California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
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- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
This is what I expect clemsonfor would discover too. He and I have 2 wheel drive.1st try in FL dirt, (called sand most other places), without 4wd engaged wasn't great. The rear tires would break in the soft ground with the rice tires.
I have some spots that have been in continuous cultivation 90 years that I can disc ok with the 6 ft disc, going level and then downhill. Turning around and coming back up the slope is another matter, it struggles, spins, digs, and pretty much requires the differential lock.

Helping my neighbor disc a parcel where his identical orchard was abandoned 20 years ago was another matter. Several passes still didn't cut through the thatch and grass roots very well. Rather, it just scrubbed the grass off the surface. And I was ballasted heavy enough to require slow H2 gear where H3 would have been preferred.

Here's the old thread where I first posted that photo. Again, the thread topic is "what size disc for my YM2000?"