3 point hitch, plows, disc, and tires for small lawn and garden tractors?

Question

I have 20 acres of land behind my house I can use for gardening and small livestock, such as chickens and rabbits. I am a welder by trade and I want to build a 3 point hitch for a 12 HP lawn mower to plow a large garden. I can do the fabracation but I would like to buy the plows and the disc and build the racks for them.
Does any one know where I could buy them and what size I should get?
The mower has 18" x 9.5" on 8" rims. I have enough room to put tires on it up to 24" X whatever, and I can cut the hub off the ones I have now and fab up hubs to fit the axles. Any ideas on where to get the tractor lugged type tires at a good price.
I am disabled and the check is very big so I need the cheapest things I can find that will work.
Hope some one out there can lead me in the rigth direction.
Thanks for the help.

I thank you all for your answers, but it doesn't seem anyone understood the question.
I understand the chance of tranny failure. I am or was a small engine mechanic for several years. I also know how to not punish it too much. I may plow only an inch per pass until I get what I want, and even if I do break it, I only paid $150 for it to start with and can replace it with a a used 18 HP lawn and garden for $300.00.
I admit that a tiller will do a lot better job than a disc, after it has been plowed and I very well may build me an attachment to hook a tiller up to the mower if the disc doesn't work, but I have used disc on a larger tractor in the past, after it was turned and it did well.
As far as the amount of land I want to work, last years garden was about twice the size of the first years. The only thing that slowed me up was being able to till as much as I wanted to.
I need to know where to get what I need at the best price I can get it at.
Thanks for the replies.

Answer 1

There should be some old farms around. They should have some of those old 2 and 3 bottom plows you can pick up cheap. I know we have 4 of the old ones on the farm here. Some PTO and some not.

Answer 2

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3 point hitch, plows, disc, and tires for small lawn and garden tractors?
I have 20 acres of land behind my house I can use for gardening and small livestock, such as chickens and rabbits. I am a welder by trade and I want to build a 3 point hitch for a 12 HP lawn mower to plow a large garden. I can do the fabracation but I would like to buy the plows and the disc and...

Answer 3

Sir, I have an answer that probably is not what you want to hear but I beleive it is the best answer because it is my truth. We have 10 acres and have worked a pretty significant garden in the back for over 10 years. My experience is that a disc behind a tractor does not give the desired results. We have a small John Deere 3520. We bought a 6 foot, 3-point disc. I have two very large concrete pyramids on the disc. If there is substantial grass where I am trying to disc, forget about it, it' not going to work. I have bought a front and rear tine rototiller. The front tine works the best. It's slow but works and was the cheapest item by far. I think that a small pull behind roto tiller may be your best bet for getting useable results. I also suggest limiting the size of the garden unless you have a lot of time to devote in it. If that's the case be patient and persistent. Take small bites and just keep doing it. I think gagrdening is one of the best things in the world that any of us can do. Enjoy.
P.S. We have started planting a lot of flowers in our "vegetable garden" We love to cut them and bring them in. I try to get a variety of flowers that will bloom from early spring and some that bloom into the fall. That way we can have flowers for pretty much a ll of the growing season. It's wonderful.

Answer 4

My answer is that if you do use the lawnmower for plowing, you will end up replacing the lawnmower transmission very soon. Most lawnmower transmission are not designed to handle that heavy of a workload. If the mower was called a Garden tractor, then maybe it would work. Being a dealer and service center for a major lawnmower manufacture, my experience tells me that your 12 horse power lawnmower will not be able the handle the work load for very long. I'm not saying it can't be done, but the risk of a high transmission repair bill is much greater. Search for the terms farm parts or plow parts.

Answer 5

A Farm tractor at full speed might be able to go almost 20 mph and the reason for this is to move the piece of equipment to the land you are wanting to work (plow, till, cultivate,etc.) Once you are working the tractor tilling the soil, etc., it may go as fast as 2 or 3 mph, but it requires a great deal of power to accomplish the tractors tasks, thus the giant wheels and the super low gear ratios. Also the giant wheels allow the tractor to work in wet fields by not allowing it to sink too far.

Answer 6

Ok I used to do this kinda stuff too...Tractor supply usually carrys that or farm & family stores had a catalog. I would consider taking the mower off & using 1 of them as amower & 1 as a tractor. I too am dis abled and the check is NOT very big. Ya may have left out a word. Good luck I'll be watching for ya.

Answer 7

here in Ontario i use a store called tsc they are good and they can be very helpful,i also go to allot of farm auctions and pick things up cheap,you may also want to try a used tractor dealership