Here's mine.........would you leave it or try to make a device to put 1 row in?
Iv'e drilled approx 100 acres like this out of 420
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How you gonna fix that then?
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How you gonna fix that then?
Meant to be 24m tramlines, think we must have gone around the headline one too many times.
YorkshireAndrew
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One of these ....
Chae1
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Although it looks bad I d leave it. You won't see any loss of yield, plants will compensate. I once drilled about 5 acres with lots of blocked pipes and couldn't see any difference in yield. It's a true saying if you never do big jobs you never do big fudge ups.Here's mine.........would you leave it or try to make a device to put 1 row in?
Iv'e drilled approx 100 acres like this out of 420
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strip-till-phil
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I was thinking of mounting a Claydon seeding leg & boot on the tractor front linkage in front of the wheels and use our KRM seeder unit with 1 out let............fill it with wheat and get going but wondering if it's worth the hassle
glasshouse
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yes, but easily fixed if its dry.Someone I know was drilling with a 3m combi around the headland so blocked off 1/2 the drill to get his first tramline in at 6m from the hedge . Forget to open it up again - drilled whole field with 1/2 drill working - now that's a misshap .
last yr we got an airpipe mixed up when sowing osr at 30cm spacing. looked like 8m trams.
glasshouse
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if you have nothing else to do, get on with it.I was thinking of mounting a Claydon seeding leg & boot on the tractor front linkage in front of the wheels and use our KRM seeder unit with 1 out let............fill it with wheat and get going but wondering if it's worth the hassle
i would use a quad bike and slug pellet hopper direct into a pipe into a coulter of some sort you can manually lift at the end.
Jon
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- South Norfolk
This is mine, looking down a tramline,'only' 8.5 ha. Four coulters blocked on 6 meter drill. Luckily I'm in the middle of nowhere and no one will see it. Apart from anyone who visits the yard, and of course hot air balloonists, everything airborne I suppose.
Still it looks great across the rows !
Still it looks great across the rows !
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Nearly
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Here's mine.........would you leave it or try to make a device to put 1 row in?
Iv'e drilled approx 100 acres like this out of 420
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@Strip Drill Phil
Quad bike dragging a couple of harrow tines and a 2 litre pop bottle of seed with a hole in.
Didin't someone make a single row 'drill' last year for same job?
I had a loose coulter on 4m accord. It looked straight when lifted up but pushed to the side when running in ground. 4th in from right side. Pics to follow.
YorkshireAndrew
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Yes , he just went over & drilled the missed drill widths .
Goggles
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You see, it's already started! One hint of a f**k up on here and the neighbours are already craning their necks over the hedge for a look!
I think I picked up the word mithering when I worked in Shropshire or Wales. I'm fairly sure it means 'to bother'. Does anyone else use it?
newholland driver
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Had a second hand Kverneland power harrow combi to try did about 100 acres quite liked it till it started growing put in 2 sets of tram lines one on bout 4 then another in bout 5 the box wasn't flashing on bout 5 so never checked whoops guess what the drill went back to the dealer pretty rapid with one very sheepish salesman
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Had this happen to me a while back, so came up with this device.Here's mine.........would you leave it or try to make a device to put 1 row in?
Iv'e drilled approx 100 acres like this out of 420
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Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
could you not see seed falling out of tramlining pipes when they switched over on bout 4? With Amazone can tell they ve switched over if you watch.
glasshouse
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- lothians
The old mf30 was the best, you could see every feedroll and the seed falling down the tube as you drove. If they still made them i would buy one.
YorkshireAndrew
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Agree , we had one , as you say you could see every feed roll turning .
Sandy
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- Aberdeenshire
How can you blame the salesman didn't you check yourself
Sandy
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- Aberdeenshire
is a vaderstad box drill rollers not just a mf 30 copy
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newholland driver
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No it blows the seed back in the hopper so couldn't see checked they were working and shutting off but didn't didn't think to check they were opening again at the right time I always check for blocked coulters each time I fill up just it couldn't of been on bout 5 any time I filled up
Darren
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- Lincolnshire
My old boss did two fields of barley like thatSomeone I know was drilling with a 3m combi around the headland so blocked off 1/2 the drill to get his first tramline in at 6m from the hedge . Forget to open it up again - drilled whole field with 1/2 drill working - now that's a misshap .
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