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Cal Innes

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I came across this plow made by the Killifer Mfg. co. in Los Angeles, Cal. and was told it was used for laying cable .... I'm not so sure about that. got any ideas? The fellow used to pull it whith a D-7 Cat. The wheels are nearly 6 feet tall. For sale too, 2,500 bucks!
Cal
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Sorry for the duplicate image.... it is the first time posting a picture , but I think I got the hang of it now!
Cal
 
I have seen a simaliar plow in the flood plains of the Missoui river at Nebraska City. It was for deep plowing to turn the silt under was pulled by a BIG Cat.
gitrib
 
I'm with gitrib. It is used to plow under sand and silt after washed unto top soil along rivers and creeks.

Gary
 
one of the magazines a few months ago had some pictures of one that was 10 times bigger that was used on silt at Huntington CA I think it was pulled by two d-8s tandem.
 
Hay Guys, thats not a plow share its more like a lister. Look closely it has a mold board on both sides and no land slide.

I would guess it could be used for ditching, maybe to drain lowlands ( did they really do that?) so it could dry out.

The point is realy out there so it could have been used to place cable of some type?

Ok done guessing.
 

Cal,

I have one very similar , but the wheels
are about 4 feet high. I have both the subsoiler
leg and the ditching plow ,leg will go down 2
ft and plow is 18 or 20 deep and near 3 ft
wide. It is a Killifer model 20 A. A fellow
near here has a slightly bigger 22 A .
We used to drain swamps with ours , drop it
in the low point ,put a lone cable to the far
side and pull it through. Also drained wet
land with leg and mole, drop in creek and
pull up grade ,makes like a tile in the soft
clay.

george
 
Being a V plow it looks like it can be used by anyone wanting to make a ditch either to bring the water in or drain it out. I sure wouldn't want to be the person who levels the ground for planting after it's used as a moldboard plow.
 
I agree with the lister determination. Obviously has two moldboard sides to it. I do remember a farm magazine article, late 50s, early 60s, about a humongous single bottom moldboard plow in MI that took a couple Cats to pull it, plowed over four feet deep, bringing up clay in a sandy field- like we had...mixing it together...making better soil out of it. We had bottom ground like that- leveled out the drainage ditch bank, which was mixed soil...grew much better crops than the rest of the field. We had 80 acres with marl and clay 2-3 feet down, sandy loam on top. Water table was 5 feet down....roots couldn"t get through the sand to reach it. Lots of acres across the ditch was owned by local bank- in the last few decades, ditch was deepened, all is tillable now. Pretty much the same idea I had when I was 18, wanting to make a workable farm out of the (mostly worthless land then) across and beyond the ditch.
 
My best friends Dad had a home made one similar to that to plow ditches. They pulled it with a D8 and an 8430 JD. It did a beautiful job.
Ron
 
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