Well, as for conditions, not many cornstalks in Alaska, mostly will be used behind the plow, though several others I know just disc to break up the sod on hay ground every 4-5 years, and never plow, that would probably be harder on the rig than broken ground. Mostly windblown glacial silt around here, some clay, but when the silt gets abit too damp it gets ugly.
I would not consider the JD 215 to be a very heavy disc, but certainly a lot more than the IH 37, but I am certainly still learning. Biggest reason I am tossing these questions around is because a lot of the equipment in interior Alaska where I am trying to get a start is either old, small equipment from the homesteader days of the 40`s and 50`s, and hence way to small for our 4010 or 4020, or equipment that was brought in when our state tried its ill-fated "barley project" of tens of thousands of state cleared, state subsidized grain fields in the 80`s, and most of that stuff is way to big for our tractors.
So I am stuck trying to find tillage equipment and other implements (we trucked all the major haying equipment from the states) sized for tracors that are kind of oddballs around here, but I also don`t want to buy a disc that will work my poor tractor to death.
Josh