Yeah, I've always just heard it referred to colloquially as a "disc", and you use it to "disc a field". In some cases this is a common second step after a first step that plows much, much more aggressively and deeply. I don't know what kind of soil that is and what he plants though, so that first step might be unnecessary.

I don't think it'd be wise to prepare the field for planting and clear the field of mines in the same step, though, at any rate. It would be extremely inappropriate to feel confident that a single pass of your implement has successfully cleared every last mine. When its life on the line, you want near-certainty.

So, he's gonna go over his field with that thing many, many times, not just one. If he's smart. Which means the disc is for mines, not to prepare the field for crops.

My thinking anyway, I don't actually know anything about mine clearing. I do know some about farming though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My thinking anyway, I don’t actually know anything about mine clearing. I do know some about farming though.

I'm in a very same boat, I've been sitting my share on a tractor cabin turning ground around and smoothing it, but our fields don't luckily (now, at 1940s it might've been a bit different at the eastern border) have mines to worry about.