I bought a disc plow without even knowing what it was.

[wcampbell47]

Your tractor should have plenty of traction especially if you use 4 wd. I used to pull two discs mounted on wheels attached to the drawbar with a lot lighter 2 wd tractor. I would think the 3 point model would roll over a stump pretty easily. That would be my choice for a breaking plow. Never thought much about a mouldboard.

[kneedeep]

That is a garden making plow there!
It will flip the soil over and bury whatever is growing under neath a layer of dirt. Old timer that lived near me years ago had one for his 8N and made a huge garden every year, started off turning everything under. He made terraces to hold runoff on hills by plowing in both directions throwing up a 'levee' and with practice it will invert the soil completly.
Plows like that are hard to come by and someone would probably pay a fair price for it to turn soil.

[Piston]

how much did you pay for that it looks great.

I don't really know because it was all part of a 'deal' that a friend of mine worked out. I posted more about the price in this thread:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/a...utter-max.html
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[Piston]

Your tractor should have plenty of traction especially if you use 4 wd. I used to pull two discs mounted on wheels attached to the drawbar with a lot lighter 2 wd tractor. I would think the 3 point model would roll over a stump pretty easily. That would be my choice for a breaking plow. Never thought much about a mouldboard.

Thanks for the info! That's good to know that I should have enough power/traction. I won't be able to try it out for at least a week or so, and after that, depends on what I'll be doing for Thanksgiving, but I'll find an area I can tear up and give it a test

[crazyal]

I would love to hear how well it works for you. My soil is pretty rocky so I'm worried a tiller would be just a waste of time and a moldboard plow may have issues with the rocks, roots, and ledge around me. If you decide you don't need it let me know, I would be interested.

[Piston]

I would love to hear how well it works for you. My soil is pretty rocky so I'm worried a tiller would be just a waste of time and a moldboard plow may have issues with the rocks, roots, and ledge around me. If you decide you don't need it let me know, I would be interested.

Crazyal,
I can't imagine a disc plow would work any better than your Case 580 backhoe and 450 Dozer!
I could sure use a dozer on my land!

[Piston]

I would love to hear how well it works for you. My soil is pretty rocky so I'm worried a tiller would be just a waste of time and a moldboard plow may have issues with the rocks, roots, and ledge around me. If you decide you don't need it let me know, I would be interested.

Crazyal,
I can't imagine a disc plow would work any better than your Case 580 backhoe and 450 Dozer!
I could sure use a dozer on my land!

[crazyal]

I thought about just digging a foot down with the BH but thought it would be slow getting on and off to remove rocks and the dozer has a couple of leaks that may not help the garden grow. But most of all I have a 3 pt hitch and ag tires just begging to play in the dirt.

[duwem]

I built a smaller scale one from scratch for my garden tractor:

Works great in the right soil conditions. Hard soil it does not work.

[Piston]

Wow that is pretty impressive!

What did you use for paint? I'd like to have this sandblasted and prime and paint it, but I really have no idea what type of paint to use. I assume some sort of heavy duty epoxy paint or something?