Pulling a 3 point disk harrow.

I have a 6 ft 3PH disc seeded over 7-800 lawns with it, lift it on the turns then go back and disc your turnrows and btw disc blades do break , hit a rock or something solid tha was my day off job replace the broken blades..The guys I help on the farm have 36 ft discs and we also pick them up on the ends of the row....

Like I said, Ive never broke one. Never disced on rock much

remarkable,,,,but we have heavy soils in my area

This “disk breaking” brings up another question… I cleared a small area with a chainsaw that was overgrown with brush and saplings. It’s now covered with flush cut stumps from 1-4” diameter and lots of roots right below the surface. Can that be disked? Will the disk jump over the stumps, cut up the stumps or maybe the stumps will break the disk? I could see a disk cut into a stump but then bind on the way out on the curved disk.

My disk is a 6’ 3ph king kutter. The front gangs are serrated disk and the back gangs are round. I don’t know but I figured the serrated disk were for breaking branches. If all 4 gangs were serrated the disk would be more suited for stumps and rocks… right?

Sandy here in Okla. Bruce, I wouldnt do it. Them pieces that are serreted are kinda weak in strength by their individual selves. If a piece gets hung on a part of a tree that binds it, It could break it off.

Put some weight on the disc, you might have to go over it several times.. When you cut off those stumps make sure they are cut flat, not leave a pointed end in the air to puncture a tractor tire..and make sure they are not much bigger than 2 or 3 inches across....

Just remember that more weight means more likelyhood of breaking discs. Specially serretted ones. I carry 2 railroad ties on mine. BUT I DONT DISC STUMPS, OR ROCKS

After brushing out hazelwood and left with the stumpage. I pulled a springtooth over and pulled out the stumps and/or popped them out with my loader. Then I disked.

Nope - doesn't work that way. Serrated blades penetrate the ground deeper, but are more fragile. Full disks don't go as deep, but are sturdier.

A 4 inch stump of hardwoods in my hard clay soil would be a real challenge for a disk, I'd be driving real slow & hope for the best. Because I have one, I'd use a spring loaded (protected) chisel plow. It would rip things up to the surface. One needs to be real careful and slow tho.

A disk pushes things down covers them up.

Your disk will work to loosen up the soil, and will cut a few small stumps, but go slow and careful - the bigger stumps will be immovable objects to it, the disk will need to give. Weight on the disk will make it cut better, but I would not srart that way - it's a good way to wreck the disk right off the bat in these conditions.

--->Paul

There aren't any dumb questions, but here's a lot of hifalutin' words on the subject of broken bells that y'all are forgettin' about: Metal fatigue.......stuff does wear out, you know.... http://www.materialsengineer.com/CA-fatigue.htm

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