single disc worth buying?

[donais]

I have an opportunity to get this disc. Is it to junky? I have a 4-h tractor group I'm leading and need something to work on, but would like to also use. I've never used a disc, is a single even worth using? thanks jon

 

[donais]

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[Jim Broughton]

Donais: I see it's a three-point set up..I've never ued a single disc with three-point, but a double one for a Ford...and I did'nt like it,tho it was OK on the straightaway, pure hell on corners ! For years I used a single tag along and finally found another single and made a double and for small work, like gardens it's terrific !!
Best of luck !
Jim B.

 

[johns48jdb]

never seen anythng like this. it appears to me to be more of a wheat land disk turning plow like jd use to make, but was on a frame like a regular turning plow. is the frame work set at an angle to the 3 pt hitch.

 

[Tom671]

What make is that disc? Do you know?

 

[donais]

Not sure if its angled I"m going to go look at it today

 

[Fred Hart]

when i was young, dad had a B allis Chambers and the disc he had for the tractor was a single gang 7ft disc. Guess it did fine as we put in crops with it.

biggest problem is moving it from field to field if you have to go down a paved road, you have to put it on a trailer since it was a pull type disc.

go for it, if it the right price, any farm eq is better than no farm eq.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Probably a disc tiller, I take it that it was wider, and those three other discs were originally on it. Most disc tillers had a central gang shaft, and bearing support in the middle, and at each end. Most disc-plows had individual bearings on each disc, like this one. Seems to be a hybrid of the 2. There are also some special use machines that it could be, like a shoulder tiller for roadwork, or a fire plow.

 

[Deere in Ar]

Looks like a disk breaking plow to me, it has a tail wheel to hold it straight. Three point hitch lift pins are off set, it is angled from the hitch. Three more bottoms laying on the ground by it. Don't see any srapers on it.Looks like it could break soil 8 to 10" deep without rubbing bearing covers to much. May need 80 hp or more with all 8 bottoms on it.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Now that I look at it again, it looks more like the shoulder maintainer an old roads dept might have laying around. Is there any angle to the round pipe used to mount the bottoms? (is it mounted parallel to the plane of the 3 point hitch?)

 

[Leroy]

That is not what is called a single disk, a single disk has 1 row of blades but in 2 sections with each section throwing the dirt to the outside. For them you always half lap them so as to not have furrow and ridge clear across the field, with them the outside 1/2 round along the fence never gets the dirt brought back in as nothing to do it with. That is why you see so many fence rows that are mounds of dirt and those came from the time all disks were single as that was all 2 horses could pull. As the rear guang became avaible then the farmers started using 3 horses on them and that got rid of thr furrow-ridge efect. All the blades were on a single shaft axle on all disks.

What you have has individual disk blades mounted on individual shanks like a disk plow but it would be a very light duty one. Most implement of that size have all the blades mounted an a single axle with one bearing hanger on each end and the frame is a lot heavier and the correct terminoligy for them is disk tiller but a lot of people call them one ways. They are a primary tillage unit and not a finnishing unit.

What you have is a unit that some small company made with the idea of it working like a disk tiller, blade spacing about 9", and a loght lighter than a disk plow, blade spacing about 12",.Would have been built in mid to late 50's for the 800 series Ford tractors.

Set up correctly would be a good unit for working gardens instead of a moldboard plow but after taking off all the previous years stalks as would not want to cut thru them. And then follow up with a standard disk or spring tooth harrow and spike tooth harrow.

Would also be a good unit to take to machinery shows as I dought enybody will have ever seen one of those units but mount it on a small Ford or Ferguson or Oliver S55 tractor as that is what it would have been used on. If you ran out of power you could always take a blade or two off and narrow it down.

 

[mhmalcolm]

I just looked at the picture you posted. It appears to be a mounted offset or "plowing" disk. I"ve never seen one like it. I would probably buy it and recondition it for that reason alone. It looks like all the parts are there, and that two of the disk assemblies were probably removed because the tractor that was being used didn"t have enough power to pull it with them all on. I would have to call that a unique find, for the right person. As far as being useable or practical, that would depend on what size tractor you have, and how much ground you want to work. To me, coupled to a 40 to 50 HP tractor, that disk would be good for working up a garden, or a vegetable or deer plot, but not anything much bigger. It was probably designed for small acreage truck farms.

 

[Leroy]

That unit will not need the power that some are thinking, I believe you will find it is a cat. 1 hitch that is only good for up to 50HP at the max and that unit will work good with 35 MAX PTO HP. Ford in the dearborn line made a simiular size unit but with the common axle for the NAA tractor. We pulled a 9 blade disk tiller, drag model easly with a 39 HP John Deere AR and pulled it in 4th gear. That is designed to work at a 6" max depth with 5" more practabily.

 

[donais]

Wow thanks for the help.now what would you givbe for it the guy wants 400. Not sure if its worth it.

 

[donais]

Wow thanks for the help.now what would you givbe for it the guy wants 400. Not sure if its worth it.

 

[NEsota]

In out area, at the time of the transition from horse to tractor power, mid 40s to mid 50s, we called them disk-plows. They were sold for use with "N's". Those had only a couple blades and bearings were on back side of disks.

 

[Dick L]

I think you are correct. The state went by my place with something that looked a lot like that this summer. They followed it with a grader scraping the dirt off the pavement and then followed that with a broom tractor.

 

[donais]

by the way he said its 80 inches wide and 20 inch discs.

 

[Ole Shovel]

Most likely a road shoulder maintainer. Ferguson disc plows have been posted on here before and way different than what you have. Disc plows are bigger disc with heavier shanks spaced farther apart at more angle. Same on a one-way disc tiller with common axle set at more angle. Yours looks to be made to throw more dirt to the side not just throw out weeds turning the soil over.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Look at the angle- its not steep enough to be a plow, its a shoulder maintainer for township roads, what it does is to pull the gravel back in toward the road, prior to regrading the roads. There is a company out there still making these, I just can't find the picture right now. It might be worth that $, because the new ones are pretty expensive, but its not a plow, IMO. All disc-plows and one-way tillers need a tail wheel, or they kick out of the furrow from the previous pass.

 

[GordoSD]

For 600 you can buy a JD AW 15 Tandem disc.

Gordo

 

[Fred Hart]

Ferguson P-BO-20 Disc Tiller Plow

Picture of it on this manual:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Ferguson-P-BO-20-Disc-Tiller-Plow-Operators-Manual_W0QQitemZ370218722466QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Books_Manuals?hash=item5632c164a2

and yes i would buy it if i has the spare change as it is a odd piece of eq.

 

[Sid]

Seems odd that they'd design an implement that would have to be driven on the wrong side of the road

 

[Farmallb]

That looks like a 5 bottom disc plow. I dont know what a 4H tractor is, but I think I would take a pretty good tractor to pull it deep enough to be effective

 

[Eugene K]

Where is this piece of equipment located?