8 ft Disc.

[Farmall-H]

I have aquired a 8ft JD disc. No hydraulics, so I have to find a way to transport it. Has anyone found a way to put hydraulics on one? Also what have you guys found to be the easiest way to haul a disc without wheels?

All comments appreciated.

Thanks alot. -Cole

 

[rrlund]

They were just made so you pull the rope,trip the latch and straighten them out. Pull them on the blades then,with them straight so they aren't cutting in. Only other way is to buy a different disc. A transport disc,thus the name,transport disc.

 

[Anonymous-0]

If it is a KBB disk they made a wheel carrier attachment later on. I've got one but really I wouldn't recommend it. The way it attaches to the disk it adds alot of weight to the center blades. The disk ends up cutting deeper in the center and you end up cutting a subtle "v" grove down the field. Then your field ends up like a washboard and pounds you driving across it.

 

[John Harmon]

Back in the early 1960's when I started farming I had a IHC 10' drag disc[w/o wheels] and I transported it with a 8'by12' flat bed trailer which tilteed and had a wench mounted on the front.Wasn't easy and handy but got the job done.wench the disc on until it just tilted the bed down and then use Arm power to bring the bed down and insert a bolt in the hole of the bed to frame hold down. good thing I was young,strong and stupid. The second year of farming I bought a 12' AC wheel disc with a hyd.cyl to pull behind my wd45 ,ended up buying a pair of duals so the wd could pull that big disc. Didn't set any records but the wd pulled that disc fairly well.Eventually got a D17 and it pulled that disc very well.

 

[1950ish]

I have a "horse-drawn" disc also---except modified to have a ball hitch. Also, I fabricated a wheel system whereby I can install two individual wheels--one on each side--by simply "rolling" each wheel under the disc by means of a detachable lever(3/4" square tubular steel). And it stays in place until you roll it back out. Have transported the disc for miles. The wheel mechanism supports the hub of the disc. The pnuematic tires are about 16" in diameter. [Plugger system, but it works!]

 

[JD Seller]

When I started farming I could not afford a wheel disk. I had a ten foot International drag disk. I made a simple boom pole type of lift for it. you unhooked the disk and drove around and backed up to the back of the disk. You then let the lift pole down. The pole was as long as the disk was deep. I had single chain for the hitch on the very end of the pole. Then back about three feet I attached two more chains that I hooked to the front disk gangs in the middle of each gang, right around the spools. Then just behind the three point hitch there where two more chains to lift the back gang. Once you had the chains all hooked you lifted the three point hitch and you where ready to go. When you got to the nest place to disk you just let it down, unhooked the chains, raised the three point and drove around front and hooked up to the hitch and away you went.

 

[Leroy]

That KBA disk to me was one of the best disks ever made, had both the drag type and wheel carried type and the wheel type made a perfectly level seedbed and for the drag types we had a tilt bed trailer 7 X 12' with a hand crank winch on it and the disk was easy loaded. Moved then along with cultipacker and spring tooth harrow that way for many a mile for many a year.

 

[RandyB(MI)]

How hard would it be to brace and bracket on a couple heavy crank type trailer jacks with a hub and auto tire/wheel on ea one?? Two of the right type would lift it pretty easy.

 

[Leroy]

You could do that on the frame to lift the frame BUT then you would still have a toung problem as the toung turns side to side and raises and lowers the same as a 4 wheel wagon ao you would have to build a false toung and fasten it over the frame to move the disk and have it carry the disk toung and remove any parts once you get to the field and replace when you are ready to leave field. THE SIMPLEAST AND EASIEST WAY IS JUST GET A TRAILER, does not have to be heavy, just no sides and over the tires.

 

[JD Seller]

My uncle had a KBA disk. It was the ridging tool from he!!. It took me years to level the fields after he passed away.

 

[Leroy]

He just did not know how to adjust it then, properly adjusted they will not ridge.