how to transport a set of drag discs

[MH50]

I have a set of antique pull type discs. I think they are 5 or 6 feet across. I was wondering if anyone has figured out a way to transport these? I need to haul them 2 miles or so down the road to my neighbors.

I want to hook them to my tractor and go. I don't want to trailer them. Thanks for any ideas!

 

[aczlan]

Best way is to load them on a trailer and pull them on that. Otherwise you could convert it to a transport disc, but that would take some doing.

Aaron Z

 

[Sterff]

I don't see how you could do it without a trailer or truck. If you have a FEL you may be able to carry it down the road.

 

[aczlan]

Do you have a picture of the disc in question? If it is small enough (and you have enough front weight), you might be able lift it with a 3 point boom pole while it is attached to the back of the tractor.

Aaron Z

 

[SandburRanch]

Back in the "Good Old Days" they were adjusted so they had no bite and pulled down the road as long as it was dirt. Well, in fact there weren't too many paved roads and that was perfectly acceptable as it only left little narrow cuts that the WD-45 Allis maintainer could take care of the next time it rained. If it ever did. Or you could flip it over and let the frame rest on a skid you just built and drag it with your tractor.

 

[gwdixon]

I use a forklift QA and 3 chains. A chain at each corner to the forklift frame and a long, tight chain about 6" short of the tips of the forklift. And LOTS of ballast. Rolling back the forks lifts the disc.

The tongue is left to hang free on mine but you may need a chain or rope to lift yours in the air to keep it from dragging.

When I used a pin-on bucketed tractor, two chains were draped over the bucket edges fore to aft and hooked to the disc. With the bucket rolled back the edge of the bucket kept the chains from slipping. Not the best or most secure method but it worked.

However, with these set-ups the disc was never hauled more than about a quarter mile.

 

[Mace Canute]

Back in the "Good Old Days" they were adjusted so they had no bite and pulled down the road as long as it was dirt. Well, in fact there weren't too many paved roads and that was perfectly acceptable as it only left little narrow cuts that the WD-45 Allis maintainer could take care of the next time it rained. If it ever did. Or you could flip it over and let the frame rest on a skid you just built and drag it with your tractor.

That's the way I used to do it when I was a kid on the farm. An old, old set of 10' tandem disc harrows behind an Allis Chalmers WC older than me. Talk about noisy on a gravel road as the discs hit the rocks! I can still hear the fingernails-on-blackboard sound of them when I think back!

 

[strum456]

That's the way I used to do it when I was a kid on the farm. An old, old set of 10' tandem disc harrows behind an Allis Chalmers WC older than me. Talk about noisy on a gravel road as the discs hit the rocks! I can still hear the fingernails-on-blackboard sound of them when I think back!

Yep, I am hearing that sound as I type this.

If you have a hay wagon, Id load them on there with a fel. Tow the wagon with the fel tractor, then unload when you get there.

 

[MH50]

ok thanks for all the ideas, I have a FEL, and a trailer and a truck, but i want to use my farmall H (which doesnt have a FEL) to pull the discs. The road i need to travel is also paved and i have to go through town. I was thiniking about attaching an old trailer axle to the top and rear of the discs and just flipping them over to haul down the road. Maybe someone has done somthing like this?


thanks everyone!

 

[bcp]

Some ideas:

Google images

Bruce