richie Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 HI there lads, I was going past this engineer works and seen this, well I think you would call it a disc plough. I have not seen anything like it before Ia'm not to sure if it is a conversion or been built from the factory. It has no name on it and it doesn't look as if it has been used very much just looking at the disc's they are hardly worn. It's in a bit of a state but some new tyres and a splash of paint who knows. Have any of you's lot seen one of these before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie Posted December 4, 2005 Author Share Posted December 4, 2005 Another one from the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fendt pwr Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 They use them in aussie I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie Posted December 4, 2005 Author Share Posted December 4, 2005 Yep I live in Oz in Perth on the west side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fendt pwr Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Arh ok mate,sorry did'nt look at your profile. I have seen the odd one of them here in NZ but they never took off here.If I remember right they were used to work rough peat land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fendt pwr Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Was talking to the dad tonight and he said that he has used a 8 disc disc plough with a davie brown tractor on grandads farm many years ago when they were brakeing in a rough paddock. Was a right pain in the bum to use he said,very slow and clumbersome and did'nt cover much of the trash over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest quangova Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Back in the Early 90's there was a push on using disc ploughs in the UK, a farm i worked for bought one... and it was useless.. as said above didn't bury trash and on heavy clay soil left great big soil boulders and if they dried out it took hell an all to break them down, it got used for about a week and then spent the next year in the shed before being traded in for a SIMBA disc & rolls set-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 any body ever seen the four disc Volac disc plough from the 90's? i used to use one on the farm i worked on when i first left school, bit of a heavy beast at 1900kg, left alot of trash on the top too, but he swore by it! When Dowdeswell bought Volac they soon dumped it from the range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenryk Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I think disc ploughs were used extensively in Africa. I seem to remember a picture of a trial version in one of the tractor mags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest quangova Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I think disc ploughs were used extensively in Africa.? I seem to remember a picture of a trial version in one of the tractor mags. Yep Africa, the Middle east and Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I was looking at those on the Kverneland site the other day and wondered where they got used and what for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fendt pwr Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 The idea was a bit of a fizzer it's fair to say.I can't think of any job a disc plough could do beter than a chisel plough.The mighty chisel plough is starting to come back in fashsion over here,I've seen a few guys replace old bits of kit with a good tidy chisel plough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie Posted December 6, 2005 Author Share Posted December 6, 2005 Thanks for all the info lads, It looks as if it was one of these implements that didn't work. That is why I hadn't seen one before and explains why the disc's are not worn. Tried one pass and put too the back of the yard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted December 6, 2005 Share Posted December 6, 2005 Massey Ferguson marketed one in the late 80's over here (in the UK) - I will look out the borchures later if I get a chance. Never seen one myself but the local land was never suited to them I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 6, 2005 Share Posted December 6, 2005 They use them on light African soils. I know someone who imports them (3 disc) brand new from Turkey to ship out with refurb tractors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 I got some more info on this disc plough today, I was with my boss today and we passed the place were the plough was and I asked if he know any thing about them. He was saying that he used to use them in the 90's, This one is made buy International and that they used to be very popular here in Western Australia. He said this one is a small one and that he used to pull two thirty disc ploughs behind a Versatile artic pushing out 300 hp. The soil here is very sandy and they were right for the conditions but now every one is now on single pass so they became useless and now are worth only scrap money. He said he might have a photo of him using them so we'll wait and see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 That would be nice to see Richie, keep us posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 yeah I'd look forward to that too. Something different for us to see. Good work Richie!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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