Need Advice on a Disk

Here is my situation: I am starting a hobby farm. I will have about 2 acres in garden. The land has been farmed for over 100 years. There are no trees or stumps in or near the area I will be working. The soil is sandy loam and silt loam about 18 inches deep before the clay layer begins. I have a Ford 860 tractor. Most of the ground has been in an Orchard grass and clover mixture for the last four years. I plowed a half-acre plot for an initial garden this year and didn�t have any rocks and very few stones.

I�ve read several posts advising not to waste money on cheap light weight disks that will be destroyed in a few years. That advice seems to make sense for a larger (like 40 acre) spread. I just not sure it apples to my situation. I�ve looked at the light and heavier 6 ft disks at TSC. I can�t imagine a situation were my tractor would damage the lighter 6 ft disk made of angle iron. However, I don�t have any experience with using a disk. So my question for youall is, from your experience, what kind of situations could I get into with my 34 horsepower tractor in clean silt/sandy loam that would cause me to damage the lighter 6 ft disk? Will the lighter model be OK for my small two acre area or do I need the much heavier job? I �m willing to spend the extra $300 for the heavier disk if I need to. I don�t know enough to make a good decision and would appreciate any advice/experience you can offer.

Thanks in advance

Dale-SWMI

You can get the disk with sealed bearings or greasable bearings.

A good value for the money, has notch blades front and back and easy adjust gang angle.

Worth a look see if you can find one.

one in picture is a 6 ft.
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I also bought a Tufline 6ft disk one time for my TO-35 tractor, best small disk made.

However, they are very heavy, I could pull it find, but it was too heavy when I picked it up for my small tractor. Sold it to a guy with a 960 Ford tricycle front end tractor and it worked great for him.

Good luck,

Larry in Michigan