How wide a disk harrow for a 2660?

[Haywire]

Just a 4 footer to cover the tracks or can it pull a 5 foot disk?

Ian

 

[Jeff F.]

I would think if you have light soil and don't set the disk too deep, it will pull it if you have R4 tires. My turfs don't do as well.

 

[art]

Could I talk you into a four foot tiller?

 

[Haywire]

Sure... if you include the added cost... A tiller would be preferable except for doubling the price tag.

Ian

 

[bp fick]

Haywire, is this patch you showed on the other thread the garden you're thinking about? Do you have anymore plots to work, or is this about it?

 

[Haywire]

I'd probably be doing 2 others that size if I got the implements.. friends gardens.

 

[art]

With a tiller you at most might be two times across and you are done.

With a disc, while you will never get it to work as good as the tiller even on the tenth trip!!!!

 

[MMagis]

With a tiller you at most might be two times across and you are done.

With a disc, while you will never get it to work as good as the tiller even on the tenth trip!!!!

Not true at all. I can do it just as well with a disc, and do it faster and cheaper.

 

[TripleR]

Depends again on your soil. We have disks and with our hard clay soil, you might as well save your time unless you plow first. It takes a very heavy disk on our fields to get by without breaking the soil up.

If the ground is not tilled regularly, like in a field, all a 4-5-6 foot light to medium disk behind a compact tractor is going to do is scratch the ground up a bit unless you spend all day running around on it and you still won't get good penetration. We have to use a rotary tiller, plow or something.

All dirt is not the same.

 

[MMagis]

I guess I was assuming we weren't talking about sod. Neither a disk nor a tiller is designed to break soil, though both will with enough time.