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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Chiles" data-source="post: 5141860" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>They are 55HRC and I don’t think they are brittle. I doubt they are made from high carbon steel.</p><p>JD don’t make discs, they source them from several different manufacturers around the globe. There are two numbers on a JD disc and a logo. One number is the part number and the other tells you the manufacturer and steel quality amongst other things. The JD logo is only allowed to be used if it meets the JD standard. When I asked JD to supply 55HRC discs they came from a certain manufacturer direct to me, so I knew who made them. The following year Vaderstad launched their new hard wearing discs called the V55’s which I suspect is hardly a coincidence. Despite Vaderstad’s claims that these are made in Sweden I think they are made in Spain. Several years ago at an Agricultural Show I was standing next to a JD drill when an Indian Gentleman started to ask a JD salesman about the drill. ‘It’s no good asking me mate’ was the salesman’s reply ‘ it’s him you need to talk too.’</p><p>I asked him why he was interested in the drill, it was obvious that he wasn’t a farmer, and it transpired that he was a manufacturer of discs. When I said that they needed to be 55HRC he confirmed what I already knew and that was that there was only one manufacturer in the world that could make discs of that quality. When we finished the conversation he concluded that he needed to improve their manufacturing process so that they could compete on quality rather than having a race with the Chinese to see who could make the cheapest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Chiles, post: 5141860, member: 1233"] They are 55HRC and I don’t think they are brittle. I doubt they are made from high carbon steel. JD don’t make discs, they source them from several different manufacturers around the globe. There are two numbers on a JD disc and a logo. One number is the part number and the other tells you the manufacturer and steel quality amongst other things. The JD logo is only allowed to be used if it meets the JD standard. When I asked JD to supply 55HRC discs they came from a certain manufacturer direct to me, so I knew who made them. The following year Vaderstad launched their new hard wearing discs called the V55’s which I suspect is hardly a coincidence. Despite Vaderstad’s claims that these are made in Sweden I think they are made in Spain. Several years ago at an Agricultural Show I was standing next to a JD drill when an Indian Gentleman started to ask a JD salesman about the drill. ‘It’s no good asking me mate’ was the salesman’s reply ‘ it’s him you need to talk too.’ I asked him why he was interested in the drill, it was obvious that he wasn’t a farmer, and it transpired that he was a manufacturer of discs. When I said that they needed to be 55HRC he confirmed what I already knew and that was that there was only one manufacturer in the world that could make discs of that quality. When we finished the conversation he concluded that he needed to improve their manufacturing process so that they could compete on quality rather than having a race with the Chinese to see who could make the cheapest. [/QUOTE]
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