Poor working

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5 year old buck +
My mother in law gave me this atv disc last year. I was excited to use it on my logging road and also in a out of reach small plot. To my disappointment the disc is terrible. Even when on soft ground the disc just bounces back and forth side to side. You have to go as slow as possible just to have it scratch at all. I does get better with weight on top but I don't know if I could put enough on it to have it work right. Any ideas of how to fix this? It doesn't have a adjustment to make the disc less aggressive.
 
Don't see a photo but.. Cinder blocks or tree stumps can work for weight on small discs. But being very light duty ATV use, you have to be careful you don't bend or break anything.

You touched on my gripe with the food plot industry. So many push these ATV implements, when reality - They just aren't built or suited for the use they are intended for. Only sold to make a buck. When instead of an expensive ATV - For the same price many could get a smaller used tractor and a disc that actually... works.
 
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I couldn't get the pic to up load. I believe it's a "field ruff disc from sportsmen warehouse. I totally agree with you on the atv/ food plots. I have a 10ft disc I use with my tractors. The disc actually seems very well built just a piss poor design I believe. The angle just seems so aggressive that it doesn't work. If this is the case, it is b.s that they would release a product into the market without fixing it first.
 
Can you post a link? Sounds like you need weight. Can you custom pour some concrete weights?
 
This one
 
I couldn't get the pic to up load. I believe it's a "field ruff disc from sportsmen warehouse. I totally agree with you on the atv/ food plots. I have a 10ft disc I use with my tractors. The disc actually seems very well built just a piss poor design I believe. The angle just seems so aggressive that it doesn't work. If this is the case, it is b.s that they would release a product into the market without fixing it first.
https://www.sportsmansguide.com/pro...LJU5pzYnRpykFTHqRC67kIjld9ZO9EkBoC55MQAvD_BwE

This one? I just googled what you wrote. There were a couple of versions much cheaper. This looks like you could stack some weight on it.
 
I have made my own ATV disc from an 8' field disc. I actually made 2. I took the front half, that has the adjustable angle, and just pull that with a couple hundred pounds of weight on it. The second one, I took the back half, and cut it in half, and welded the 2 side if front and back of each other, having a pivot point in between them, so I can angle them. I need weight with both of them, but with enough weight, I can dig deeper then my atv will pull. I will see if I can find some pictures of them. Since they are now buried in a couple feet of snow.
 
Weight on an ATV disk will help but don't expect good results with a single gang disk. I've had a few different ATV disk over the years and the only one worth anything was a Roth. They stopped making them about 10 years ago. disk.jpg
 
not going to like my 2 cents, but best advice is sell it
if your determined to use an atv to pulls a disc
buy a better designed double row disc with slotted disc's disc, of the largest disc' you can find,, and having adjustable cut angles on it!
the problem really with atv disc is, , for a disc to actually work it needs down force, , then to get enough down force you need wright
if they made the ATV size that would work great, the atv would be killed in short order trying to pull it

just look at how much HP is recommended for a tractor or that is both heavier and geared lower with a rear end that is capable of handling the stress of pulling a disc

ATV"s honestly are not MADE for doing slow going hard pulling for long periods of time!

even large CC larger HP motored ATv,s are NOT made to run slow working hard, many don;t like to hear this, but its a fact
there cooling systems are not made for it!
short periods of time, OK< but its still very hard on an atv

a OLD school OLD tractor costing 1500-2500 bucks will out work an atv ten foklds and not be working things near as much, and why, once anyone that goes from an ATV to a tractor, realizes they should have done so sooner!

if NOT willing to sell what you have
best thing you can do is maybe fit it with larger disc, add weight, and make sure any site your trying to turn over is burned down with no living vegetation on it
GO super slow, and let gravity work, doing plots with an atv is NOT a fast game to play, its slow and steady and over lapping pass after pass! in small steps, lots of seat time to do little work!
 
That one is adjustable.
I didn't see that. That one looks the closest to what I have except it is a flip one with wheels on the top. All you do is pull the tounge out and flip it. if that one adjusts maybe mine does also.
 
not going to like my 2 cents, but best advice is sell it
if your determined to use an atv to pulls a disc
buy a better designed double row disc with slotted disc's disc, of the largest disc' you can find,, and having adjustable cut angles on it!
the problem really with atv disc is, , for a disc to actually work it needs down force, , then to get enough down force you need wright
if they made the ATV size that would work great, the atv would be killed in short order trying to pull it

just look at how much HP is recommended for a tractor or that is both heavier and geared lower with a rear end that is capable of handling the stress of pulling a disc

ATV"s honestly are not MADE for doing slow going hard pulling for long periods of time!

even large CC larger HP motored ATv,s are NOT made to run slow working hard, many don;t like to hear this, but its a fact
there cooling systems are not made for it!
short periods of time, OK< but its still very hard on an atv

a OLD school OLD tractor costing 1500-2500 bucks will out work an atv ten foklds and not be working things near as much, and why, once anyone that goes from an ATV to a tractor, realizes they should have done so sooner!

if NOT willing to sell what you have
best thing you can do is maybe fit it with larger disc, add weight, and make sure any site your trying to turn over is burned down with no living vegetation on it
GO super slow, and let gravity work, doing plots with an atv is NOT a fast game to play, its slow and steady and over lapping pass after pass! in small steps, lots of seat time to do little work!
I agree with you 100 % on the tractor over atv. My father in law smoked his motor on his artic cat 400 with this same exact disc. 400 cc air cooled putting in food plots in July= blown motor. I tried to talk him into a tractor but he was to stubborn. Spent around $12,000 on atv and atv implements. The one day they put 50 miles on doing a 1 acre plot. Crazy! I can't really sell it since my MIL gave it to me for free after my FIL passed. I just would like it to disc my logging rd that I can't get my tractor disc to. Just so disappointed how this thing works.
 
I second just doing drag as all you need to do really is scuff up the ground not turn it over

the key however is again killing off existing vegetation on them first
spray, get a drag to scuff things up and seed(odds are you maybe will need lime and other things to actually make anything but weeds grow and strive however, buts that's a different topic all together!
 
This is what I made and works ok, I broke a couple discs on ricks that need to be repaired. View attachment 39912View attachment 39913View attachment 39914


I made a bunch of like disc's over the yrs, what I found is, you really need slotted discs on the front to get the best cut started, once the fronts dig in(not a bad idea to have all slotted either) but if on a budget, having the fronts with slotted ones makes a BIG difference in how well they work and worth the costs to add them, saving in seat times and well amount of passes needed
they pay for themselves fast!
 
I made this one from an old full size0831141231.jpg disc. This is the only pic I can find. It's heavy and it does cut but it's an atv killer. I only used it one year and it now sits in the weeds. Couldn't keep from overheating and I knew I'd kill the 4 wheeler if I kept trying to use it.
 
you also have to keep in mind that even when you have a GOOD disc, the ATV is very limited on what it can PULL, due to how little weight it has, they will loose traction pretty fast if you have ant real amount of BITE on a disc

you can ADD some weight to the atv, but then you start taxing the HP and cooling system on atv Really FAST, AS MANY HAVE FOUND OUT!

so ATV implement makers tend to make implements knowing this
which is also why many don;t work anything like REAL implements made for tractors, even if they look the same
 
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