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04/02/14, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Saskatchewan
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Saw this cute little disc today
I'm not usually interested by small/micro scale stuff but I have to admit I turned my head to look at this 3' disc today!
Look at how tiny it is, it would be perfect for breaking up the vegetable plot behind the yard tractor. Way more manoeuvrable than the 12' disc I'm planning to borrow from my neighbour to use... I could use it to disc up a single row after harvest instead of the whole garden spring/fall. And use my yard tractor instead of my field tractor.
I wonder how many horsepower this would need to pull, as the little JD210 is 10HP and 40 years old, might be a bit much for it. I have no clue about small equipment.
Costs $400 which is a bit much considering a "full size" disc can be acquired at an auction for $500 or less... of course it's brand new though rather than 50 years old, and more of a niche tool for the garden.
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04/02/14, 05:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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yeah, ive seen them too. Seen them with tandem setups. PRICY THO.
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04/02/14, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SW Michigan
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Are they heavy enough to break the ground?
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04/02/14, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: South Carolina
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These are designed to pull with a 4 wheeler---garden/lawn mower. They work good in a garden spot that has been "worked" already. Alot of these hunting guys use them for food plots at their hunting stand.
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04/02/14, 08:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: East-Central Ontario
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Originally Posted by Callieslamb
Are they heavy enough to break the ground?
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No. Toys for people who like to burn gas. Or if you prefer you can weigh them down heavy enough to do the job and hopefully you'll break the disk before you take the tranny out of whatever you're pulling it with.
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04/02/14, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Myself, I would just get a good tiller attachment!!
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04/02/14, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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not for 5 times what that disc cost.
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04/02/14, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Illinois
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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill
not for 5 times what that disc cost.
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Wanna bet?
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04/03/14, 12:04 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Saskatchewan
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This is a tandem setup unless you define them differently from me Bill? The second gang of discs is under the trailer there. I agree this is not going to break ground, it's a tandem disc after all...
I'd like to see what Brighton comes up with for an inexpensive and robust tiller - hopefully something that doesn't require 3pt hitch as I live in a drawbar world here.
What I really need is a 50HP "garden" tractor with 3pt. I have the 210 (10HP) and a DX160 (150HP) and nothing for the in-betweens. I would love to get more utility out of the 210 as it basically mows the grass and harrows the driveway gravel right now. The 210 is really, really good on gas compared to any other tractor, so I don't understand DaleK's comment unless he is implying that the little disc is useless?
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04/03/14, 12:54 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Central WI
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Agri fab makes a nice tow behind tiller for lawn tractors. Has a 5 hp engine. Was running around.1200 last time I looked.
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04/03/14, 06:38 AM
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Micro equipment should be pulled with a micro tractor--of which, there aren't any. A disc that size will have two drawbacks for use in a garden. First, the depth will be only half--at best--the diameter of the bells, less the radius of the bells' axles. You may only get three inches of soil depth worked up. Second, you will probably have to pull it with a tractor that has a wheel tread of more than three feet, so, no matter how you pull it you will always have an exposed wheel track on either side of the tilled surface, or in the middle. In a field condition such as a deer plot, where you don't have to be too fussy, it might scratch up the surface enough to get some grasses put in, but in a garden, I doubt it.
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04/03/14, 01:05 PM
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Looked again. Didn't see the back gang under the G Tractor. Im going to rig up 2 garden discs, but make them like mine, single, 6ft therebouts.
Brighton. u say you can get a tiller attachment for a tractor for the price of that disc??
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04/03/14, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Is that agri-fab tiller better than it looks? It looks fairly flimsy, and their site says it can only till 1-5" and that you have to do several passes. Would have the same issue with leaving tire tracks on each side, too.
This disc has 14" blades so you should be able to get down 6" if you bury it to the axles. I doubt it would sink that deep without some serious weight piled on top though, and it would probably be full throttle for the little yard tractor at that depth.
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04/03/14, 06:13 PM
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A garden tractor would never pull that, if it is weighted down enough to penetrate the soil to a six inch depth. You need a tractor to break up that much soil.
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04/03/14, 06:16 PM
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IF you get on U Tubes and hit on Troy bilt tractors discing. youll se 2 red tractors working a garden. Ones plowing, and ones discing with a tandem disc like in the pic with some home made SOLID concrete blocks on it with eye hole bolts ran through them.
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04/03/14, 06:48 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OH Boy
A garden tractor would never pull that, if it is weighted down enough to penetrate the soil to a six inch depth. You need a tractor to break up that much soil.
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Yep offset disks are the only kind that will reliably go 6" in anything that isn't already worked to death and they typically weigh ~250lbs and up per blade. I'm guessing the implement jack they lift that thing with is probably a 500lber
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04/04/14, 10:30 AM
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Bet my 17HP Kobota engine in my Cub Cadet would do just fine with it--it pulls a full size plow-and disc
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04/04/14, 10:57 AM
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What size is (full size) plow? 12-14-16in??
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04/05/14, 07:25 AM
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It was a antique pull behind plow-and single bottom--don't remember the size--just that it plowed deep
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