Massey Discers

[sumdumguy]

Bucket, it would be an interesting experiment.

[Hopalong]

Still wonder why ads are asking for Massey and not others like CCIL discers.
Think CCIL was discer leader at one time.
Shaunovan outfit was also early builder.
Clarence Taylor,of Palliser Triangle Wheat Growers, worked on getting a Discers museum at Roleau, don't know if it is still kept up.

[Mjolnir]

Keith Hartsook, Norman Eastman, Fred Schneider were the inventors of the Massey discer I believe. The prototype was at Schneider's auction, unfortunately it was mistakenly scrapped.

[sumdumguy]

Not Massey discers, but Alex Sakundiak put the first seed boxes on discer frame around here and the Hanson Brothers were instrumental in discer design for years. Maybe before some of your time and you probably sure don't give a crap, but just saying. Maybe the day will come when we are pulling a grain tank and discers 90 feet wide. Yah!

[tstep]

If anybody's interested I got 24ft of CCIL discern sitting in my yard. Hmmm maybe I should put them to work.

[fjlip]

The 32' IH 300 diskers with ball and socket gang connectors plus rubber mounts were the only ones to work in STONES. Never broke a blade, whereas the CCIL and Case needed blades every day! Did many acres of stubble before the Sunflower cushion gang double off set disk.

[Mjolnir]

I can remember my Grandpa talking about the Hanson brothers, I'm not really sure what the unique idea that the 3 men I named added. Everyone has long since passed away and all of it was way before my time.
We planted canola with discers in 1997 and got 45 bpa. sure was different then, cheap seed, no disease or bugs to worry about, sold it for close to $10/bu.

[oldjim]

Hopalong - I understand the Rouleau museum is being dismantled. I talked to a guy a while back who was trying to save some of the things like the early diskers.

Sumdumguy - there was a segment on Prairie Farm Report a few years back of a couple guys in Sask who pulled an air tank behind a set of diskers as you suggested. I'm not sure where they were located but I recall they were using White tractors. The seed boxes had been removed from the diskers.