RobJ
Elite Member
I've seen a few of these posts and here are a couple fresh pics from this past weekend. The tractor is a L2500 and the disc is a light duty 5' that I picked up for $200 used. I'm preping a food plot here in some nice sandy loam. This is probably the 3rd pass on this spot. A few weeks ago I use my cultivator to sort of rake the coastal off the top, so most of the grass was gone. I have to feather is disc to keep from burying the tractor. Just before I stopped to take the pic I lowered the 3pt all the way down. You can see that the soil is up to the axles and would have shortly started to build up in front before the tractor would have started to spin. A 4wd tractor would probably not have gotted me much further. With this same disk in clay I add a 200+# flywheel to the back and get into that soil maybe 3". No problem pulling in that stuff.
I usually try and pull the disc in 3rd gear high range. I like to get up some speed if I can to get the flip action going more. But with a small tractor is is a pain to pull a disc in lose soil.
In the 3rd pic you can see the clay river bottom and the extra weight. In the last pic with no tractor in it you can see the clay results. This is probably 10-12 passes!! That's all she will do, just a few inches.
Rob
I usually try and pull the disc in 3rd gear high range. I like to get up some speed if I can to get the flip action going more. But with a small tractor is is a pain to pull a disc in lose soil.
In the 3rd pic you can see the clay river bottom and the extra weight. In the last pic with no tractor in it you can see the clay results. This is probably 10-12 passes!! That's all she will do, just a few inches.
Rob