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I am wanting a disc to put in food plots. I would imagine my plots to be a half acre +/- with a total of three to four with more as I get more areas opened up. Being that I am 3 mile from my property, I would rather hook it up to the 3pt and carry it instead of trailering.

I will be using my mahindra 4110 with 4wd

We have a lot of 6-7ft discs on Craigslist. ~$600-$700

What are the pros and cons of the single vs dual vs offset ?

What kind of weight do you need to sink the blades in ?

I don't have much experience with small discs, but generally, with discs, the heavier the better. For your application have you considered a rototiller or rotavator?

I would love a tiller but a used 6-7 ft is quite pricey for the few times it will get used. I don't know what the other implement is. I will have to look it up.

What you want is, out there, finding it, at the right price, is another thing all together. The best of luck!

The Howard Rotavator is the crème de la crème of rototillers. 5' is probably more manageable on that tractor.

Like Richard said, figure out what would be ideal and then bird dog it.

I am looking for a EZ Flow fertilizer spreader. I want to use it for seeding grass in waterways. Scare as hen's teeth, if you are buying, no market selling.

What's unique about the EZ Flow spreader? Have you considered a pendulum type broadcast spreader like the Vicon. They meter very evenly.

I don't know what kind of ground you are dealing with (grassland, fallow cropland, or ?), but since you are in area where there are farmers you might hire one to plow, disc, and cultipack the plots. You or someone can seed and fertilize it with a broadcast spreader, and finish it off with the cultipacker. My experience with small discs wasn't great, and, as mentioned above, it takes a lot of weight to break up ground that has had anything growing on it.

I use a roto tiller to put in food plots.

It tears it up..

As to a disk, a tandem will do more with one pass. A single will work in wetter soil. I hauled an old disk to the iron yard that would have done what I think you want. If you don't spend much, you could try a disk, and something else next time. I've never ran a tiller over anything but a garden, I'd think rock would be hard on a tiller.

Stantdm has good advice, if someone is willing to do the work at a fair price.

Brian, we used a neighbor's spreader years back. It drops the seed close to the ground, wind is not much of a factor.
Before they used numbers at auction sales, I had one bought for $2.50. The auctioneer must have mistaken me for someone else when he knocked it off, so I left it sit.

Many years ago, I had a 3 point hitch disc on a 40 hp tractor that I had at the time. It would do a decent job if the ground had been plowed It was not good at working up hard ground, because it lacked the weight to do so. I like a rototiller for working up ground, as they are pretty much a one pass tool, but mine is only a 4 foot one that I bought for use in the garden. For the food plots that I put in,I use a disc, either a 10 foot or a 14 foot one to work up the ground, then come back with a cultipacker.

When it comes to working ground heavier is better. There is an art to preparing a good seedbed.

Go to some farm sales I have seen small disks go for iron price.....

That is a good idea. I will start looking at the auctions. I used to go to them all the time but when prices started getting stupid and they drug them out all day, I stopped going.

Nice thing is the old stuff usually sells early...

In my area old discs are sitting in fence rows or scab ground all over. I'm talking 10'-12' small "horse disc" stuff. No tires or anything, that is too modern.
Anyway, I have bought them for little (-$100) to nothing ($0).
Alot of growers are glad to get them out of the way.
Since they don't move well :), I just put one at each spot I want to work and leave it.
Work great behind my 47hp tractor.

Woo hoo, found a new toy. 6ft international disc $300 Tandem offset Greasable fittings