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Oskaloosa, Iowa 52577 | . |
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west central wisconsin | The ones I have been around were heavy, with large diameter notched discs and an aggressive angle, so they truly plowed |
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Western Iowa | After having both, the offset will never leave a streak in the middle and doesn't need a stupid field cultivator shank in the middle of it..... |
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West Texas | +1 Also, You can turn to the left without raising the gangs. Turning right, though, can and will blow out gang bearings. |
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south central kansas | The offset design will go in the ground better when ground is hard. But the only way to make it work right is go around and around not back and forth. |
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SW Ont | .
Edited by j Feces 8/16/2014 19:09
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North Liberty and South Bend, Indiana | A good one will cut and bury almost anything you run it over. Stupid heavy so they cut and penetrate which means they pull like a boat anchor...ship anchor. |
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Northern CA | I asked this question in the spring, and I have owned both types. I ended up buying another offset from a NAT member by the end of it. I will see if I can post the link here.
http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=478610&posts=1...
Edited by Fawazhay 8/16/2014 22:29
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Somerville, Indiana | dad almost bought a Kewanee disc when they had the offset with 36 inch blades...He went with an offset sold by the local AC dealer instead...Discs are farther apart than X discs, very heavy, pull hard, compaction probably a problem, we didn't use the offset disc much the second year and it was traded on a disc chisel as the Versatiles got here. |
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| Construction companies used to use them to pack dirt for road bases, but I suppose the sheep's foot type rollers are a little quicker at it now. |
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West Chazy, New York | The real answer is none except they don't leave a ridge in the middle. Most offsets are heavy, but a tandem could be built as heavily as an offset and would cut as well. Typically an offset is only one section, although there are some folding ones made. When it comes to 36 and 42 inch blades there is too much weight for hinges, so they are almost always a single frame. The typical large offset has five or six inch lift cylinders, and it is a lot faster to simply line out the field to make all left turns than to wait at the end of each run for the lift cycle. One other advantage is that it's a little easier to change blades and bearings. I've banged the back of my head too many times on the middle sections of a tandem. |
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What is the advantage to the offset disk design, as compared to the "X"?
