small disc question

[northernpotter]

Have a small disc maybe 24 inches wide maybe 30 inches long, unknown maker. No place to hook to a piece of equipment to pull it. what would be good to use to put on it to make it work? Also where can you get the disk for replacement. One disk is slightly bent. I live in Lancaster county,pa. Thanks in advance.

 

[TMIL]

A couple pieces of flat stock or angle iron would probably work. Could even adjust attack angle with holes drilled at different lengths. Around here you can get replacements at Rural King or Tractor Supply stores.

 

[Bill]

I would think a disc that small would only work well on previously worked ground. Don't know how to make it heavy enough to break sod.

 

[Someday isle]

Obviously you'll need some way to hook up to your ATV, drawbar, or ball hitch. You'll have to craft that somehow depending on what you'll be towing it with.
Then you'll need plenty of weight to make it work. I used this exact style of ATV disc last year with good success on logging roads. I set it up just like this with the cinder blocks. Without the extra weight it just bounced around. By the time I was done my cinder blocks had been reduced to, well, cinder. The bouncing around broke them to pieces. I didn't have any sod to break through and I had killed all the vegetation that was there. I can't imagine trying to break through sod in an old pasture though. I'd think a small disc like yours would be best for a small garden that had been worked before. I only paid a little over $700 for this disc. It might be worth investing in a more substantial piece of equipment but if it's all you've got it might be worth giving it a try. Sometimes you just have to work with what you have. Can you upload a picture?

 

[Someday isle]

I should have given specs - mine has a 60 inch cut and weighs just under three hundred pounds without the weight added. It's got a pretty aggressive disc angle too. I think that matters with a light weight disc.

 

[MRBB]

that disc will be useless on any ground but maybe super soft top soil that has never settled
them small disc were made for being pulled behind riding lawn mowers, and they just don't have enough weight to them(down force) to do much, you'd be wasting your time with it, and money to replace disc's and build a draw bar
sorry, NOT what you want to hear, but being honest to you!

you will get more ground turned over using a walk behind tiller, and even that will be VERY slow goings to make a decent sized plot.

if you DON"T have a tractor and a bigger sized disc, best advice I can give you, being where you live(farm belt area more or less) Hire a local with a tractor and a disc to do your ground turning over, be money well spent, and save you a LOT of time and up keep

even ATV sized disc, are NOT that great on HARD ground, due to again, they just don;t have the real weight needed, and if you DO add enough weight, they will be killing your atv pulling them for hrs to do an acre sized plot
YES it can be done and MANY do it, but again, there are better ways of getting it done
WE have 6 different ATV designed Disc's in my hunting camp, we tried a BUNCH of them, and we have about a dozen assorted atv's from 350's to 1,000 cc sized one's there.
I have DONE small plots with an ATV for almost 20 yrs now, but its a LOT of seat time and energy to make em, a CHEAP tractor is less than an atv and a decent Tractor DISC is less than a GOOD ATV designed disc, so the math say something if you look at it

AGAIN< you can most likely get a local with a tractor to turn your ground over rather easy if you ask about!
NOT the same as doing it yourself, I get this, but , trust me, its the better option till you get better tools to work with yourself!
and YES< I had 2 of these SMALL disc for riding mower, were given to me by original owners, and after TRYING to make them work, I know why they gave them away for free LOL

will do nothing but frustrate you and do little dirt turning over LOL

SORRY< again, just being honest to you!
I'm 1 hr+ north of you too?

 

[northernpotter]

Thanks guys . just getting some info and ideas before proceeding