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My Discing Is Pizz Poor

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Fergienewbee

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I'm pleased with my plowing--then I get out the disc and make ocean swells out of it. I get a high ridge in the center of every pass. Disc is a 6' 3-pt hitch. Rear gangs seem to hit the ground first.
Back gangs are set aggressively; fronts look similar.

1. Do I shorten/lengthen the top link?

2. Do I need to adjust the back gangs to cut less aggressively?

3. Adjust the front gangs?

4. Forget discing and plant sod corn?

Larry
 
All disks tend to ridge.Shorten the toplink to raise trhe rear.But not so much that the front digs in too much.Try to keep the machone level.You can decrease the angle of the rear(if disk is so 'equiped') as well.If going over multiple times,go at a differing angle each pass,That includes a differing angle the fifst pass after the plow.Differing angles helps to level the surface.FWIW....I NEVER do the same angle when working ground.You will never eliminate ridges/valleys of a disk,but you can minimize them.
 
If you want/need it 'smooth',drag a spike tooth at a different angle.Somewhere 15 and 30 degrees is good.
 
The best thing a disc is good for is cutting sod after plowing. That"s why we use a field cultivator with a tine harrow behind. Lacking a disc, an extra pass with the FC does wonders.
 
AND IF you don't have a spike tooth harrow, ive been told 4 cattle panels chained together and drug over a field has weight enough to do wonders at a good clip.
 
FarmalB;

Do you chain the panels side to side or stack on top of each other? I would think stacked to get the weight.

Larry
 
Ridging means theback gangs are either cutting to deep so you would need to shorten the top link or they have a too agreasive cut angle and need to be straightened but that type I dought cut angle is adjustable or a combination. If the back blades are larger than the front that would agrivate the problem so switching front blades to back would help. A disk that is set correctly will not ridge in the middle. Excess speed will also agrivate the problem.
 
You've already answerd your own question. Level the disk up then play with the angle if you need to, speed also plays an important part, a big ridge in the center says too fast. I've never tried it but it has been said chaining old truck tires behind your disc will make a quick and dirty harrow. Mike
 
my little Altas 300 6ft. disc does a fair job of leveling the ground.

I think the larger (wider) the disc the better job it does of leveling. most of the large disc have smaller blades on the rear gang outside disc.

my disc has 18" blades and the rear outside blades will leave a deep trench, the drag I use will fill the trench, but the notched blades catch on the drag chains, that is a pain.

another option, pull a drag harrow over the field before planting to smooth the ground.

poor boys have poor ways!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you for all your responses. I will try all of them. I may be trying to disc too deep and/or going too fast or both. The rear gangs are as adjusted as the go unless I drill a new hole or two. I might try that also.

I do drag around five tire tied together to smooth the ground and that works pretty good. But I'm going to try the cattle panels also.

Larry
 
Level the disk, needs to be level when it is at working depth. Shorten the top link. This one is an easy fix. ;)

Paul
 
I too have found that my 6' disk tends to ridge the soil some , even when properly adjusted., But I have found the way to minimize it is to not repeat going over the same previous path and to stagger by 1/2 disk width. If one always follows same pattern on same path it will create ridges over time.
 
High ridge in center front is too high. Shorten top link. Also disc at 45 degree angle to last years rows. Next year go straight down the rows, Next year plant 90 degrees off if possible.
 
Farmallb,

I just got finished planting a 3.5 ac field. Disked it N-S then E-W..was still rough. Drug 4 cattle panels as suggested when seeding and it is now quite flat. What a great suggestion! Thanks!
 
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