When I said an H could pull a 16ft disc

[FarmboyBill]

heres pics ofit

[haypoint]

Well, what you said was true. But I think for someone that is turning to you for advice, that was a bit misleading, IMHO. That disc in the picture is set far straighter than any useful disc I have ever seen. More like a light weight cultipacker set that way. Plus it is only half a disc. Ever since the old gray mare went out to pasture 70 years ago, tractor discs are double discs. You show the front half of a disc. Where did the other half go? If you want to calm a plowed field into a seed bed, you'll need to put some angle on each gang and hook the back half back onto it.
I don't mean to criticize, but you may have wrongly encouraged some nimrod into buying a 16 foot disc that his tractor can't plow. This 12 foot disc would be too much for your tractor in heavy ground.

[FarmboyBill]

Well, since im supposedly giving advice to the uninformed , here goes. The way the disc is set up as U see it, is in a traveling position. IF you had noticed, in the 2nd pic, you would have seen a whole lot of notches on top the disc drawbar that Vs it considerably. Why would I want to haul it around the machinery lot with it Ved??

[FarmboyBill]

The only parts missing on the disc are the 3 3ft end pieces that folded around and pinned in behind.

I got to thinking just now. No one in my family, my dad, Uncle ralph, Milt, or Walt or granddad ended up with a wheel disc.

[Fire-Man]

Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

No one in my family, my dad, Uncle ralph, Milt, or Walt or granddad ended up with a wheel disc.

How would you get your disc to the farm 2 miles down the road/hyway??

[fordy]

Originally Posted by Fire-Man

How would you get your disc to the farm 2 miles down the road/hyway??

.............FBB is gonna disc the assphault ! , lol , fordy

[FarmboyBill]

I never had to go down the road with a disc,

[Brighton]

Do you put some weight on top of it FBB, cause to me that would just bounce around all over the place over a plowed field.

[FarmboyBill]

Ive tried that ONCE. This is sandy soil. Its a heavier disc than a corresponding JD wing disc like dad had. This one here will ball up the ground sometimes as its going too deeply. Pulling it with a corresponding age tractor, keeps it going slow enough that Ive never noticed it bouncing around. I bought it for $75 in 65

[plowhand]

That's my kind of price! I still use a JD jerk rope gang disk..got a 3 point too ....sold my big disk....can disc just as faster with a smaller disc...thinning out stuff, and won't buy much new stuff that won't convert from tractor to mules....never know way times are a gettin

[Nimrod]

I don't mean to criticize, but you may have wrongly encouraged some nimrod into buying a 16 foot disc that his tractor can't plow.

I'm not encouraged.

[vicker]

FBB, I had a set of disks very similar to that one, and realize it is in the travel mode. Mine worked well behind a Jubilee. They weren't much use unless the ground was worked or nice sandy loam, but they worked right well for what they were intended for.
ETA
They made sweet music

[rambler]

My dad was a very frugal, German, pakrat, tightwad farmer.

Nothing went to waste or thrown out.

The day he cut our pull type single disk up for scrap iron, he said he was a happy man. He wouldn't sell it because he didnt want someone else to have the misery. He said it was the most useless thing he ever had on our sticky clay soils.

Mind you, we had 2 pulled no wheels tandom disks, 10 and 12 feet, used them for decades. And he bought a single gang 3 pt 12 foot disk he about wore out.

But the one like your picture, yikes.

Paul

[idigbeets]

AH the luxury of sandy soil !!

[geo in mi]

That's the equivalent of a tandem eight foot disc. BTW, pull it to where??

geo

[FarmboyBill]

Geo, IF ya look to the right of the top pic, youll see closest, a 2 acre field, and below that a part of a 10 acre field.

[FarmboyBill]

Well, I used it up in NE Kans with the wings added and pulled with an F-30 and it did great. Here, occasionally it wants to bog down.

[Harry Chickpea]

Originally Posted by Nimrod

I don't mean to criticize, but you may have wrongly encouraged some nimrod into buying a 16 foot disc that his tractor can't plow.

I'm not encouraged.

^^^
POST OF THE DAY!!!

[big rockpile]

Well I have to admit I have used H to pull the same type Disk here in Missouri, put weight on it. I would Plow with it too.

But I have used the same Tractor to pull Logs out of the timber and load them. I didn't care for it having Tri Front End in the hills and I didn't have enough weight on the front end, loading Logs so I would put my wife on the Front end.

Crazy yes but it was all I had to work with.

big rockpile

[elkhound]

i wish i owned that disc..its better than the one i have...i dont own one...and to poor to afford one.

bill you get 10 plus points in my book for doing with what you have and are able to do with.