New Tractor Owner with some questions

[WesternPABrent]

Hello,
I have upgraded my current typical garden tractor to a Kubota B2601. I mow about 3 acres and will now have the ability to plant a few food plots below my house in a large field. My question is what size disc can a B2601 pull? It is a 25.5 Gross HP and 19.5 PTO HP and a 4x4. I don't see myself using a disc on more than a few acres at a time and I'd like to get a cultipacker as well. Thanks for any information you can give. I am really a newbie here.
Thanks

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Congrats on you new toy... I mean tool!
Your owner's manual should have a table with the max size of various implements. Start there.

 

[WesternPABrent]

Congrats on you new toy... I mean tool!
Your owner's manual should have a table with the max size of various implements. Start there.

It's being delivered Monday... I am left here to sit and wonder! I can't take the anticipation haha

 

[nybirdman]

Hello,
I have upgraded my current typical garden tractor to a Kubota B2601. I mow about 3 acres and will now have the ability to plant a few food plots below my house in a large field. My question is what size disc can a B2601 pull? It is a 25.5 Gross HP and 19.5 PTO HP and a 4x4. I don't see myself using a disc on more than a few acres at a time and I'd like to get a cultipacker as well. Thanks for any information you can give. I am really a newbie here.
Thanks

I would skip the disc and get a tiller.Disc rely on weight and the smaller tractors will struggle with a heavy disc.With a tiller and HST you will do a great job with one pass where a disc will require multiple passes.

 

[The Deerslayer]

Congratulations and post some pics when you get it. I agree with the advice on checking the manual regarding specs. I suggest looking used for the implements, but if you decide to go new, see if the dealer will work with you.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I would skip the disc and get a tiller.Disc rely on weight and the smaller tractors will struggle with a heavy disc.With a tiller and HST you will do a great job with one pass where a disc will require multiple passes.

I agree, I have a Massey about the same size and I have a 60" KK tiller and I love it. If you try to just disc a field that has been in grass for a good while you will make a lot of trips over the same spot just to break up the sod. I can make two passes over the same field with the tiller and give it a few days for the grass to die and till it once more and it is ready to plant.

 

[WesternPABrent]

So you all don't spray the fields before you till them? You just till the grass under? Would spraying help the process along?

 

[jeff9366]

I would skip the disc and get a tiller.

This is wisdom.

For a Disc Harrow to be effective it must have minimum of 40 pounds bearing on each pan. This means a minimum of 18" diameter pans and a box frame. Plus, a Disc Harrow must be pulled at 4 - 5 mph in order for it to mix the soil. Your B2601 does not have the weight nor horsepower to move an effective Disc Harrow 4 - 5 mph.

Disc Harrows and PTO powered roto-tillers are two forms of soil mixing tillers. You will be much happier with a roto-tiller behind a B2601.

LINK DISC HARROW SELECTION: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/308251-disc-harrow-selection-18-45-a.html?highlight=

 

[nybirdman]

You may want to;cut as short as possible,spray with round-up,plow with an inexpensive middle buster(potato plow)THEN TILL.
Sod is very tough to break with a roto-tiller.

 

[jeff9366]

You should type B2601 into the SEARCH BOX. Results will occupy you until tractor is delivered Monday.