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Dick L · Nov 29, 2016

I might pull it with a tractor. Needs a bit of work and a wheel if I choose to use wheels rather than a tongue. I'll have to see how heavy the tongue is for my mini horses. I'm tickled with it anyway.

DENNIS MIN · Nov 29, 2016

Dick L,

Can mini horses pull that? I know little of their strength or capability.

D.

Billy NY · Nov 29, 2016

That would be something, could you team up any of the mini's for something like this ?

Dick L · Nov 29, 2016

It all depends how it is set. To actually fit soil deep it would be more than they could go for long. With the disc blades set straight it would be a cute cart to pull in the yard and watch the cars slow down that would pull easy.

This could be done if all else fails.

^D

DENNIS MIN · Nov 29, 2016

Dick L,

Looking at that picture, the discs look a lot shinier than the wheels. The animals do not look mini.

D.

J. Schwiebert · Nov 29, 2016

What brand of disk is it? There is a Moline here with about the same wheel problem.

Dick L · Nov 29, 2016

No idea of the make. I have one here wider with more blades and I could not find a brand name on any of the castings. It has both front wheels. I will try to find a brand name on this one when I get it home. It is down by Dayton Ohio. I hope I can get away one day next week to pick it up.

Dick L · Nov 29, 2016

My team will be about half that tall. The picture was to show the carrier wheels that makes it a cart. I would think the disc in the picture was new and had not been in the dirt. Scrawny feller in the seat though. I thought they were advertising the carrier wheels in the picture. I stole that picture some where when I was thinking of building a disc like it a few winters back before I had to use walkers and wheelchairs to get around.

Ivan in Mich · Nov 29, 2016

I have one just like that and I use it behind my Cub tractor. Mie has 2 uses, to disk with and then I tip it up and mount my game cam n by my food plot

Suffolk1 · Nov 29, 2016

A bit of repair work to do on the disc and you will be on your way. Doubt your mini's will run away with it, but they will sure turn heads. I use one similar to yours. Also have a rear tandem to hook on when we need to get-er- done.

Dick L · Nov 29, 2016

Fantastic picture!

Leroy · Nov 29, 2016

That wheel is required to keep it running level, without it the toung might just be trying to hit the ground and doing so it makes the outer blades go deeper than the middle ones or the toung might want to ride high and outer ends of the gangs not doing any work. I have an Amish friend that was trying to use front half of a tractor like that and the gangs would piviot both up or down depending on how it felt it wanted to do. In the owners manual it showed an adapter to make the toung rigid and I talked him into letting me make an adapter and him putting it on. Instead of his fields being nothing but ridges and valleys it started to look like it should. Should be no problem finding a wheel that would work. I rebuilt the fron half of a tandam tractor disk for horses and I used the caster wheel and shank from a discarded hay rake and for the bearings the axle bearings from a different discarded hay rake. YThat toung needs a way to hold it level to work corectly. And you could put a 4 or 6 horse hitch on it.

Dick L · Nov 30, 2016

If needed
I Could Do This

Dick L · Nov 30, 2016

This is where I came up with the idea to use a tongue along with a larger disc I have here that looks like the hardware is set up to use either way.
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Dick L · Nov 30, 2016

Pictures of the larger one I have. I took it apart and had new stone pans bent and they missed the bend and don't fit the ends. I need to take them to someone else to get them right so I can put it back together.

Leroy · Nov 30, 2016

The Amish that I work with do not like to use anything like that the horses have to carry-control height of toung as it is hard on the horses necks. On their mowers they do use a long toung but it is used with a caster wheel and a hinge up-down just in front of the caster, don't much care for the steerable trucks like they were made with from factory. A lot of the machinery they use a tractor hitch behind a fore cart.

Dick L · Nov 30, 2016

Here dennis is a team about the size of my larger team. They will surprise you in what they can pull. I don't let mine run like the video.
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