Recommend a Disc Harrow

[ForkieX30]

I've got a 7ft Fergie(?) disc that's a bit too heavy for my 40hp so I'm hoping to swap it for a trailed version. Anyone know a particular make and model that would suit?

 

[Hesstondriver]

Coopers did an 8’ version
There’s the Ransome or parmiter options too

 

[Exfarmer]

8 ft discs are going to be more than plenty for 40hp even the Coopers , Ransomes and Parmiter heavier too from memory. I think you will really strruggle to find anything

 

[ForkieX30]

Yeah, I'd like a 6ft really as I'd be using it instead of the plough. The 7 pulls okay though, it's just a bit too much to lift for turning around easily. Could do with a bigger tractor I suppose.

 

[Nearly]

Coopers did an 8’ version
There’s the Ransome or parmiter options too

There were blue mounted ones that had a drawbar in the headstock that dropped down to drag them around the field.

 

[ForkieX30]

Thanks for the names guys. Plenty of big stuff available online but I can't find anything small enough so far.

@Nearly has given me an idea though, perhaps the lad down the road could make some kind of drawbar to fit on the hitch. But I just wonder if it would be too high and drag the rear set out of the ground?

 

[Exfarmer]

Thanks for the names guys. Plenty of big stuff available online but I can't find anything small enough so far.

@Nearly has given me an idea though, perhaps the lad down the road could make some kind of drawbar to fit on the hitch. But I just wonder if it would be too high and drag the rear set out of the ground?

you could not make a weight to go on the front of your tractor?

 

[Nearly]

Thanks for the names guys. Plenty of big stuff available online but I can't find anything small enough so far.

@Nearly has given me an idea though, perhaps the lad down the road could make some kind of drawbar to fit on the hitch. But I just wonder if it would be too high and drag the rear set out of the ground?

Drag discs on a bar through the link arms and raise or lower them.

 

[Exfarmer]

Drag discs on a bar through the link arms and raise or lower them.

but do not raise it too high as you may flip your tractor over if the discs hit an obstruction. If you do not have a safety cab this can and does cause death!

 

[ForkieX30]

Safety cab? That's one of those things posh farmers have isn't it? Like batteries and power steering and brakes.

@Nearly do you mean a 9 hole drawbar through the lower link arms? I've got one around here somewhere, that might work, thanks.

 

[Exfarmer]

Safety cab? That's one of those things posh farmers have isn't it? Like batteries and power steering and brakes.

@Nearly do you mean a 9 hole drawbar through the lower link arms? I've got one around here somewhere, that might work, thanks.

For god’s sake take care then if you pull from a linkage drawbar, I knew a man who was killed doing just that, thought he was safe wityh his foot on the clutch, but it was muddy and his foot slipped off
What tractor is it?

 

[ForkieX30]

International 434 with 414 engine.

 

[Exfarmer]

Quite easy to fix a simple weight on the front then 2 large chunks of angle iron drilled to fit the chassis channels. Then make a simple box on trhe front. For some years we had an old anvil on the front to balance the rear

 

[David.]

Parmiter has the headstock that turns into a drawbar.
But they needed a 4000 which was about 60hp, if you wanted them in the ground.
And a lump of concrete on top of them.

 

[Deere 6430]

Have a look at the York auction that finishes this week coming two sets of small discs in there that might suit?

 

[bravheart]

Imo. any discs you can lift with that tractor won't be heavy enough to cut into hard stumbles. Get one of those straight leg ferguson grubbers instead. The ones with the twin coil springs. Will do a better job of ripping up stumbles and your tractor will be able to lift it.

 

[ForkieX30]

^^^Tines are no use in this clay, they just pull up clods the size of 40 gallon drums. Last time my neighbour used a ripper it took him 14 passes to break it down.

I think I'll stick with a drawbar on my current disc but I might not bother at all. My neighbour suggested rolling when still fairly wet and just spraying off the weeds, reckons the grass will come back on it's own. I might do that, haven't decided yet.