Depending on the size, you can cover quite a bit of ground in a short amount of time with one.Use a tractor that has enough horsepower to pull the disc harrow. Several functions may not work. To get an x you'd be working in a square field. This is very popular nowadays as it gives a very smooth soil. Use a grease gun to insert grease into the grease zerks. Come back and finish the headlands after you've worked your way to the middle. Leave a headland, not an x. We use data about you for a number of purposes explained in the links below.
This type of harrows can be worked upon in an offset position i.e. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.When I break up sod with our Crustbuster offset, I know its going to take multiple passes so I usually cut one direction working my way across the field. The rotary blades of the disc break up clods, while the tines of the harrow follow behind to smooth the soil to make an even seed bed. I guess then the headlands would be an X shape through the field?What I have been doing is just lifting it all the way up and turning a loop to get going back straight again. If you drive too fast, the disc harrow leaves a ridge down the center of its path. If you're having to make sharp turns on the ends, pick it up but go round and round. Heavy-Offset 790 All-Purpose heavy offset disk harrow, with 10.5 - 12 inch blade spacing and 28 - 32 inch blades, comes as an all-urpose offset or plowing disk to perform a wide array of soil-conditioning tasks. I'm not sure I completely follow you. If clods still exist, you can go over the field again traveling in a different direction.Lubricate the disc harrow when you finish for the day.
It's especially important to use disc harrows when the soil is not breaking up well with other tillage methods. What I have been doing is just lifting it all the way up and turning a loop to get going back straight again. Or are you saying not to go round and round?You can still go round and round but have headlands. It helps but still ridges, especially if you cut it deep.2nd pass this fall in 260 bu corn stalks cut with a chopping headHow many feet wide is that one? Going in a clockwise direction like I was instructed you can't turn with it in the ground.....it will either dig in and make a mess or the tractor will lose traction trying to turn with it in the ground.Either lift it out of the ground just enough for it to not gouge or lift it the whole way and do your headlands last. A single change in hitch makes the harrow to move either to the left or right side of the tractor.
Put the tractor in the gear recommended by the owner's manual of your model.
I've always heard Wishek disks are the cats meow. Then on the second pass I cut it at an angle to my first pass. Cover the entire field with several passes of the disc harrow. Clean any debris off the disc harrow before you put it away.Install scrapers on the disc blades if mud and debris aren’t falling off them as they operate.Read and follow all warning signs on the disc harrow.Never allow someone to stand between the disc harrow and the tractor as you align the two for hitching.Denise Brown is an education professional who wanted to try something different. They'll be your headland.We use cookies to improve your experience on this website and so that ads you see online can be tailored to your online browsing interests. Raise the disc harrow at the end of the row to make it easier to turn.Cover the entire field with several passes of the disc harrow. Or are you saying not to go round and round?I go round and round, no headlands, but I do go back and work my corners lightly.Folks around here have a smaller disc on the rear outside row so it doesn't cut as deep....That's how the disks are on our back gang.