Posted by casered on April 06, 2008 at 21:01:11 from (71.181.208.46):
In Reply to: Hey You Smart Guys! posted by Allan In NE on April 05, 2008 at 05:30:11:
I know this isnt a comparison for what you have, but its a good story. About three years ago we were running behind on some tillage work. Dad had the 7120 hooked into the big plows and was working it and we needed to get some ground disked as well so we could plant the next day, ( was suppose to rain alot after that and we wanted to turn and burn some ground before it hit). Anyway I hooked up the disk to our 766 to try and get enough done so he could start planting when he was done with the plowing.
The disk is a 16ft Krause cutting disk with 22" blades, and they were only on the disk about two years at the time so they weren't wore down hard. Now I could not come close to sinking it all the way in but it did handle the disk in lo 3rd with the torque ahead most of the time. There were some hills where it was a challenge but none the less that old girl did the job.
Needless to say I would not be inclined to ever do it again, and as soon as the Magnum was off the plows it was in the disk and the 23' Brillion packer was hooked on then as well and we were back in business as usual. As far as tires go the 766 did the work on 18.4-34's that are loaded and it has two sets of wheel weights, and the front bracket was empty. Our magnum even though its a little bigger than a 1066 pulls both the 16'disk and the 23'packer together on 18.4-42 duals with no additional rear ballast but it does have a fully loaded front weight rack. We have both heavy topsoil low ground and steep shaley knobs on our farm, so we cover the gammet as far as varying soil conditions. The magnum handles both with ease, before that we had a 1270 Case with 20.8-38 duals with cast hubs on both inner and outer wheels and it two handled both at the same time just as well. In fact there are times I think the old Case handled the two better than the newer tractor. There are times if were are just doing some touchup work that the duals are not on the tractor, but then usually we are not sinking the disk hard and the packer is not on either and it does fine. If that 1066 was on my farm I wouldn't be afraid for a minute to put a 20' disk behind it, but then again your soil might be heavier, but in our topsoil it would be NO problem.
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