Disc for Kubota M5040

[LeadPoison]

I have the notched blades.

Here is a pic from website. I don't know about lever adjustment, but I simply pull a pin and slide the gangs to the desired angle and reinsert the pin.

Here's a picture from their site:

 

[remington270]

Take the guy's advice, don't plow! It makes a very uneven seedbed and is hard to even out. Just get a 6-8' disc and go to town with it. We have an m7040 and about a 7.5' disc and I've added two 55 gal barrels filled with water to the top and it digs in good even on new ground.
My plow is basically retired.

 

[EddieWalker]

Since you are looking to buy used and keep the cost down, just about anything decent will do. You can spend a lot of time fine tuning what you want, but with that much HP and 4x4, just about any 3pt disk will work. I have an angle iron one that I use twice a year. I bought it used on Craigslist for $300. After 8 years, I broke two discs planting my food plot for this years deer season and need to replace them before April when I plant my spring food plot.

If I had it to do all over again, I would prefer to have bought a bigger disk with a box frame, but I wonder if it would be worth the extra cost for something I use so little? I disk up half an acre. I've had four different food plots and my soil is hard clay. It takes many, many passes over it to get it to start to work, but then after awhile it happens, and the ground turns to powder. It's a wonderful feeling and something that I enjoy seeing happen.

For a food plot, you don't really need to disk down all that far, which means you don't need to have really large disks. Nothing that you will be planting will need more then an inch or two of soil over it, and most you can just broadcast and drag.

Ideally, hope to find an 8 foot, box frame, 3pt disk with lots of grease fittings. You have the power to handle it. I wouldn't go any smaller then six foot, you'll just wish you had a bigger one every time you use it. Since this is just for a food plot, all you want to do is turn over the ground. It's not farming, it's not gardening, it's just turning over the dirt.

Watch Craigslist, do a state wide search on Craigslist, check ebay, look on your local classifieds, go to local auctions and google what you are looking for in your area. I've found that when I need something, I often find it in a few months of online searching for a good price.

Eddie



Eddie

 

[Barneyhunts]

Tyler
I use a Kubota L4240 on my food plots. My soil is hard and rocky. I had a Woods rototiller but using it in the soil I have was abusive to the machines and to me. I use a Howse 12" two bottom plow(depending on your soil you could probably pull a 14" or 16") and a 7' box frame disc. I find it quicker to plow and disc than to try with the disc alone. The disc I use is from Tractor Supply and I would check their prices before buying used. Some of their stores sell County Line others King Kutter. I've used them both and they work, but I used the heavy or box frame models. I'd recommend you get a disc large enough to cover your wheel tracks and small enough to maneuver in your plots. I also use a smaller tractor and a 4' lawn roller in place of a cultipacker, but when the roller's ready to be replaced I'll get a packer. I plant about 5 acres of plots ranging in size from 1/4 acre to 1 acre.
Barney

 

[bossgobbler]

Thanks again to anyone that has chipped in to help with my decision. I still have not purchased a disc, plow, or tiller. I'm still trying to decide what route I want to go. Is the general consensus that a disc, or disc & plow combination would be adequate for food plot work? I still am getting feedback that a tiller with no disc or plow is better, and others are saying a disc is plenty. I could wait till late summer to do any ground work and just buy a tiller then. I will be able to save some money to buy a nice tiller. If a disc and plow are plenty though, I would like to get them now so that I can get the ground worked up and limed so the plots are ready for fall food plots.We have some topsoil but it turns to clay not very deep from the surface. Can anyone toss out some estimated prices of what I should expect to pay for a new 6 foot tiller, a used 6'-7' 3pt disc, used 2 bottom plow, and a nice used 8' cultipacker? I appreciate the help! Thanks again!

 

[foreman Etexas]

I have a 7ft,3pt disc I used with my old M5040 and I didn't like having to make the several passes,so got a 74" tiller,tractor handles both no problem. If I had a place where may have hidden objects,the disc is the way to go. But if you know your place and its free of objects the tiller to me is hands down better and quicker. I haven't seen any difference from using the disc over the tiller on how good my plots yields but running the disc several passes,i would have to drag my 12ft chain harrow to level,so can run my 12ft roller,to get a nice level plot,not the tiller for my place one pass, bed is ready for seed and nice and level. However the bed gets ready,i find it just as important to get the seed covered and packed down,it makes a big difference in how mine turn out.

 

[IgroRockwell]

Although I am sure my soil is completely different from Texas soil, I completely agree with what foreman Etexas said. I have tried most every way to prepare my seed beds: plowing followed by disking, just disking, just tilling, tilling then disking. I have settled on tilling followed by one pass with the disc. I tried planting a freshly tilled piece with clover one year and almost nothing came up because the soil was too loose for the seed. One pass with the disk makes rototilled soil just right here. Then I drill and roll, rolling being the most important part. I would like to get something like a nice big solid stand seeder. I think that would be perfect behind a rototiller. My $0.02.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Thanks again to anyone that has chipped in to help with my decision. I still have not purchased a disc, plow, or tiller. I'm still trying to decide what route I want to go. Is the general consensus that a disc, or disc & plow combination would be adequate for food plot work? I still am getting feedback that a tiller with no disc or plow is better, and others are saying a disc is plenty. I could wait till late summer to do any ground work and just buy a tiller then. I will be able to save some money to buy a nice tiller. If a disc and plow are plenty though, I would like to get them now so that I can get the ground worked up and limed so the plots are ready for fall food plots.We have some topsoil but it turns to clay not very deep from the surface. Can anyone toss out some estimated prices of what I should expect to pay for a new 6 foot tiller, a used 6'-7' 3pt disc, used 2 bottom plow, and a nice used 8' cultipacker? I appreciate the help! Thanks again!

Looks like most guys are saying to go with a tiller. I recently priced a 74" heavy duty Korean made tiller and it was $2500. I will trade my 74" Bush Hog brand tiller on the new Korean unit. The dealer has offered me $1000 for my used one.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I would recommend going with a 6-7' disc for your food plots. Here are my reasons why. If you have lots of vegetation on the plots, the tiller will become clogged with that vegetation. If you have any rocks, stumps, tree branches, etc. in your plots, the tiller will find them and all **** will break loose.

If you know your plots are clean, you can probably get away with the tiller. And I agree that it will do a better job in less passes than a disc. In my case, I'm not willing to take the chance of damaging my tiller in a food plot. It's a lot easier and cheaper to repair a disc, than a tiller.

My tiller is used for tilling athletic fields, where there is little chance of hitting something that will damage my tiller, but it has happened......

 

[bossgobbler]

When you are talking about unexpected or expected things in the food plot that might damage a tiller, how big of things are we talking? I know some of the areas have small saplings and root systems throughout. stumps are probably minimal. Branches and surface rocks can be removed. Unseen rocks could be a problem I guess but for the most part our soil isn't rocky. If I cut a few saplings out would you guys be worried that a small stump(maybe 1"-2"-3") would be bad on a tiller? I looked at 6' landpride tiller new for $2800. Is that reasonable? A 6-7' disc was used for $500. The disc seems nice and heavy but I don't know what to compare it to. 8' cultipacker for around $400. Any input on those prices?

 

[foreman Etexas]

Can always get the disc now and after awhile you will have the stumps and everything cleared and get the tiller later. I will still use my disc when planting areas just cleaned up with dozer, the tiller is pretty tough but just not worth the chance tearing it up,until I know the area is good...


My tiller is a 74" TerraForce was $1750