Disc Harrow center buster

Do you want a chisel tip or sweep? If sweep, how big for a n 8' disc with 22" blades?

Thanks,

Mark

Tried it out late yesterday and it works. Whoopee! Finally happy with the plow.

Thanks for your inputs.

Mark

Well, what this did was to offset the center discs from each other because of the raised center. I was able to reduce the gap by increasing the grazing angle of the booms, but still couldn't get it all.

But they are there. As mentioned to Allan, I studied used plows at a dealer yesterday and half of them had this hootus, or what was left of where one was once mounted. Those without it had the booms offset so that the front edge of the center blades were not even. This allowed ont to cut in front of the other and reduce the gap..... kinda like on a riding lawnmower with 2 blades. They tilt the deck so that the front blace can lap over the path of the rear one.

Thanks,

Mark

How wide is your no-man"s-land? Probably 6-7" or so?

If so, I"d sure run a 6" sweep but only at about 3 to 4" deep. Just enough to knock that ridge outta there; otherwise you"re goona break that shank.

Did you mean 18" foot wide? Seems odd that an 8" disc would have 22" blades on it. :>)

Allan

I had this old disc, and in our clay, I prefer to use the disc as a plow but you never could plow very deep as (you say) the discs were too short. Well I fixed that. Bought some new scalloped discs and added about 800" and boy does this baby plow..... loads up my 100 hp deere on the second pass where the spools are a draggin.

The gap is about 6" as you mentioned. I looked at some harrows at a local dealer and as you say, they were mounted might stout. Gonna go with a 6" sweep I found lying around. I also found a 12" buzzard but I thought that would really break apart. Grin.

Thanks,

Mark

But in my current problem, I have a field that I planted a month ago that is full of weeds cause of the cool spring and my haste to get the crop in. So I want 2 passes at the weeds; especially the ones that have roots like carrots.

Thanks,

Mark