Brinley plow

[Everettlee]

How much wear before you replace the plow point or plow share

 

[digger]

How much wear before you replace the plow point or plow share

Post a pic for us to see.

 

[Everettlee]

Post a pic for us to see.

Unfortunately I will not be close to the plow for awhile

 

[Everettlee]

Actually this pic comes close

 

[digger]

Actually this pic comes close

Nothing wrong with that, Run it!

 

[Everettlee]

When I was a kid I used to put hard facing on cultivator points for dad. I may play with this some

 

[PACub100]

As a small family farm, my dad told me that he used to weld beads and grind them to build up his plow points when I was growing up because he was so tight on budget...

 

[dschwandt]

"Back in the day" they were welded, heated in a forge, hammered back into shape on a drop hammer then sharpened and polished on a huge floor grinder/polisher.

The Blacksmith shop in my town did a land office business restoring share points in the spring and fall and it was usually my 1st stop on the way home from school every day. (in the 50's). Big thrill for a 10 or 11 ten old boy was when he would let me don a huge helmet and watch as he welded. Many times I watched this process from start to finish and I can still picture Old Herb when he would fire up that big drop hammer you could hear it all over town WHAM, WHAM, WHAM!!!

Although I suspect the Amish folks may still do some of this but, sadly, now days I'm afraid that's pretty much a lost art and just another thing of the past and fast becoming a distant memory for a lot of us small town folks my age.

The blacksmith shop still stands, was closed in the late 60's IIRC, contents auctioned off and the last time I looked inside, the forge was still there right where it had been built it into the north wall of the bldg. The city owns it now and it's used for storage.

 

[alan]

Back in the early sixties I went to Cal Poly ( which today is Coal Poly State University) and 1 of the classes I took was blacksmithing. That 1st day of class instructor passed out about 15 inch pieces of scrap metal little over half inch wide to each of us. He then took one stuck at the forge got the center red-hot, put it on the anval and hit it about twice then stuck it back in the forge and bent the ends with a few more hammer strokes to the shape of a horseshoe. he then had a metal pattern of a horseshoe and dropped it on the floor and told someone to draw around it with soapstone. He then took his worship fees of metal and dropped it on the floor and it fit perfectly within the pattern he had drawn. That he told us if seeing how it is done go to it. Of course there was a lot more to it than it looked, and we did not do very well on our 1st few attempts. He was a real craftsman and a genius at making things out of iron. At the end of the class I forged of nice small set of tongs out of scrap metal was really tickled with them. It's

 

[jkluewer]

This is one of them I replaced on my 2 bottom.
I replaced it with a used one from another plow

 

[dschwandt]

Back in the day I think there were replacement points that could be welded to fix those, for 14's and 16's but probably not the smaller 10's & 12's
Otherwise in needs to be heated in a forge and drawn back out, sharpened and polished.