I believe watership down were one of the first to buy a Kuhn back in 2000, they still have it as far as I know... Very good drill and versatile stillGosh.. makes my Kuhn look cheap to run... £770 for set of front discs which do about 2000 acres and a set of rear discs cost £1320 and they do about 3000 acres a set ..about 82p/acre throw in another £1000 for a few bearings and covering harrow tines and we still at much more than a pound/acre...
Mzuri 3m Pro til
- Thread starter SimonD
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- Location
- Nr Malvern... SW Worcestershire
Great drill when planting cereals into break crops (ie: wheat after beans, OSR, linseed, etc) and OK when soil is friable and if the straw has been baled. But no good when it gets wet (soil plastic) and hopeless when trying to drill into freshly chopped cereal straw especially when wet (OSR after w wheat..). We use a "tine" for OSR, Beans and cover crops if we have chopped straw.
- Location
- Nr Malvern... SW Worcestershire
Some..but we are getting the straw replaced with FYM.
Jock
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- Location
- Central Scotland
I think you may be right, strip till gaining popularity, increase in price!Yes.
The power of this place, supply and demand etc
Always an alternative.
http://m.mascus.co.uk/agriculture/u...gle&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=(organic)
http://m.mascus.co.uk/agriculture/u...gle&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=(organic)
LoamRanger
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
@ all using Mzuri. I was informed by a Mz pro til trailed user that while drilling in damp conditions the middle press wheels block up, whereas a Sumo DTS has none so was able to keep drilling (in his same field). Any comments. Bit off subject
cosmagedon
Member
- Location
- North Wales
I was drilling into maize stubble this year, it was extremely wet going. The day we foraged it was the first dry day in weeks but I had no trouble with any of the wheels blocking up. They were solid with mud but kept on turning.
I have put my tyre presures back up to 30psi, Andrew used to run it around 10 and they would have been even better at self cleaning at this pressure but because I work on banks I found it was leaning to much.
I have put my tyre presures back up to 30psi, Andrew used to run it around 10 and they would have been even better at self cleaning at this pressure but because I work on banks I found it was leaning to much.
That one seems to be permanently on Mascus, or someone is building
They will block up in the awful wet, but proper adjustment of scrapers and running a low tyre pressure helps on snotty clays i found.
@ all using Mzuri. I was informed by a Mz pro til trailed user that while drilling in damp conditions the middle press wheels block up, whereas a Sumo DTS has none so was able to keep drilling (in his same field). Any comments. Bit off subject
They will block up in the awful wet, but proper adjustment of scrapers and running a low tyre pressure helps on snotty clays i found.
SilliamWhale
Member
That one on mascus is a 5m width no folding by the looks of things - not very handy!
Ravestar
Member
Different hopper, metering system, rear axle, pipe work. But it is folding
- Location
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Have a look here:@ all using Mzuri. I was informed by a Mz pro til trailed user that while drilling in damp conditions the middle press wheels block up, whereas a Sumo DTS has none so was able to keep drilling (in his same field). Any comments. Bit off subject
http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/mzuri-being-tested-in-wet-clay.33606/
I didn't block the middle wheels unless I got some uncut bean stalks from a tramline at the wrong angle.
warksfarmer
Member
Its to expensive. Undoubtedly both good drills if your wanting to do the strip till thing but I am not convinced there are any savings to be made due to the volume of soil that is moved so should the drills themselves command this kind of price?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
At 10k/m I was very interested, at 11k it was getting worse but now at 13k/m for a drill to put a seed in the soil I can do a hell of an amount of ploughing and combi drilling with existing machinery, unfortunately Mr Mzuri and Mr Sumo you're both pricing yourselves out of my market
warksfarmer
Member
If you have soil to do it then ploughing and combi drilling by contractors on their fuel is £40/acre around here. Job done and you bury weeds rather than chitting them on the surface again with a strip till drill.