Need to buy a disc

[Beavis]

Anyone have a Tractor Supply 6.5 foot disc harrow? If so is it a good unit?
I need to buy a disc and am considering picking up one of the square tube frame models from TSC(link below).

CountyLine Heavy-Duty Disc Harrow - 2128278 | Tractor Supply Company


Warhammer

I've had mine for about 2.5 years now; it is actually a King Kutter, but looks identical. I like it and would recommend it. Paid about $750 for mine.

 

[wingbone]

If the cost is a factor and one considers buying used, I know I see a lot of different 3pt and pull type discs for sale for decent prices. I see very few tillers for sale used and most of those are five footers and the price is usually close to what a new one costs. Of course, I guess it could be argued that you don't see many used tillers for sale because people like them and don't get rid of them.

 

[campwildwood]

I recently purchased the County Line Angle Disc Harrow #2128260 and I'm very pleased with it. I went with the lighter model since I use the disc after I plow, rather than use it on virgin soil.

 

[pitt_md]

Depends on the tiller, depends on the disk, depends on what you have to pull either one. A high horsepower compact will perform better with a tiller harnessing the pto power. You can get 16' wide tillers with tilling depths of about 12 inches.

You may know better than me but I am not aware of a compact tractor that can sport a 16' tiller. Is that a typo?

 

[pitt_md]

Steve, how many acres would you say that you can till before having to replace the tines, the u joints, then the tines again, maybe a gear box etc?

I can't answer your question directly but i can tell you that after tilling 10 acres +- my Befco tiller does not need anything replaced. For those that do not know 10 acres is a heck of a lot to till. Maybe i should qualify my statement by adding that all but a couple acres was plowed first.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I can't answer your question directly but i can tell you that after tilling 10 acres +- my Befco tiller does not need anything replaced. For those that do not know 10 acres is a heck of a lot to till. Maybe i should qualify my statement by adding that all but a couple acres was plowed first.

I would hope not, but how many acres can they till before it needs repair? I know that I have less than $2000 in my used 8' offset rebuilt JD disk and will be able to disk thousands of acres before I have to do anything else to them but grease the bearings. :thumbsup: Can anyone with any tiller honestly say the same?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I would hate to till 10 acres. I would also hate using a disc harrow to "till" up 10 acres to the depth and fineness of a tiller. But if I just needed to scratch it up enough to plant some "jig" grass, I use the disc after 1st spraying roundup.

Hope you got a bunch of time to spare.

 

[rootytoot]

Along the lines of this discussion, does anyone have a rule of thumb for how many horsepower required to pull each foot of disc width? I have a Ford 1920, with 31 horsepower available. I'm guessing that a five footer is probably all that I can figure on pulling.

Kurt

 

[MtnViewRanch]

There are to many variables to be able to say with any accuracy at all. I think that type of disk, (tandem or offset) and weight per disk blade would be a better gauge, but I don't think that anyone has ever come up with a rule of thumb for this. Yes you could probably pull a 5 footer, but with how big of disk blades. I believe that you can get a disk that size with 18", 20", 22" and 24" disk blades. And then how thick are the blades, the heavier blades are about twice as thick as the thinner ones, and with heavier blades usually comes a heavier frame work. Do you want a tandem disk or an offset disk? How much does your tractor weigh, what type of tires do you have, R1s, R4s?

I think if you give your detailed tractor info and type of disk that you want, then maybe someone can tell you what has worked for them.

Sorry that I am unable to help you out. :confused3:

 

[warhammer]

I ended up going with a Hay King 2020 3 point disc.
It is manufactured locally in Central Texas. At about 900 pounds it weighs more than the Leinbach and TSC Discs I was looking at. It has the option of adding scrapers which is something I like given the clay soil on my farm.
Pics below. I guess I should have taken some snaps before it got dirty. Maybe next time. ;o}

They look ok. Have you looked at any others?