The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: Norfolk Newby on March 02, 2012, 10:02:29 am
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While it is an old document, you might find this of (historic?) interest:-
http://www.starke-pferde.de/Betriebsanleitungen/IHC/IHC%20disc%20harrows.pdf (http://www.starke-pferde.de/Betriebsanleitungen/IHC/IHC%20disc%20harrows.pdf)
The source web site might also be of interest to anyone here with a shire horse (provided you speak German)
http://www.starke-pferde.de/ (http://www.starke-pferde.de/)
I have been using my disk harrow and wondered whether I was using it properly. I am a novice and largely self-taught when it comes to farming machinery. So I did a Google search and this came up.
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Fascinating old document is that, some good pictures as well. I am going to borrow a disc harrow this week with a draiseing chain behind it. I have tipped manure around last years tatty field ( no muck spreader ) and dozed it around. Let this rain and cold break it all down a bit and then hope for a dry spell, then I'm going to tackle it with a borrowed disc harrow. Not had a decent look at it yet because it is buried in nettles! But the farmer tells me he uses it on his own vegy patch and that it works. Apart from pulling it around at a slow pace, is there anything else to know ?? Unlike my Howard Selectatilth, now there is a lesson learnt. ;)
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in the old days when there was a push to get two blades of grass to grow where one grew before and re seading was carried out on old pasture and hill sides all manor of disc harrows were made for all different purposes remember they were using at most 60 horsepower tractors that had been converted from 30-40 horsepower ones crawlers were the vehicle of choice as four wheel drive tractors were aftermarket adoptions :farmer: