Breaking discs

[furrowtickler]

I’ll give you guys the good news if you want to hear it.

I have rented discs three times in the fall, to “retake” sloughs and put them back into production. Each time, it caused excessive rainfall, and it was a waste of my time and money.

But when you get those sloughs nice n black, it WILL rain, and do its best to fill them back up with water.

So good on y’all for giving it a whirl. Western Canada will thank you.

The low areas we built back better the past two years were the only areas that actually produced this year
Those few low areas added up to about 100 ax and produced about 20-25% of our total production
Without those low areas our yields would have been even more dismal
Probably doing another 100 ac the past few days with a Salford 4100 .
If not flooded they are 100 % ready to seed now
If they fill with water great, if not it will be extremely important to our bottom line
These are seasonal wet areas that eat up some of our most productive land .
The big natural sloughs will obviously be left , they are actually wet lands which are valuable too.
Time will tell , but it was sure satisfying on a dry year in an extremely dry area to have some nice crop to harvest

[furrowtickler]

It was these same highly productive areas that helped us get through the drought of 2000 to 2003

[foragefarmer]

We have a 25 ft Hutchmaster, does a good job.

It's heavy enough to cut and and can takes stones well.


We also have a 10 ft Bush Hog for making fire guards, that thing is a beast for cutting.

[the big wheel]

I guess as another idea sheepwheat at some point
Will be right they likely will become too wet
Was thinking If a person could time it right and
Seed Timothy or some other water liking hay
Then some good use could be made of those
Areas in wetter years. But I don’t see that for at least
A couple.

[WiltonRanch]

I have a 10 blade Rome. Only goes after the cat. Then we have a 1225 ezeeon and an old 14 foot tandem ezeeon. Would like a 20+’ tandem for doing low spots. Only way for us to keep low spots not flooding is to landscape them and add some dirt. We’re in pothole country. Rockpiles end up in these potholes so pushing those rocks in and capping them with clay and topsoil works. Don’t really have any big drainage schemes nor want to move all the water off in a big way. Still have moo moos so water is important but don’t mind consolidating into one place instead of a bunch of sloughs. Those old Rome plows are beasts. The grease bath bearings are indestructible and really not bad to change disks in the right frame of mind. Neighbour has a 12 blade whom the previous owner put a set of wheels on the back for transport.

[the big wheel]

This thread goes to prove what a good bunch of people there are on this site.
You would think after seeing all the slandering rude remarks made by the original poster, people wouldn’t be so willing to help.
Is that a good thing?
I’ve done it myself but later felt violated, fool me once….

Please don’t go there obviously your looking
And seeing what you want to see shiit goes on
Here all the time between other posters not going to
Get into it but calling someone out as apposed
To someone being an ignorant conceited disrespectful
Ass? People see what they want to see on this site
Mostly according to political philosophy they
Just can’t let go of. I ll call you out, up down and
Other wise if your an ass whether you are
Left right or in between. Sorry hope doesn’t
Spoil the thread but the comment you
Made was ass like.

[the big wheel]

You bring it on yourself, and once again proved what kind of a person you are.

Lmao. So let’s see you complain about hyjacked threads
And your addition to an actual ag thread is gee
All of you nice people replying inspite of one
Bad terrible person. Like honestly your one
Of rhe biggest covid issue dinks on here to other
People. Grow up and move on or fk off.
Don’t play little mind games.

[the big wheel]

Weak are weak and users are users, enough said.

Got any disc info? There a been a lot of
Good stuff posted info I didn’t know and
Would rather hear it from an actual farmer
Than a salesperson?

[WiltonRanch]

Anyone ever see those disc rollover plows? There were a few in this country. Talk about breaking land. Guys pulled them with a cat and left such a rough job that disking it down was something else.

[makar]

Anyone ever see those disc rollover plows? There were a few in this country. Talk about breaking land. Guys pulled them with a cat and left such a rough job that disking it down was something else.

Was done here after ww2, intent was homesteads for vets, what happened poor soil plus burying all the trash plus pulling up clay, tool had six foot blades, govt bought out the vets and is now the volin community pasture.