NibbanaFarm
Silver Member
Here's a disk harrow I rigged up for my BCS. I put in a new garden and needed something to level out the soil and cut up heavy chunks of sod.
It's built off the small Brinly-Hardy disk harrow with eight disks. I originally just mounted a piece of pipe like Earth Tools to fit to my curved coupler and added a perch to stand on to add the necessary weight to cut through the heavy sod. After riding this back and forth, it wasn't long before I decided it would be a lot nicer to sit my lean vegan arse down and go in style. Just a quick trip to John's Scrap yard for the necessary materials and I put together a pretty nice riding disk harrow.
The tongue wasn't strong enough so I replaced it with 1 x 2 x 1/8 walled box. The seat folds forward so you can use it as a walk behind or stand on the weight tray. I removed the outer disks to fit my row spacing. This also made it cut deeper. But it also made it less stable so you have to be careful going over rough areas.
It did an excellent job. This is some rocky New England soil with some very thick sod. I plowed it and tilled it first. The plow pulled out a lot of big rocks and I dug and rolled about a dozen that were over 100lbs. This left some huge holes. Then I tilled it which helped level it out but the tiller didn't cut up the sod as much as I had hoped. I disked it for about 1/2 hour and I think it's ready to plant now.
It's built off the small Brinly-Hardy disk harrow with eight disks. I originally just mounted a piece of pipe like Earth Tools to fit to my curved coupler and added a perch to stand on to add the necessary weight to cut through the heavy sod. After riding this back and forth, it wasn't long before I decided it would be a lot nicer to sit my lean vegan arse down and go in style. Just a quick trip to John's Scrap yard for the necessary materials and I put together a pretty nice riding disk harrow.
The tongue wasn't strong enough so I replaced it with 1 x 2 x 1/8 walled box. The seat folds forward so you can use it as a walk behind or stand on the weight tray. I removed the outer disks to fit my row spacing. This also made it cut deeper. But it also made it less stable so you have to be careful going over rough areas.
It did an excellent job. This is some rocky New England soil with some very thick sod. I plowed it and tilled it first. The plow pulled out a lot of big rocks and I dug and rolled about a dozen that were over 100lbs. This left some huge holes. Then I tilled it which helped level it out but the tiller didn't cut up the sod as much as I had hoped. I disked it for about 1/2 hour and I think it's ready to plant now.
