Disc Harrow...Use stabilizers??

Eman

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Pulling a disc harrow are you using the stabilizers? Found a decent harrow at a decent price and need to work good sized area that's been cleared so I can sow grass.
 
I disagree with not using them.
I want the disc to NOT flop around when I pick it up to turn.
That is a lot of weight jerking on the pins that hold the lift arms under the axle.
Richard in NW SC
 
It's a 3 point mount 4 gangs of 5 discs.
I appreciate the responses just wondering what is the rule or reason for when you use the stabilizers? I've always tried to use them with every implement but I remember some saying not to use tem all of the time.
 
I use them on all 3 pt equipment.
Been using them all my life, which is now a long time.
Especially on heavy stuff for the reason I said below in my post.
Richard
 
No, the disk need to move around a bit, just take it easy when lifting and turning and you will be fine.
 
No.
Stay bars make it so you have one Long,
contiguous piece of machinery with no
flex between the tractor and implement.

I don't use them on anything.
 

Growing up we had one 8-N on a 80 acre dairy farm. Dad did not have a set of stabilizer bars. As a kid I did not know they existed.

To your question: For a disc, you could use stabilizer bar/bars if you lift the disc to make a turn. If you make sweeping turns you do not use stabilizers. We always disc using the "two in one method" which allows for sweeping turns. I believe the method is described in the 8-n owners manual.

For me today; I use a stabilizer bar with the bush hog, back blade and the 3 pt mounted weed sprayer. The plow no stabilizer.
 
Its a good question I have popped a upper lift arm transporting a disc with out stabilizers .. I went around a ditch no more than a ft deep I missed judged it a wheel dropped in the ditch and POP : (...

Normally I don't use them on a disc I can see both ways of thought...
 
growing up on the farm we/dad used bars on everything but a plow. young people have a tendency to want to go too fast to do anything. getting at the end of the field and picking up the disc to make a turn....well you get my drift.
 
Been using a 3 point disk for over 45 years. Have always used stabilizer bars because it is fairly heavy and the bars will control the side to side flopping when disc is up. Be careful not to turn much while discing because it will bend the bar. The disc can tend to be pretty heavy for an N series. No problem on flat ground but an issue with hills. Front weights will take care of this.
 
Never, the disc needs to have some side to side movement especially when working a radius or turning a corner.
 
(quoted from post at 11:42:54 05/29/20) As someone else said, I use stabilizers on
everything but the plow.

Same here. The stabilizers allow the disc to move "a little," which is "enough."

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es
 
Well I guess it's not something that's written in stone. I guess I'll try it both ways and see how it works out.
Any suggestions on setting or changing the angles of the gangs? The disc I have is an Independent, looks something like the pic Ed S posted.
 

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