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20 miles west of Indianapolis Indiana | Can I get some suggestions for some older models offset disk that I can use to finish on some treeline cleanup mess on the cheap? |
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| Romes are nice if you have a dealer that sells their line of equipment |
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Greene/Orange/Louisa/Albemarle/Madison county Virg | we have a rhino i believe its made by Athens or hooked up with Athens somehow. Its 15 ft wide and HEAVY. I was stuck in traffic once hauling hay into Maryland. On the side of 95 was a Rome disc or Rome plow as people call them. It was hooked to a d5 dozer. My rhino is made heavier lol.
I'd recommend looking for one of those. |
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north-central Indiana west of Fulton | Cook and Miller are a couple you would see in Indiana often. |
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United States | I found a used Case IH 780 offset disc worked really well in sod and the woods I cleared. It has 32 inch notched blades.We ran over it two times then a finished disc before planting.
Byron EcIn |
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Wallis, TX | central va farmer - 2/12/2023 20:13
we have a rhino i believe its made by Athens or hooked up with Athens somehow. Its 15 ft wide and HEAVY. I was stuck in traffic once hauling hay into Maryland. On the side of 95 was a Rome disc or Rome plow as people call them. It was hooked to a d5 dozer. My rhino is made heavier lol.
I'd recommend looking for one of those.
Rome makes several models. I’ve never seen an Athens that was even close to a heavy Rome. Big G and Amco, along with some others make a heavy offset as well. |
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Se Nebraska | We have a miller it probably is not nearly as good as a Rome but it’s good enough. I’m not sure what model but it goes in the ground. |
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North Liberty and South Bend, Indiana | How big is you biggest horse? A Rome will bury a lot of trash but will bury a pretty big tractor too! |
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20 miles west of Indianapolis Indiana | Farms With CASE - 2/13/2023 00:00
How big is you biggest horse? A Rome will bury a lot of trash but will bury a pretty big tractor too!
360 and 425 versatiles |
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South East IL | Get a old ih 500 with notched blades might have to go over it a couple time works great 4 us when clearing tree lines. |
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sw corner ia. | I make sure I do a good job digging all the roots I can, then use an old kent spring tooth harrow that I put all the tines side by side on the back row.. this will sweep up just about everything that you don't want out there, then you can dump them all in a pile. take care of that with a skid loader and then finish with whatever you want. |
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Franklinton, LA | I am going to suggest an offset disk with 1/4 X 24" blades and 175 - 200 pounds of weight per blade. When working in stumps and rugged conditions, you will not have as many problems if you use 24" rather than 26" blades. Also, if a blade breaks a 24" blade will cost less to replace than a 26". You will need one PTO HP per 40 - 45 pounds of offset disk. A 10 -12' wide offset disk will do a good job of cutting and will not be as prone to failure as a wider disk. A disk with 9" blade spacing will be more dependable than one with 10 or 10 1/2" and reducing the gang cutting angle for the first two passes will help.
By the way, during the sixties they cleared a little over 4 million acres of hardwood forest in AR, LA and MS. In 1965 I graduated from engineering school and started working for AMCO in Yazoo City, MS. During the sixties AMCO manufactured a few thousand disks to work in recently cleared land. I would recommend an AMCO F42, J42, J43 or J44 disk. You can check the AMCOMfg web site for disk specifications. |
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20 miles west of Indianapolis Indiana | dvswia - 2/13/2023 06:40
I make sure I do a good job digging all the roots I can, then use an old kent spring tooth harrow that I put all the tines side by side on the back row.. this will sweep up just about everything that you don't want out there, then you can dump them all in a pile. take care of that with a skid loader and then finish with whatever you want.
I am in the process of making a root rake out of an old wil rich field cultivator in the shop now also to help with that. |
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Franklinton, LA | A chisel plow with the points removed and the shanks on the rear bar will work a lot better.
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Central, mn | Wishek |
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WCIN | I have an old Hutchmaster rolling plow. It’s really an offset disc. Bought it new in 1976. Works good to cut up roots and level areas after dozing. Also have an old 12 foot mounted field cultivator that we use to rake and level after we run the skid steer and rake with grapple. |
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Wallis, TX | johndeere430u - 2/13/2023 06:54
Wishek
Mine didn’t hold up in field conditions, I can’t imagine how bad they would be in stumps. |
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Ft. Ripley MN | Whishek… but they’re not exactly cheap. They definitely won’t lose any value while your using them though |
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Franklinton, LA | In the late sixties I made a few visits to LA Delta Plantation which is between Jonesville, LA and the Red River. They were using a fleet of dozers with shearing blades to clear about 60,000 acres of hardwood forest. For the first tillage pass they used 80 - 100 HP farm tractors and about 20 AMCO disks to chop the debris. I quickly learned that a notched blade will chop debris better than a smooth blade. A smooth blade will outlast a notched blade because it will not wear as fast and is more resistant to splitting. An offset disk will ride over a stump or slide sideways when it bites into a stump. A tandem disk has opposed gangs. When a tandem disk gang digs into a stump the opposed gang will resist the disk sliding sideways. The disk will ride over the stump, the stump will break or the disk will break.
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Wallis, TX | DRester - 2/13/2023 11:03
In the late sixties I made a few visits to LA Delta Plantation which is between Jonesville, LA and the Red River. They were using a fleet of dozers with shearing blades to clear about 60,000 acres of hardwood forest. For the first tillage pass they used 80 - 100 HP farm tractors and about 20 AMCO disks to chop the debris. I quickly learned that a notched blade will chop debris better than a smooth blade. A smooth blade will outlast a notched blade because it will not wear as fast and is more resistant to splitting. An offset disk will ride over a stump or slide sideways when it bites into a stump. A tandem disk has opposed gangs. When a tandem disk gang digs into a stump the opposed gang will resist the disk sliding sideways. The disk will ride over the stump, the stump will break or the disk will break.
When I was working in Ghana, we were clearing brush and smaller trees. We’d run the dozers, let the locals pick up the wood, then pull 20 blade Rome offsets with 42” blades. These were normally pulled with a D-7H, an 8950 would struggle with it half open. After that an Amco 30’ tandem with 24” blades and rock flex gangs followed by a Landplane. |
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Heavy offset disk model suggestions? For cleaning up fence rows.
