Beaconlight's disk

[Bigdog]

Here are some shots of Bill's disk. (Didn't know where you wanted them Bill so I stuck 'em here!)

[beaconlight]

Thanks BD. I lashed 20 paving blocks to give the disk some weight and it worked. Joey had asked for them in another post.

Bill

[johnbron]

Looks like it mows nice. grass has a nice even looking cut to it.

[beaconlight]

Mow grass with a disk harrow? Should I use even mor di-electric grease? You learn more and more about how California does things every day. But then again we have Allen laying stripes with his Cub in NY.
Yes the grass is green but the last time that was cut was last fall with a 6' brush hog. We had a wet winter but a very dry spring. What with all the flood damage 2 months ago it is hard to believe that we are close to having not enough moisture to germinate crops.
That area is subsoil from when the PO dug the pond 30 or more years ago. Couple of times I was tempted to lime and fertelize it but I quickly came to my senses when I remembered that I was the one to cut it.

Bill

[Joey]

Thanks for the pics, Bill. The set of disks looks just like mine. You've got me itching to go out and cut up some ground, but we just need a little rain.......

[Arizona Mike]

beacon, how does your Cub do at pulling that...looks like too much for it

are those 9.5's on the rear

[sviennadan]

Yeah, what George said. I was scratchin' the back of my head, wonderin' the same thing.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

I recently sold a pull type like that (wish I hadn't, didn't like the lift type near as well). I had a concrete block on each gang for weight, and pulled it with no problem. I believe a cub could handle a 5 foot disk with no problem.

[beaconlight]

Pulled with absolute no problem. A friend and I took it apart, replaced 8 disks and all of the grease fittings. 7 of the 8 would not take grease, even with them unscrewed. At first I thought that the fittings were on plastic risers but it turned out to be hardened old grease on the steel tubing. The originals were 45 degree angle grease fittings. We found that 1 of them was so hard to get at that way so we replaced that 1 with a 90 degree.
Where I had plowed was a real washboard. I could not adjust the TSC plow to the 1050 correctly so that the second furrow did not fall into the previous one correctly. The cub pulled the disk smooth as silk. I have weights on all 4 corners. I had been prepared to use a drag as well but after 2 passes it almost looked as if I knew what I was doing. That means the old beech I was going to cut down will have to wait to be taken for firewood. I have 20 acres of woods 10 of which were high graded 15 years before I bought the place in 1985. The other 10 were a real rough corn field during WWII, then pasture and finally abandoned. There is a REA power line through there too. What with thinning and species selection I take all my heat from the woods. There is a lot of poplar that I have removed, a lot of Beech and soft maple none of which have much commercial value. Some of the beech has beech bark canker so that goes first. There is a little brown and yellow birch as well as ash, cherry and shag bark Hickory. Strangely enough there is some ironwood 14 inch DBH as well as a lot of Hop Horm beam. I don't have much use for cudgels so the horn beam is of little use. If I had a great need for wagon shafts the Ironwood would come in handy. Fortunately it is heavy enough to make up for the poplar.
If you havn't figured it out by now I love that 40 acre piece.

Bill

['60_Lo-Boy]

i have on like that its even got the rust/red paint mixture

[Jeff M]

Wow, I've been to Staten Island once in my life, and I never saw anything that looked as peaceful as that place. Guess the tour guide didn't know what he was doing...

[Jim Becker]

Easy to find. Just west of Staten Island Mall is Latourette Park. Right by the park is the corner of Richmond Avenue and Richmond Hill Road. From that intersection, you drive 150 miles north northwest.

[beaconlight]

Those pictures are my country place in Franklin NY. Staten Island was like that when I was a kid though. There were a number of dairy and truck farms.
Jim add another 22 miles and you are there.
You mention Richmond Ave and Richmond Hill Road. That was where Crampanas had a large Vegetable farm. It is all houses now. The Dinger farm was just east of that on Richmond Hill road. It is part of the Staten Island Mall, houses and a Grade School Just north of that was Demataras Farm. Where I live was part of the old Casio farm and Nursery. Behind us in 1959 was all open fields or woods and across the creek a guy ran sheep. I used to keep a 22 propped up in a corner of the kitchen. The newly weds suppimented their diet with phesant. We live in one of "the older neighborhoods" with a 50 X100 lot. There is another 10 feet from the property line to the curb. Newer places would have at least a duplex on that much or even 2 duplex.
It sucks! Only reason I am still here is parent old age and problems. If you can't take of your own, Who the h__l are you?

Bill

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

If you can't take of your own, Who the h__l are you?
Bill

Agreed! Even though I really liked where I used to live, I moved back to my orignal home area several years ago when my father had terminal cancer, and have been caring for my mother off and on through some of her health problems. It's like the picture of the little girl carrying a small boy almost as big as she was. The caption under the photo was" No sir, he ain't heavy, he's my brother." We live in a rural, failry low income area where most of the people still have the old time farm attitude of when you need help I'll be there before you have a chance to ask. That helps a lot also.

[beaconlight]

Part of SI I live in is mostly people born here. Some of them I went to school with. One neighbor I was at her sweet 16 party. That attitude exists here. My fathers neighborhood is that way too. Most of the island no way.

Bill