Disk = Harrow? What do you call a disk?

[Slacker]

I'm a little confused by the terms. Is a disk the same as a harrow?
For example, when someone says they "disked" a field, did they use a disk harrow or some other implement?

 

[Soundguy]

A 'harrow' is a broad term, a 'disc' is a specific term.. thus a 'disc harrow is a type of harrow using disc's.

There are chain or 'drag' harrows which are flat mats made of link or chainwork.. usually have a n agressive and non agressive side, used mostly for covering seed, slight leveling or covering grad/box marks in prep for sod, or for busting dirt or maneuer clods.

There are also other harrow types.. like rotary units that have down pointing tines on a horizontal deck that rotates as the tractor moves .. horse areenas and 'rodeo' areenas ' usually employ this type.

Still there are others with tines, spring teeth or spikes.. etc... etc.

Some Harrows are very similar to cultivators and have some overlap in capabilities / duties.

Generally if someone said they 'disc'd' a pasture.. they used a disc harrow on it.

( to really mess you up.. there is a 'disc' plow as well as the conventional moldboard blow.. as well as middle busters, potato plows and sub soiler tye rippers.. etc.. )

Here's a like to a wiki reference to an agricultural harrow: not the best site.. but they get it right sometimes..

Harrow (tool) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Soundguy

 

[Ford850]

A harrow is anything you drag over a field to break up the soil and level it. A Disk is one of many types of harrows.
(sorry, submitted while Soundguy was giving a much better explaination)

 

[6sunset6]

What is the difference between rototilling and disk harrowing?

 

[Farmwithjunk]

There's "the definition" and then there's "what everyone calls them". Around here a disc is a disc. A harrow is something you generally drag BEHIND the disc. Call a disc a harrow or a disc harrow and farmers from this area will look at you like you're a bit strange. In fact, you won't find too many older farmers that say "harrow" . Around these parts, it's pronounced "har-ee". But then again, we're all a bunch of hillbillies

 

[silverking]

A disk needs to be pulled along and a rototiller is a pto powered implement that spins tines and requires no forward motion to be operated, of course with no forward motion its only tilling the spot its in.

 

[scott_vt]

Around these parts, it's pronounced "har-ee". But then again, we're all a bunch of hillbillies

Mornin Bill,
Now thats classic " Hillbilly" slang fer sure !!!

 

[6sunset6]

Ah What I meant was what is the difference in the working of the soil between disking and rototilling. Always interesting in what you think you are saying and what other people hear.

 

[silverking]

A set of disk's will chop a single slice as they are pulled along and a rototiller is like a sideways blender obliterating everything into a fine medium. Hope ya hear what I said.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Mornin Bill,
Now thats classic " Hillbilly" slang fer sure !!!

One of my uncles married a girl from New York. Their "cultures" mixed for a few years. Then they put "earl" in their car engine and went to visit her brother "oil".