Added some weight to my disc today

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Today I added 58 pounds of washer fluid to each rear tire and 180 pounds to the disc. Hopefully that's enough to make it useful. I also changed the discs to push out and set them to the straightest position. The concrete block can also go on my blade and box scraper.

[J-Mech]

You listened to the wrong person.

You need to angle them more. Max position. On the Brinly disk's even that angle isn't enough, but it's all they gave you. The way you have it will be useless for what your doing with it. They are convex blades. The leading edge needs to be pointed as close to straight forward for it to do any tilling. Now, if you want to use it as a cultivator post emergence.... then the less severe angle would work. When the ground is soft and well tilled.


That's too much weight too... your going to break the frame of the disk.

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I see that in your post now, somehow I completely missed that when I read it. They are easy enough to adjust - just two bolts on each side.

Yes the weight is probably a bit heavy. I may build a lighter one for the disc and use this one on the blade. It's only about $10 to build another.

If the disc doesn't work well with this much weight I'll likely sell it. If it does work well, I plan to build a stronger frame and possibly convert it to a 3 point hitch style.


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[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by o---o

If it does work well, I plan to build a stronger frame and possibly convert it to a 3 point hitch style.

If your going to go to all that trouble, then find another disk and build a double gang.

[o---o]

Yep, just waiting for one to pop up on CL.