kevin37b
Veteran Member
No more than you are going to use them , buy both of them . When one falls apart , go get the other one . Call the scrap man and go shopping again .
i have the #37 in a 12ft and I pull it with a jd 5400 2wd its 68 hp I can pull it with a 14 ft packer behind it. It does a crappy job in a hay field. I grow teff hay and plant every year. the disk and packer dont leave a smooth field. If you do use this set up you will need to use another implement to level ground or you will have a mess of a hayfield. just my .02
TnWV,
I doubt that you find another brand or style disk that will do a marked difference by itself, but attaching a spike tooth or chain link fence like drag harrow behind the disk harrow will greatly smooth out the soil. You are not talking thousand or even hundreds of acres, disk a second time if needed, using the drag/chain link only on the second disking.
I say go for the IH 37 disks.
TnWV,
I doubt that you find another brand or style disk that will do a marked difference by itself, but attaching a spike tooth or chain link fence like drag harrow behind the disk harrow will greatly smooth out the soil. You are not talking thousand or even hundreds of acres, disk a second time if needed, using the drag/chain link only on the second disking.
I say go for the IH 37 disks.
My wheel disc is a Minneapolis Moline KA-1300 tandem design (4 axles, 12 pans (20" size) per axle, 13-ft wide). Made by Krause. Bought it from my tractor guy ($600 including delivery).
I can pull it with my 2008 Mahindra 5525 (55 hp engine, don't know the drawbar hp) in dry soil. But it bogs down fast in damp soil.
So I cut it down to about 8 ft wide (7 pans per axle) so the 5525 can handle it in softer soil.
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Your tractors ought to be able to handle your 12-ft disc OK.
Good luck.
I use the "frost seeding" method for my Rye grass. I prep the field in Oct. so the freeze/thaw cycles mellow the dirt back out. But then my field is pretty flat, but enough grade to drain well, so no erosion worries. You may want to check it out, and see if it will work for you. Too late for this year, but maybe next..?? I've had great results so far.
Going with some Tuukka Timothy this spring, but using a slit seeder for that, as it's a warm weather grass. Hopefully it won't tear things up too bad...