A repair project: disc

[bill grooms]

farm disc

My x boss uses a small disc setup like that at a dirtbike race track that he runs. He flattens out the trails when they become un-even. The post that the discs are mounted on his equipment are made of cast iron. He hits stumps from time to time snapping them off. I've repaired them about five times already. His should be made out of steel.

[KenCo]

In my part of thw world, I love to find old discs like these. I plug up the hole, weld 3 legs on the bottom, add two horseshoe handles, sit the whole thing over a mesquite wood fire and go to cookin......eeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaa !!!! ...Ken

[Albin]

RockyD,

I did that mostly for corrosion protection since I've had experience where I did not completely weld a joint and now I have rust "leaking" out of the joint. Hopefully, what I added will negate the additional but unneeded welding.

Roger, the angle on this disc was not adjustable, it was pretty much set by the structure. The only adjustment was the 3/8" bolts to go fore and aft, but I deleted that option by welding the whole thing together.

Thanks,

Albin

Disc cut into soil. The more disc is angled away from line of travel increases soil movement. The angle is adjustable on better models.

I noticed you welded all the way around...this is a case where too much weld will weaken the joint. By welding the backside, you reduce the strength of the angle. It's better to leave those welds off so the stress can flow through the angle. I see you did that also in the tongue welding too. Good looking welds BTW.

[Sberry]

Ya did a fine job and I also like that trasport,,,,, But,, I am going to shoot all those dam rats with hooves you been feeding. By the way,, that is not actually farm equipment,,, more correctly garden stuff.... hahaha

[axehind]

ah ok. I havent seen much farm equipment before. Actually I dont think I have even been on a farm before.

Those food plots for deer are a big help I hear. I know this is kinda getting off topic but do you use clover or some type of mixture?

axehind

[astro]

I can relate to the breakdowns. I did alot of repairs at first. After I learned to stop and tighten things every now and then and not try to go too fast, I found it made a decent food plots. I also picked up a really beat up set of discs and fixed for a friend. Your welds looked good to me.

[Albin]

As someone said, its a small disc for plowing/turning small plots of land for planting, in this case, seed for deer plots. We used it last Sunday and it broke within the first 10 minutes, if that.

As far as I know, he hauls a trailer out to the site with the seed, then hooks it up behind the four wheeler.

I don't think we need anything more than a 1/2" grade 5 bolt, but I could be wrong. He originally had a 3/8" grade 2!

Now that we have this year's plots in, we won't use this until probably next spring. Oh well.

Any comments about the welds, good or bad? Or the reengineering?

Thanks,

Albin

[astro]

Albin,How does he transport it behind his 4 wheeler? Heres a pic of how I tote mine around. I made it with a wp 100. Yes those are hf wheels and load binder.

[astro]

Hi, I'm new to the forum.
Yes it's a small farm implement, used for making small food plots for deer. I also have repaired a few of these. I pull mine with a four wheeler.

[morpheus]

what do you guys pull it with ?

I'd extend the tongue piece out so that two bolts could be used to bolt it to the ball-hitch piece:

[axehind]

I got to ask. What is that? My guess is that it's a piece of farm equipment.

axehind

[Albin]

Lastly, here's a shot of the tongue area:

[Albin]

Here's a shot of the upper gusset (shown upside down since the disc is upside down on my bed rack). The gusset was added to prevent the disc tubes from bending over as they did during the original failure. There are 2 gussets, one for each side, and the material is 1 1/2" 14 ga. tubing left over from last week's jerry can rack project.

To the extreme right, you can see the end of the 1x1 1/2 angle that I added. The end that you see here was where the bed frame wheels were riveted to the frame.

All comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome!

Thanks,

Albin