Posted by Hugh MacKay on June 14, 2009 at 02:08:15 from (216.208.58.190):
In Reply to: Re: How much disc... posted by Dave H (MI) on June 13, 2009 at 19:38:51:
Dave: I've heard unkind words about older Deere disks. Never had one myself, but some of that came from a guy that would buy a Deere cofin if they made such a thing.
I never liked the new disks I saw around the IH dealers in the 60s and 70s. Found out later he was ordering all his new disks with light gauge blades. Same with other options, light as possible.
The disks I liked from that era were Oliver or Cockshutt, (same disk) but much heavier than I saw at IH. I remember going through a Oliver spec sheet, and they had light options, but that dealer was bringing everything in heavy. I suspect one can experience that with most any make, depending on what dealers in a given area sold years ago.
My first wheel controlled disk, and my dad bought this one in 56, was a 28 blade Cockshutt with 16" blades. It could make the Farmall 300 sweat. I remember disking a slight hill, roughly 1,000' and 20' higher at one end than the other. 300 would make 3rd, high on TA going down hill, but coming back up it was low on TA. I bought a new 44 blade Oliver, 20" blades, for use behind 560 and 656. For the most part they handled it well, except if cutting deep with single wheels. Traction was the short coming, and duals cured that.
The reason I suggested count the blades, disk were sold with 3 basic options that affected power requirments greatly, You could get 7" spacing, 9" spacing or a mix of the two, like 7" front 9" back. Bear in mind most of those 9" spacing were sold for heay clay land. Not likely too many of them in Michigan.
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