HP to pull disk

[MtnViewRanch]

Pictures, we are still waiting for pictures. :mur:

Maybe, before someone states something as fact, they should say as far as they know of. One of the world"s largest disk manufacturers still make the flexible worthless pieces of junk that have been referred to. Even in a few different models ranging from 8' 4"-22' 5". I don't see any transport wheels or rigid framework in their pics and why would they bother offering them if there was no market? There must be some sort of purpose for this type of disk other than yard art or scrap metal? :confused3: I know that I am quite happy with our disks, but now they are not warn out, but completely rebuilt a few years back.

 

[SPYDERLK]

45 HP 2wd will pull a weighted 8' transport disc Ok. On repeated passes the issue is power not traction. Might get by with 40HP if 4wd.
larry

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Maybe, before someone states something as fact, they should say as far as they know of.

Good advice, you should try it yourself.

Wolz isn't talking about offset disc's, neither am I.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Pictures, we are still waiting for pictures. :mur:

Maybe, before someone states something as fact, they should say as far as they know of. One of the world"s largest disk manufacturers still make the flexible worthless pieces of junk that have been referred to. Even in a few different models ranging from 8' 4"-22' 5". I don't see any transport wheels or rigid framework in their pics and why would they bother offering them if there was no market? There must be some sort of purpose for this type of disk other than yard art or scrap metal? :confused3: I know that I am quite happy with our disks, but now they are not warn out, but completely rebuilt a few years back.

"One of the worlds largest disc manufacturers"? OK....Less than 1/2 of 1% of the world market is "largest" in your opinion?

Maybe before someone states something as fact, they should say as far as they know of......

 

[MtnViewRanch]

"One of the worlds largest disc manufacturers"? OK....Less than 1/2 of 1% of the world market is "largest" in your opinion?

Maybe before someone states something as fact, they should say as far as they know of......

Well, you may have me there. I am just going off of what the sales guy told me at the World AG Expo, so shame on me for repeating that before actually checking it out. :ashamed: By the way, can you please post a link showing that "Less than 1/2 of 1% of the world market" ?

Besides all of this rhetoric has gotten way off the OP's question. :ashamed:

 

[Egon]

Nope...He's rambling on and on and on (in a long series of post's) about a clapped out antique DRAG disc. Try to keep up./QUOTE]

Show us!

All I see is PULL TYPE.

No reply??:laughing:

 

[mikehaugen]

This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you get those things to the field? The drag disc that is.

 

[pjbci]

Not a stupid question. The old drag disk were transported by taking all the "set" or angle out of the gangs. They would then just roll on the blades without disturbing the soil.

 

[Mochaman]

We farm 56 acres with a 49 hp WD45. I have a heavy duty wide front end not the factory wide front. We have 16.9's on the back with 15" rims. The soil is a nice river bottom sandy loam. Over the years I have used an 8' 3 pt disc and three different drag type disc's including a pair of 11' kewanee's. The 11 footers pulled better than the 8' 3pt. All of our drag types had hydraulic cylinders to lift and lower.

For the last several years we used an 18' batwing allis chalmers 2300 drag type disc built in 80's with the 17" fronts and 19" rears with 8" row spacing. We were going to pull it with the 190 but we pulled it with the wings up with a WD45. The disc was built in the 80's and is a drag type.

Now, however, we rototill with a couple of dead simple grey market 2pt rototillers converted to 3pt. We have a wopping 300 bucks invested in two of them. The chains inside are massive. I rebuilt them with new bearings and new seals and sleeves....no plow....no disc....no rotary hoe or drags and no more cultivator. I save about a day of work and about 30 gallons of fuel just prepping the field.

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures. I may have some after the fields are planted each year. If you contact the National Guard they should have thousands of them considering the amount of time they spend observing us from a beautiful blackhawk helicopter. I can't believe that in the last 24 years of observing us they haven't gotten bored. Sometimes they visit us over 20 times a season....sometimes they get irritable and give us a little wack with rotor wash. They must use a lot of fuel. We built them a big 100' smiley face tilled into the back field but I think they don't have much of a sense of humor.

Anyway, I liked using a drag type disc behind a 49hp allis until we found dirt cheap dead simple rototillers.

 

[foggy1111]

We farm 56 acres with a 49 hp WD45. I have a heavy duty wide front end not the factory wide front. We have 16.9's on the back with 15" rims. The soil is a nice river bottom sandy loam. Over the years I have used an 8' 3 pt disc and three different drag type disc's including a pair of 11' kewanee's. The 11 footers pulled better than the 8' 3pt. All of our drag types had hydraulic cylinders to lift and lower.

Anyway, I liked using a drag type disc behind a 49hp allis until we found dirt cheap dead simple rototillers.

Those disc's that have cylinders and wheels are actually called "transport discs" and not drag discs.

Funny how one guy can pull a set of blades thru the field and get one result....and another guy gets a different result. Still....they are all just disc blades of a given size....set at an angle. The three point lift or wheels or other means of moving em around are just that.