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Old 03-15-2014, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Shaner View Post
I've been working on farms all my life. Most farms ive been on have parked the disk in favor of either no till, or field cultivators followed by a crumbled or a cultimulcher of some sorts. Plus certain disks leave "hills" that allot of farmers don't care for. Mainly because of the large gap between the two rear gangs.

Just stating I'm not a fan of disks. I'd rather have a field cultivator with a leveling bar of some sorts
A good disk won't ridge, if it's set right. Most of the time, a ridge is left because the operator is driving too fast.


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Originally Posted by clint View Post
angle is no substitute for weight, daddy had a set of harrows for his GT, I pulled it with no weight it wouldn't even go deep enough to cover a pea !! Added some weight to it it still wouldn't roll dirt lol. I need a miniature set of Taylor-way harrows or a offset harrow. I guess getting it to work to your expectations would only be possible after setting it up as a double gang ? Have you tried the harrow (just one set) yet if so does it work ?
It's not a "harrow" its a disk. You say that angle is no substitute for weight, and that you added weight and it still didn't work. Did you try changing the angle?


Listen guys I've ran way too much equipment for too many years to argue about this. Disks work. It's all about the setting. I'm confident this little disk will work, the question I have, is once I get it set up to do it's job, will I be able to pull it.


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Originally Posted by zippy1 View Post
I know I'm aging myself here, but back before all this modern day farming came about, to prepare a field we would start out with a disc to break open the soil. The idea of disc-in first was so when you came in with the plow it rolled the soil over better and there weren't big chunks.
We would first go length ways then the short way.
From there we would plow the field with a five bottom on the 856, then disc the field again length ways to level it and fill in the dead furrows, and then the short way.
Follow that up with the drag, long, short, long way and your field was prepared for planting.
I know you young guys think that's a lot of "farting around" but it made one beautiful, smooth field. Sure it was time consuming, but that was OK, because I was making $1.50 an hour
I still think a disc is all about the set up more so then weight.
Todd, I couldn't agree more!!
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