plow points

[mitchmaine]

for sale or trade:
six pair (left and right) of brand new (sixty years old, never used) john deere (syracuse) plow points. safe to say by now i won’t need them all.

[Jay]

What are you asking if I might ask, Mitch? Jay

[mitchmaine]

hey jay,
i hadn’t gotten that far yet. they are mostly 12 ” and some bolt on and some clip in and are held fast with a ringbolt over a nub on the back of the point. they are all covered with parts numbers, and if there is anything there that works for you we could talk. i’m selling them as working parts, not antiques, so njot too much i guess.

mitch

[ghoward]

Do these points have the numbers 1342 and 1442 on them? Also, where are they located? Thanks

[jason glick]

hey mitch. i’d be interested. got a pole on my syracuse before all the rain and tried her out. added a seat so i could adjust the pole left and right, i think you need to stop in and check it out. i’ll do some more harrowing in the meantime to get em in shape.. cheers, jason

[mitchmaine]

1342h is a common number. some are different, though all have the same shape. no shin. a couple reconditioned. an odd lot.
jason, i can throw a couple pair in the truck and swing over and we could try and match a set or two. mitch

[TBigLug]

Are any of them for a 16″? Grandpa’s got a JD plow his dad bought new the year he was born (1931) and is still sporting the same point since about the early 1960’s.

Where are the part umbers at? Maybe I can see if mine has any.

[mitchmaine]

great looking plow john. the numbers are cast into the back of the point and you might not be able to see them easily without unbolting it. that old iron is very forgiving and the nuts break easier on those old bolts than you might think. you probably know that. some plow shares go with differnt size widths of points. we have only 12″. quite a stretch to a 16″. then you would have to deal with wheel spacing. i broke a point on a hard to find plow once and we welded a short strip of leaf spring ontop of the point. it worked pretty good and had better suction that the plow had before. lookd like yours might have some life in it yet. good plowing. mitch

[TBigLug]

Where did you weld it on? My mind’s not working too sharply right now (just got home off a 13 hour day). Can you scribble something on photoshop on the top photo to help me grasp the idea? I’d love to get the old girl going strong again. Plows pretty good now but suction is definitely lacking on hard clay’ish soils.

[mitchmaine]

@TBigLug 27605 wrote:

Where did you weld it on? My mind’s not working too sharply right now (just got home off a 13 hour day). Can you scribble something on photoshop on the top photo to help me grasp the idea? I’d love to get the old girl going strong again. Plows pretty good now but suction is definitely lacking on hard clay’ish soils.

hi john, it’d be a 2″ by 4″ peice cup down welded right on to the very point and extending out and down to were the worn tip might have been. it was a last ditch experiment to fix a point that couldn’t be replaced and worked pretty good.
a friend has a 14″ syracuse point that might be your point. he was cleaning up his barn and set it aside. it looked like a right hand and might fit your plow. i’ll get the numbers for you.
mitch

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