Agriculture Reference
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Whenit'stimetoharvestthehumusfromthecompostpile,afront-endloadermakes
Richard's job loading the manure spreader easier.
With any loader, look for signs of stress: bowed arms, welded repair spots, worn-out pins
and bushings, and leaking hydraulic cylinders.
A quick-attach option for loader buckets is an extra cost, but handy if the bucket obscures
your view and you want to remove it when not needed or you require different bucket sizes
for different jobs: for example, large bucket for sawdust, small bucket for gravel. Also, with
a quick-attach option, you can easily remove a bucket and attach a front-mounted posthole
digger, a hay spear or tines, or a fork for moving pallets or posts.
DISC
A disc is a plow that uses rows of evenly spaced circular discs to turn over soil. A disc
is handy for lightly working the soil in an arena or for aerating a very compacted pasture.
Pull-type discs are common and inexpensive because they are very difficult to transport.
They cannot be raised and lowered like hydraulic or three-point discs. To be moved, pull-
type discs have to be either lifted with a loader onto a trailer or dragged behind the tractor,
discing everything along the way, including driveways, road surfaces, and grassy areas! In
addition, if you use a pulltype disc to work an arena, you will not be able to back deep into
the corners and will end up with an oval area of worked soil.
Hydraulic discs are raised either by the tractor's three-point hitch or by a hydraulic ram
on the disc. Smaller hydraulic discs (6-foot) are operated off the three-point. They are
raised in the air to be carried from point A to point B. Larger, heavier discs have tires that
are lowered to carry the weight of the disc for transport. Hydraulically raised discs prevent
damage to areas that you do not want worked. They also allow you to position the disc in
tight spots. Using reverse gear, you can raise the disc; back it into the corners of your arena,
field, or pasture; then set it down and work the earth right up to the fence line.
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