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Re: Towing a disc.
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Posted by RodInNS on May 23, 2006 at 19:24:23 from (142.177.97.163):
In Reply to: Towing a disc. posted by jhill on May 23, 2006 at 04:21:48:
Generally most old style discs tow poorly. The main reason is that they are almost perfectly balanced over their own wheels, and have short hitch which keep them too close to the tractor. If you change the balance point so that there is weight on the tounge, and keep the hitch tight, they tow well. The problem is that you've got to build a hitch to do that.... Glad the come-a-long worked out for you. The last time I pulled the hitch off my old 570 Pittsburg, I loaded the orange devil on the hay wagon and hauled it home, cut the remnants of the old hitch off, and built a new flotation hitch. Now it tows properly at any speed, and actually works properly in the field as the disc can follow the field rather than the tractor wheels through holes. It's got a lot more give to jump over stones too.... That disc was so bad to tow that it would wag a 12000# tractor at 15 mph. This actually made a disc out of it, rather than a piece of scrap, which is what it was. Rod
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