Posted by Gene Dotson on November 08, 2009 at 17:02:48 from (69.88.222.62):
In Reply to: How much disc??? posted by John - OH on November 08, 2009 at 15:32:19:
John; Being from western, Ohio, I feel I can give you some first hand experience with our soils and M sized tractors. If you want to do full tillage on freshly plowed ground, a 9 foot wheel disc will be all you ever want to pull and then you will need duals on the tractor. If you want to use it as primary tillage, like corn or soybean stubble, then you will handle a 10 foot disc. Also, you will probably want to consider pulling a harrow or cultipacker behind for a finishing pass and will be able to do that with a 9 foot disc. Overloading a tractor with a disc, even though it will pull it in a lower gear, reduces the effectiveness if it. Our heavy clay soils are so much different from soils of the midwest states and demands about a third more power than working soil in Illinois and Iowa... Gene
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