I will guess this has wood bushings that needing replaced (surprisingly you can sometimes buy those). The grease cups have no tops and some appear missing. These could be replaced with zerks. Some discs appear broken and these shafts can be a bear to take apart. Also this is a good size disc (not sure how long), but it might need three horses in some conditions, and the full tandam might use six. If it was close by and I could get it for near free, I would drag it home!