Dirt hanging up in my disc

[Keithhayes13]

I have a 35hp mahindra. I pull a disc with two sets of eight disc. I seem to have a problem with the dirt compacting between the disc with no support element between them. This build up of dirt keeps my disc from digging deeper. I tend to think this is related to my south Louisiana black jack soil. I was thinking to weld some angle iron between them to kick this dirt out. Any one else have this problem

 

[rockinmywaypa]

ours packs up if the soil is too wet to be on it, easy solution is wait til it's drier or if its border line and you have to do it you can put chains around frame and disc axle to stop the dirt from collecting.

 

[Alan W.]

Mine use to fo the same thing. Got a tiller and havent used it since. There are scrapers that mount on the frame and run close to the disc to prevent this from occuring. I was going to make or buy some for mine before I got the tiller.
Now that you have reminded me of this I may go ahead and fix mine. May want to use it again someday.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Both good ideas

 

[oosik]

The VERY FEW times my soil is wet - early spring - the volcanic ash and clay/silt will hang up between and in the disks. My solution - wait until the ground is dryer.

 

[searcyfarms]

i love my tiller, if you don't have good scrapers they will ball up like that when its wet - i can get a lot more work done with the disk but the tiller does a nice job if you need things garden like

 

[MHarryE]

Chains work okay but can also allow jams in tough conditions. Best are scrapers but I’ve never seen them offered on small discs. I gave an old horse drawn single disc as yard art and it has an elaborate scraper system. My 2 ag discs have scrapers but my heavy duty King Kutter box frame disk has no scraper provision so I have chains which are eating into the spools.