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A Print-only subscription doesn't qualify. The tractor will be a wheatland , sandy loam soil. I was thinking of putting the beam of the chisel across the center of the disc and then attaching a shank on 16 inch spacings currently has wide sweeps on it, might go to 12 inch spacing and run twist points??
Not a really good picture of the disc, but the only one I can find at the moment. I have a drag type like yours Graham 7 shank Hoeme and I love it. I run 2" chisels on it. I plow Houston Black clay and it is tough to break up but the Hoeme does the trick where nothing else could when the clay is dry and hard fall prep after removing summer hay crop. Your harrow looks more like what we use for a disc plow up here; plenty of weight. From what I know about that plow and from the looks of your disc harrow, I'd say that both require separate attention from the tractor.
Even though the Hoeme is built to stay in the soil, with that much disc rolling behind it I it would tend to pull up out of the soil. But, like everything else, you don't know till you try it. Course you could weight it to help it stay the course.
I think that if you had long narrow rows to prepare you would be better off than square to minimize turns with plenty of turning room at the ends of the rows. Seems to me they would be very awkward and even though you would have lifts on both implements, the disc would tend to pull the Hoeme to the side of which ever way you were turning. Course if the ends of the field were adequate and hard surfaced, that probably wouldn't be a problem. Course Sandy Loam works to your advantage.
My 2c, Mark. I'm not convinced that's a really heavy chisel plow, but Yetter has a set of bolt on coulters for chisel plows that do a really nice job of cutting and mixing trash for vertical tillage. They just bolt on in place of the chisel points, and the shanks act as springs If you have sandy loam soil, why not consider no-till??? Much less equipment cost than ANY tillage system. Combine that with less fuel cost, less breakdowns, less time You mentioned wanting to help soil structure- the vertical-till stuff will only destroy it.
I've watched my neighbor get poorer and poorer looking crops with his vertical till stuff Good luck Not sure that would work on flood irrigated land?? Hard to get it flat enough to flood with the no-till. We have some irrigation here, but no flood irrigation. Where are you?
I can tell you this, no-till fields after several years are usually A LOT smoother to drive over than any that have been tilled. My employees are always reminded of that if we do some custom harvesting or haying for neighbors who till. Just a thought I had How about building a frame to convert your chisel to be 3-point mounted, and pull the disc behind?? No 3pt on a wheatland tractor. Only tractor I have with a 3pt is a JD 70, just not enough tractor for what I'm trying to do.
Do it if you want.. I used them for a couple years, wasnt completely sold on the concept. Would probably be better to straighten the disk gangs if you can.. That has been done before and described in Farm Show magazine. The 'makers' seemed to be pleased with the results. However,I hate to see a good Graham Hoeme and disk get destroyed,but Go for it. Do you think this tillage method would work well on flood irrigated fields? I don't know of anyone around here doing it.
Wont work. Trash collects and stops up the rows.
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