Disk plow questions

[Up North Louie]

Does anybody have experience using what I've seen referred to as a disk plow? The pictures I have seen look like a regular moldboard plow frame, but instead there are two [what I've seen, at least] big ol' disks mounted at a very aggressive angle where the moldboard arrangements would be.

The reason I ask is because our land is all clay and rock, rock and clay... If you try to break with a moldboard plow that doesn't have a trip/reset capability, you get hung up on the unseen rock and drag the bottom out of your tractor.

What we've been doing is to use a 15 tine spring tooth quack drag to tear things up, then disk and disk and disk. You have to go over it so many times that you might as well buy whatever you wanted to plant because fuel prices are what they are.

Would one of these disk plows give me a decent roll? I would cut with a disk, use the plow, and disk again to finish. And do it without as much risk to the machinery...

Thanks guys,

Don

 

[Texasmark]

I had a retired neighbor that had one and he had a 2 bottom hooked to an early A or B rowcrop. That is where he spent most of his time; plowing with that thing...gave him something to do.

We have clay here too and have to use a rolling disc. It did the job and with only 2 discs, as compared to some of the 16' one way's that some folks used, it was easy for the lower hp tractor to handle.

Did a stellar job and yes it rolled the sod over.

Mark

 

[Jimmy King]

Louie, I live in Southwest Missouri where we have a lot of flint rock and limestone. I had never seen a bottom plow around here until the auto resets came out. We had an H Farmall and a Super A used a 2 disc and a 3 disc. They will roll the rocks around and when you hit a solid one will roll around it. I have hit limestone rocks that turned the H around sideways in the furrow. I have never used one, people tell me a bottom plow will get more dirt in the rocks I don"t know. I quit useing a plow and went to an offset years ago then a few years later I went to a chisel plow with twisted shovels.

 

[Up North Louie]

I have been using that quack drag in the same manner as a chisel, you just need to make a lot more passes. If I wanted to use an actual chisel plow, I'd need a tractor with a lot more goobers than 560 I have. I guess that's why I'm curious about these disk jobs-- trying to get the most economy and utility out of that which I already have.

If a disk plow rolls off rocks, that's what I would like to get into. I will always be stuck picking rock, calling in a back hoe or dozer for the big ones, but not having to get heavy equipment in on an annual basis would be a huge improvement, if I can actually turn [most] of the ground and get decent cultivation out of it.

d

 

[Jimmy King]

Louie, I will assume your 560 has fast hitch?? If you could find one Taylerway made a disc plow that would plow cememt I have been told by people that had them. I have a 3 disc fast hitch plow (IHC) that has a beam long enought to hang the 4th one on. I still use it once in a while to plow up a place to load some dirt for the yard. I had a Taylerway 4 disc one time that I never did use it also was a fast hitch it needed scrapers which are very importain in throwing the dirt so it will level. If your 560 is not fast hitch I would think you could adept a HM150 to mount on it they would only be a 3 disc but were a very good plow.

 

[Up North Louie]

Yep, I have a fast hitch. I also have a fast hitch 2 bottom. Could that be "converted" ?

What could a guy expect to pay for a used 3 bottom you mentioned?

I realize location matters, along with so many other variables...

d

 

[Jimmy King]

I don't think it would be easy to convert the disc plows use about a 4 by 6 steel beam from hitch to tail wheel each section bolts to the beam with 4 3/4 inch bolts. I don't know what it would cost now I have head fast hitch imp. sell pretty high now. A few years ago $ 100 to 150 would have bought one.

 

[wildman from mo]

Louie ,50 years ago there were a few disc plows around here &were used on freshly cleared river bottom. They would roll around those stumps until they were getting rotten then they would plow them out.A 560 would pull a 3 bottom moldboard plow in tuff going so it should handle a 4 or 5 blade disc plow. Good luck Gene

 

[Up North Louie]

I'll be on the watch for an affordable one, then. With any kind of luck, I can find one that'll go 3 point-- quick hitch would be too much to wish for,I'm guessing.

Thanks,

d

 

[JoshuaGA]

If you are good with a welder and a torch, I would try making one. Any good Ag supply house should be able to supply anything you could need.

JoshuaGA

 

[Backer Bill]

Louie, I've used em, they work, sometimes you can find one on ebay