Moving a 8 foot disc

I need to move a 8 foot disc about 1 mile to my place. It's obviously very heavy, and I really have no idea how to move it. I could try to rent a trailer but that seems like a lot of money to move it a mile. Could I put rubber on some of the discs and pull it home or something?
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If you access to alot of pallets I would drag it out then onto some pallets, drag the pallets till they wear out and put more under it. If on dirt or grass you may not have to swap em. If gravel or pavement better have several. And anything of the sort will work. Old tin, board sled, several car hoods, etc. Bit of a redneck way to do it but it works.
 
You might be able to straighten the angle of the gangs into a transport position so you can pull it without the blades digging in. Is there some kind of a locking mechanism that you can release to let the gangs go straight when you back up or go forward?
 
If you have a front end loader chain it to the loader and pick it up. A strong boom pole could be used on the 3 point hitch. Tie a couple of ways back to the tractor minimizing swaying.
 
When I zoomed in on the picture I saw a vertical pin on the front of the tongue that you can pull up. There might be a lever you can pull with a rope from the tractor seat to lift the pin. Then back up and the front and presumably the rear gang will straighten out. You might have to try this on gravel or looser soil for it to work.
 
Really hard to tell what you have there and how to go about moving it. Do you have a tractor with a 3 point and a boom pole?? If you have that and it is big enough that you can lift it and haul it that way. Or lift it up and set something like a mobile home axle under it and chain it on tight etc.
 
Obviously very heavy, NOT, that is one of the lightest disks made other than the horse drawn disks. And it easly seperates into front and rear half. Do you have a tractor with a 3 point hitch, if you do put a 3 point hitch boom on and using a couple of chains lift it and go. My 2N Ford I could do that with. Now depending on what your road is like, gravel or a wide berm just grease and hook on and go after straightening gangs. Older blacktop doing that would not hurt pavement. Each section would fit easy in bed of pickup. My Dakota would haul it that way. I think you are under 800# for the complete unit.
 
Straighten the angle of the gangs ( transport mode) hook up behind the tractor and drag it home slowly. Way back when, we moved an 8 ft JD and and 8 ft IH between farms 1-2 miles apart.
 
Just pull it out of the brush with something, tractor or truck, and then straighten the gangs out (probably have to pull/hold a lever and drive forward or backward with it). Get it so the discs are as straight as possible, and pull it down the road as others have said! I move a 10 foot JD about 3 miles up and down a road once a year. All gravel, does just fine, then I do it on about 1/2 mile of pavement, doesn't even leave a scratch! ;) You're good to go.
 
I have a little john Deere disk exactly like that hook up to er pull that lever forwards and drag the disc forwards and the gangs will go straight you could drag it down fresh blacktop and not leave a scratch as long as the gangs are straight . That disc will cut good but it takes some pretty good weight added to do it
 
I have had a couple old JD disk like that. The front and rear sections will come apart pretty easy. I hauled one home from an auction in the back of my cattle trailer.
Only one mile though I'd hook up and pull it home slowly. Just make sure its set so its not cutting. We use to pull them down the road back in the day.
 
Yep, when I was cutting out the trees and much to my surprise the lever still works. I figured that lever would do something like that just wasn't sure. When I pulled
the rope it kinda fell apart in my hands. If not, there's a boom pole sitting next to it and both the diesel tractors have loaders.
 
What you have there is a JD "JBA" disc. Just pull lever on front when pulling and it will straighten out for transport or use your 3pt boom. I have a couple original ole op. manuals for them if you are interested. $ 20 to your door. They really do good job with 100# sand bag on each gang. The one I have here had the optional hydraulic angle control bracketry on it so one could change angle while discing when one hit soft/sandy ground. Nice little discs. They come apart right at that little ball joint at the center in front of the front gang. I've also got a full set of mud scrapers for one if you need. Problem is, shipping won't be cheap depending on where you live.
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just a heads up, those rusty disk blades are a lot sharper than you think. they will make short work of a tractor tire, and can really do a job on skin. (speaking from experience) get a pair of gauntlet style welding gloves when you dig er out of the trees.
 

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