Back to the 80's?

[raynaud]

Well on the way home from baseball practice i noticed that the discers were out, so i went home to change and rushed back to the farm to get some pics of them. i had asked my uncle " what are you doing with the discers? going back to the 80's? haha" he said "no with a grin on his face" anyways he wanted to mix the fertilizer in with the dirt to try somthing . so i manged to get a nice video of them working from the veiw of the cab.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2o_5aeZVg&feature=youtube_gdata

the old 5020 got the job of pulling the two 15ft MF 360's, they gave the 5020 a good workout.







veiw from the cab sorry its blury

[70ds]

Cool pics and video. I have never seen discers in action before.

[mstjhamfarms]

I concur with 70ds, thanks for sharing!

[nctobfarmer]

What are those discers used for? I've never seen those before. I know you said your uncle was using them for fertilizer application/mixing in the soil, but what were they originally used for?

[raynaud]

Thanks guys, the discers were how western Canadian farmers seeded there crops before the airseeders came around. They were used up till the around 01 02 in this area, there are the odd ones still around.

[AGrall]

Wow never even seen or heard of one of those, I like it that thing is neat!

[miniskfarm]

Apr 25, 2012 20:51:54 GMT -5 raynaud said:

Thanks guys, the discers were how western Canadian farmers seeded there crops before the airseeders came around. They were used up till the around 01 02 in this area, there are the odd ones still around.

they are hit or miss around here but were still very popular up until a few years ago

I saw these running two? years ago.


These two seeded up to 6,000 acres up until 8years ago


My uncle used these up until three years ago

[putsie]

Excellent!! Love seeing discer pics.... 30ft of fertilizer filled 360's would be a pretty healthy tug for a 5020, at least in our dirt. I take it you guys are not a "no-till" operation lol. How heavy would he have been putting on the fertilizer (lbs/acre)? Seems like a job for someone who's a sucker for punishment, if you had very much to put on.... You'd be stopping to refill constantly.

[raynaud]

Thanks guys, Chris its a good thing we didn't use them to put fertilizer in the ground bcause i don't think the 5020 would have pulled it without weights. We had just put the fertilizer on with the spreader

[putsie]

That makes more sense. I don't know why I had in my mind you were putting down fertilizer with the discers.....