Disc harrows

[FB]

What sizes do these come in??, are they still popular?? \

just curious, the farmer i usually get pics of (the one who now has that Case instead of his JD combine), has 2 6920's but seems to go over the field with a small set of discs that seem to be no wider than the tractor, surely he would be better off with a bigger set? \

[Kris]

Think ive seen a 6mtr set being used around hear about 2 years ago though now

[gogreengelb]

The trailed versions take a bit of pulling Ben and it depends a lot on soil type I think only big farms on light soil would use wide ones

[Kris]

I suppose it depends on the depth theyre set at also and if its to break up plughed soil or mix in the surface.

[Spud]

this is a good topic over here in Austrailia we use them alot on Vegetables because they make good seedbeds

we bought a Napire Grassland about 10 years ago which was a 28 plate or 24 i cant remember but that can just be pulled by a 100hp tractor with rowcrops at 6.2 kmph

but they get big over here the biggest i has seen is a 92 plate i think it was it was a monster

found a pic of a similar 1

[Deere-est]

Ben, we pulled a 4m set of trailed Parmiters and a 4m Lynx Sumo tyre press on the back with 130hp on sandy soil through to clay, level and hilly; quite happily, that was on stubble at about 3inches. Pulling the press on ploughed ground was a bit too much though se we'd drop it off for that pass.