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Its doing a very nice job for a simple machine. Do you ever have any problems useing it as a direct drillIt's a Kverneland Tineseeder with a DF2 front tank.
Its doing a very nice job for a simple machine. Do you ever have any problems useing it as a direct drillIt's a Kverneland Tineseeder with a DF2 front tank.
Its doing a very nice job for a simple machine. Do you ever have any problems useing it as a direct drill
well done, cheap way of getting crop into the groundIt's not perfect by any means, I've only started using it last autumn as a direct drill due to the weather. Had cracking crops this year so doing the lot as a planned operation, just finished today.
Trash management is key, no long wheat stubbles, rake to spread straw and chaff about and patience for ground conditions to be right. I have modified the seed boots to improve placement.
Ironically I guess it may have been ok with the moore this year (?) but I guess you need to get a bit of confidence back etc.
Yeah, after osr and beans no problem for sure, but can`t see how to establish anything with the Moore in chopped wheat- or oat-straw, should have pulled the stripper out for that, which is a bit of a worry with wheat....
Was surprised today, where all the straw from wheat and oats is gone - seems the worms like the chopper rather than the stripper.....
I believe that we have colder weather in the northern Europe than you guys on the big island in the sea I tend to belive that we have even a bit warmer weather than Hartwig, while we are close to sea aswell, but more north than him. Hartwig, you crops look good!Isn't the 6th of september very early for barley/wheat? I wouldn't be able to go that early.
It's a Kverneland Tineseeder with a DF2 front tank.
No they are still at 12.5Cm spacing. I used to think the same as you until I tried it, if the stubble is attached it copes with a lot more than you would think. Shaving the stubble does help though in the overlap areas.
The reason they bung in high trash cultivated ground is because it's all loose and gets raked into a bloody great heap.
Give it a go somewhere, you might be surprised.
I believe that we have colder weather in the northern Europe than you guys on the big island in the sea I tend to belive that we have even a bit warmer weather than Hartwig, while we are close to sea aswell, but more north than him. Hartwig, you crops look good!
Thanks - will give it go - nothing to loose I guess.
This is some wheat sown after spring oats straw chopped with GEN 400 coulters so far very pleased with what is growingSome pic here taken today, I have to say that this is the first "normal weather"-season after 3 wet autumns, so all crops went in rather good and it was the first time since starting DDing I was able (and brave enough) to follow the rule of thumb to do autumn-drilling 2 weeks earlier than conventional - at least the weather lastet 3 days long dry then to turn into wet for 2 weeks then which set me back to normal drilling dates. But most of the winter-barley got in early, that was most important !
The winter-barley after OSR, drilled 6th september into shallow rotovated stubbles :
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Winter wheat after oats, drilled 20th september :
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Winter wheat after wheat, drilled 21st september:
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Wheat after beans, drilled 24th september:
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All drilled with GEN-coulters and here you see the problem with the weaker tines of the Horsch CO: the coulters are moving aside as the blade is only on one side and I think in this view 2 coulters have matched in one row, leaving a double row (no, it`s not a tramline!) ...... !? So really looking forward for the new GEN 400-coulters for next year which will hopefully be better in some ways.