Two Offset Disks Become One

Two Offset Disks Become One TILLAGE EUIPMENT Disks (18) 29-6-30 Ron Post couldn't see spending $3,000 for an offset disk when he was sure that joining two inexpensive smaller ones would work just fine. His hunch paid off when he successfully built a 14-ft. unit by hooking two 7-ft. disks together. It cost him less than $1,000. "I had $150 in one of them, $525 in the other, and spent $40 for a 3-pt. hitch toolbar. I bought some new hydraulic hoses for $100, and already had two used cylinders to complete the job," the Celina, Ohio man says. Post bolted the disks' hitches to a toolbar from a Deere 4-row cultivator. To make a hitch on the toolbar, he welded two 1-in. thick pieces of steel plate on its hinge point (the part that allowed the cultivator to swivel up and down, keeping the implement level). These two pieces of steel plate (one is 3-in. tall by 8-in. long and the other one is 4 by 12-in.) form a hitch that is held onto the toolbar by the original bracket that has three holes û it's a 1-in. square U-bolt from the cultivator. Post welded the bottom swivel solid. He then made another bracket to hold the hydraulic hoses up in the air. "I had to bolt on a 4 by 4 by 1/2 in. angle iron bumper between the two disks so they wouldn't bang into each other and cut my tires," Post says of a final alteration. He uses a 7060 AC tractor to pull the unit and works at a speed of 6 to 7 mph. "You can go right along with that thing and it cuts just as deep as a plow. It works very well and I love it," he says. If there ever comes a time when Post needs to work in a smaller space, he says the two disks can be easily separated. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ron Post, 726 Skeels Rd., Celina, Ohio 45822 (ph 419 942-1897).

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