J
JCB
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Marsh,
I pull a 6' disk with a JD 2210 in heavy soil. The disk is older, adjustable and fairly light. It needs to be weighted down to do much digging. The tractor is somewhere around 18hp drawbar, and has filled tires and plenty of suitcase weights up front.
In high gear, the tractor will NOT pull the weighted disk at it's most aggresive/angled setting. Moving the disk down to a middle/angled setting the tractor will pull the disk in high gear, uphill slopes are still a problem though.
In low gear the tractor will pull the disk fine in any setting, any slope, but low range does not have the ground speed for the disk to fling and turn the soil over properly.
Typically new disking takes several passes with small bites. For the smaller areas I'm working now a tiller works much better.
In my case, I'm pretty sure 5 more hp disking would be a big difference. More HP would be even better. 20 more HP and I'd probably start wanting a bigger disk.
Hope that helps.
Joe
I pull a 6' disk with a JD 2210 in heavy soil. The disk is older, adjustable and fairly light. It needs to be weighted down to do much digging. The tractor is somewhere around 18hp drawbar, and has filled tires and plenty of suitcase weights up front.
In high gear, the tractor will NOT pull the weighted disk at it's most aggresive/angled setting. Moving the disk down to a middle/angled setting the tractor will pull the disk in high gear, uphill slopes are still a problem though.
In low gear the tractor will pull the disk fine in any setting, any slope, but low range does not have the ground speed for the disk to fling and turn the soil over properly.
Typically new disking takes several passes with small bites. For the smaller areas I'm working now a tiller works much better.
In my case, I'm pretty sure 5 more hp disking would be a big difference. More HP would be even better. 20 more HP and I'd probably start wanting a bigger disk.
Hope that helps.
Joe