Under the environment of protection ploughing, this research designed a kind of test bench on which the sweep and tilt angles of disc coulter can be adjusted precisely in order to study the working performance of different kinds of passive disc coulter: general disc coulter, big ripple disc coulter, notched disc coulter, etc. Simultaneously, this research did four factors and three levels of orthogonal tests by using the factors of the type, velocity, sweep angle, and tilt angle of disc coulter and the evaluation indices of cutting rate and traction resistance. The optimal combination of parameters was achieved through orthogonal tests. Besides, the optimal combination of parameters was repeated verification tests. Fewer factors and levels were studied in this test. And it would take a longer time to do the test if we did a comprehensive test. Therefore, it was a reasonable choice of the orthogonal test. The principle of orthogonal tests was the use of scientific methods to s