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  1. Sambo

    Maize 24

    Drilling faith atm at 42k/acre. Still got a full pallet of it to put in, then some earlier variety.
  2. Sambo

    Hitting the grass 23

    The last few days. 250acres picked up in 11hrs today, ranging from waist deep grass to almost nonexistent on the autumn ressed headlands. Took 12 merger hrs to go over it all.
  3. Sambo

    Hitting the grass 23

    Have a set of 2nd hand pottinger x8's at work for 1000/1200 acres a year, wouldn't ever drop down to 2 mowers willingly.
  4. Sambo

    Alternative ways to pay for forager.

    Then it's finding the ones to drive it well.
  5. Sambo

    FieldBee 40% off

    Do the fieldbee require an ongoing subscription to work on rtk?
  6. Sambo

    Maize drill mounted on power harrow

    Its is, bought it after seeing one at lamma last year. Worked really well fit us, our plates got splayed out on some of our stonier ground so will have to be taken off and strengthen and the ram mounts for the packer ram have bent too which we will strengthen when we do the plates. Tried it in...
  7. Sambo

    Maize drill mounted on power harrow

    Thus is what we've done thus year. Had the maize drill mounted on a strip tiller last year bur don't really have the conditions for it this year. Added the fertiliser too this year. Last years maize drilling set up
  8. Sambo

    Min-till maize??

    We have sumoed/ sumoing our maize ground, then powerharrow with a mounted maize drill. It's drying really well on top but for the most part it ideally wants moving again as the powerharrow is pulling too much wet up.
  9. Sambo

    Maize 24

    All set to go now. Drilling faith at 42k seeds/acre with 30kg/acre of dap.
  10. Sambo

    KTwo gone bust?

    Along with the muckspreaders most likely.
  11. Sambo

    Maize 24

    Made a start ready for drilling
  12. Sambo

    All things Dairy

    Ferrying to a holding tank and umbilical or spreading themselves?
  13. Sambo

    Maize 24

    The start of our maize campaign is levelling last years ruts out. Along with mounting the maize drill on the powerharrow, hopefully speeding the job up and not needing to work multiple fields infront for the contractor if its catchy weather. On the flip side if its a dry spring it will help...
  14. Sambo

    Advice needed

    Doing parts at a time will help me get my head around it all as electrical engineering isn't my strong point. We already have a ez 250 so looking to go the next step mainly for drilling and mowing. We're in-between derby and stoke which looks abit of a dead spot fir rtk. What's the cost involved...
  15. Sambo

    Advice needed

    Thanks for the reply. It will be going onto a mf 7718s. With what has been said previously i ll be drilling with marker arms for this spring time as we won't have the time to set it up really before I'll need it. We will get one set up, with a steering valve, and running in the summer I think...
  16. Sambo

    Advice needed

    Very valid point, if I'm doing the steering what's the difference between following a line on a screen or in the soil.
  17. Sambo

    Advice needed

    Evening all, at work, we are looking for an accurate guidance, rtk or close, as we are drilling our own maize with a 3m powerharrow with a mounted maize drill. The tractors aren't guidance ready but a new one in the future will be so will be following a lightbar for now. We already have a...
  18. Sambo

    Massey Ferguson 8s

    It's spent most of its life carting digestive, silage and maize.
  19. Sambo

    Massey Ferguson 8s

    Local contractor has just traded one in with similar hrs, mainly been used on haulage work. Tanking, silage, maize.
  20. Sambo

    Front tank to trailer cultivator

    18k for a new weaving tank on its own now.
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