Re: I got a Question

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 02, 2004 at 02:43:32 from (216.208.58.169):

In Reply to: I got a Question posted by Zeth Poettker on March 01, 2004 at 15:39:02:

Zeth: You will get all sorts of opinions on this one, but I can give 1 good rule of thumb. If the disk doesn't require 1 to 1.25 hp per blade, it's not worth the effort to haul it home. I will qualify that a bit and say 18" blades on a wheel controled disk. Disks vary quite a bit on their weight per blade and some will tell you add weight. In my years of experience bearings, gang bolts, spacers and disk blades were usually engineered for the weight of the disk.

My dad bought a new 28 blade, 16" blades wheel controled disk in 1956. That disk was just about 8'. It could take the new 300 all the way down to 2nd gear low on the TA. I later bought another new disk same make as my dad had for use behind 560D and 656D. It was a 44 plate, 18" blades and just about 12' width. The 560 and 656 did handle this disk much better than 300 did the 28 blade disk. Now I am a bit rusty on drawbar hp Nebraska tests, but I'm thinking 300 was about 30 whereas 560 and 656 would be in the 53 hp range.

There are all kind of tractors pulling more disk than my rule of thumb, but then a lot of them are about as effective as a land roller, and my Super A will pull a 12' land roller.

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