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Disker at work

rusty6

rusty6

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One way diskers seem to be a bit of a novelty to some so I shot a bit of video while using mine to disk down some Kochia infested wheat stubble yesterday. The
Massey 360 was one of the best and was the end of the line too. My dad bought this one about 1979.

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Massey 360
 
We just called them a one-way in our part of SD. We used to one way the stubble about this time of the year to kill the cockle burs, sun flowers & other weeds. It sure put a damper on all weeds that thought they were going to make seeds after the small grains were harvested & before frost got them. This was before there was much use of chemical weed control.
 
(quoted from post at 07:41:16 08/31/21) Never saw one of those working. Do you also drill seed with the same unit?
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Yes, that box holds seed and fertilizer in separate compartments. Used it to plant crops for ten years and it was very good for the job.
 
Enjoyed that Rusty. Case made a nice one too. JD made a much smaller one way planter with only 8 disks that was common around here in the fifties. We pulled it with an 8N or a farmall H, planting winter rye right over summer hay ground in one pass.
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(quoted from post at 08:26:50 08/31/21) Enjoyed that Rusty. Case made a nice one too. >
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Massey and International had the best reputation around here. John Deere sold a lot of diskers too. CCIL made a good one. I still have my dad's old Case 900 12 foot disker that he bought new about 1961. Much lighter and smaller seed box than the newer diskers. It had a few weak spots on it that required repairs but we seeded crops for over ten years with that old Case.
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Rusty, Wish I lived close by and could visit. I always admire your camera placements to get great videos. Would be interesting to know where the term diskar or disker came from. Some of my relatives who farmed near Cabri in southwest SK called them diskars and I had to ask them what that was.

As Jal-SD said, we called them oneways in ND also, even though oneways were heavier built with larger diameter blades. John Deere called theirs Surflex Tillers.
 
I would really like to have one of them . They look like theyll go in the ground whether it wants to or not .
 
Looks like it did a good job!! When you planted with it, where was the seed dropped? In front of the disks? Did you have problems planting the seed too deep? If you used it in the same field and went the same direction, did it build a ridge around the edge of the field? I've never seen one here in Illinois, I'd like to have one to use at shows and plow days. Chris
 
(quoted from post at 17:34:29 08/31/21) Looks like it did a good job!! When you planted with it, where was the seed dropped? In front of the disks? Did you have problems planting the seed too deep? If you used it in the same field and went the same direction, did it build a ridge around the edge of the field? I've never seen one here in Illinois, I'd like to have one to use at shows and plow days. Chris
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Seed went down the tube right beside the disk so that the soil landed on top of it. Yes, it was possible to plant the seed too deep in soft ground. But not as bad as the old tillers that had a single gang of disks 8 or 10 feet long. No flex there on uneven ground. The newer diskers with short independent gangs of disks could flex over uneven ground as seen in the video.
Yes, they will build up a ridge just like a plow if you are not careful.
 

That was some interesting camera work Ralph. Sure gave a different perspective.

How's harvest going for you? Hope you didn't get anything out of the storm around the city tonight.
 
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That was some interesting camera work Ralph. Sure gave a different perspective.

How's harvest going for you? Hope you didn't get anything out of the storm around the city tonight.
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Hi Jim. Always looking for a different camera angle here. Nothing harvested yet. Just swathed canola. Weather was pretty threatening this evening but mostly wind and a little rain. Heard there was hail closer to the city.
 
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