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Disk or Disc- as in disc(k) harrow?

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    Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 5:49am
I"ve seen this spelling both ways for years.
 
Is this a regional, country or paint color thing?
 
I have green books with k, orange books with c.
 
 Founders are from different countries
 


Edited by JoeO(CMO) - 28 Oct 2019 at 6:07am




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I suppose it depends on what colour or color they are ?? hehehe...
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Folks,
I used both but disk looks more robust, so maybe we should use that for the field work and the disc for the computer. If you google it you dont get Allis disks in the back forty!
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Looks like disc for a harrow or brake rotor. Seems to be common usage.

https://writingexplained.org/disc-or-disk-difference
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I don't think it's regional. Just semantics. Locally whenever I've searched, I use both words in the search feature. Get about the same number either way. And of course along with the results I'm looking for are both spellings for compact DISC and DISK offerings, vehicles for sale with DISC and DISK brakes, on and on. It's like when you read a post and the writer states: To many, which would of course imply they're addressing "many" people, but they meant to spell, "TOO." You get the picture.
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It depends if it's a verb or noun. Go out and disk corn stalks with the disc! lol!
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Originally posted by injpumpEd injpumpEd wrote:

It depends if it's a verb or noun. Go out and disk corn stalks with the disc! lol!

I like this...
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Disk= a piece of farm equipment, and what you do with it (the ONE and ONLY time you spell it with a "k", IMO)
Disc= a shape, and anything with that shape i.e. disc brake, compact disc, discus

Where it gets real interesting is when you're replacing a disc blade on your disk LOLWink


Edited by Bill_MN - 28 Oct 2019 at 1:28pm
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I spell it "disc", because that's how it's written in the A-C manuals. 
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Tractorhouse and Machinery Pete call them disks. We have always called it a disk.

The technical term may actually be "disk harrow".......which on a regional basis seems to be referred to as either a disk or harrow.

But do an Internet search for "Farm Disk" and select images and large disks will appear. Do a search for "disk harrow" and most of what shows up will be smaller disks....10 feet or less. Do a search for "harrow" and about 1 image in 5 will be of a disk.....almost all of them less than 10 feet. More like 5 to 6 feet. Deer plot and garden size.

Now what about gray or grey?


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All I know is my grade school English teacher is turning over in her grave.
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I like Crestons answer the best so far.Wink And we ant in english class so I can do as I want to this super mixed up mess of a language  LOL



There be plows moldboard or chisel. Then you got harrows,be they peg, disc, or spring.


Edited by Ray54 - 29 Oct 2019 at 2:49pm
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