Why a PTO powered disc?

[bcp]

Never saw one before.



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Bruce

 

[Troysie]

I have one, identical to one shown in above photo except I have repainted mine red. I use it in my field after I have harvested crops, it is called a disk plow, however here in New Brunswick my sod is too heavy and dry to use this as a sod cutter so I use it to level my field in preparation for next years crop. I have found it useful, it works well with my 75 hp , my old 30 hp massey is too light for it.

Troy

 

[bcp]

I am familiar with conventional discs of several kinds, and their use, but this one is powered. Does that let it do the work of a much heavier unpowered disc?

Bruce

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Never seen or heard of such a thing before. I've pulled lots of different kinds, brands and sizes of discs - tandem, offset and one-way - but this is a new one on me. Of course, all my experience is 40 years ago, so I'm stuck in the stone age.

 

[flusher]

Never saw one before.

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Bruce

Looks home brew to me--like someone modified a rototiller. Could be a joke:laughing:

 

[gwdixon]

The only reason I can think of for it is that the rotation causes the blades to cut the ground like slicing with a knife or saw blade. Maybe it could be used to cut through the roots of heavy sod.

Perhaps Troysie can elaborate on its use or point to a video of it being used.

 

[herringchoker]

I had never seen nor heard of one before seeing this thread, but I just googled a video of one at work:

China paddy disc plough -driving disc plough -rotary driven disc plough-skype:sdaili1918 - YouTube

 

[flusher]

I had never seen nor heard of one before seeing this thread, but I just googled a video of one at work:

China paddy disc plough -driving disc plough -rotary driven disc plough-skype:sdaili1918 - YouTube

Here's another video showing that disc plow operating as a primary tillage implement.

disk plow - YouTube

Nice combination of plow and disc action without flipping the soil like you get with a moldboard plow.