Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

[Fish]

Ok some answers,
The front tool bar is a Quivogne SCD, and when not pulling the seeders we hang a Guttler simplex packer off the back to make a very low disturbance subsoiler, for want of a better word, although we never go deeper than around 15-20cm.
Filling the seeder hoppers is abit of a pain, to drill 4ha I had to fill up 3 times, which takes about 5min.

I'm sure it would work fine for maize, that's what we used to drill with the old stanhay in the 70s,80s and 90s when we had cattle, and I'm also sure the system would work for sugar beet and rape, but not with the stanhay as it's a belt planter, you need a vac planter.
We have a few ideas on how to improve the system and up grade the planter, just need some time in the workshop, the machine you see in the photo is the mark 3 version any way.

 

[Badshot]

Top to bottom second wheat just coming, then First wheat after rape and bottom one with trees is actually one that had a pass with the vari disc to incorporate big lumps of strawy muck

 

[Clive]

Ok some answers,
The front tool bar is a Quivogne SCD, and when not pulling the seeders we hang a Guttler simplex packer off the back to make a very low disturbance subsoiler, for want of a better word, although we never go deeper than around 15-20cm.
Filling the seeder hoppers is abit of a pain, to drill 4ha I had to fill up 3 times, which takes about 5min.

I'm sure it would work fine for maize, that's what we used to drill with the old stanhay in the 70s,80s and 90s when we had cattle, and I'm also sure the system would work for sugar beet and rape, but not with the stanhay as it's a belt planter, you need a vac planter.
We have a few ideas on how to improve the system and up grade the planter, just need some time in the workshop, the machine you see in the photo is the mark 3 version any way.

how do you cope with bean and wheat seed rates with those small hoppers ?

 

[Fish]

how do you cope with bean and wheat seed rates with those small hoppers ?

We only use it for planting w beans, the hoppers hold about 24kg each, 3 fills for just over 4ha. Takes about 5min per fill, gives you a chance to check the seeders are still running they are after all 37 years old
24'' row @ 5" spacing.

 

[Clive]

We only use it for planting w beans, the hoppers hold about 24kg each, 3 fills for just over 4ha. Takes about 5min per fill, gives you a chance to check the seeders are still running they are after all 37 years old
24'' row @ 5" spacing.

90kg / ha ? !! That's seriously low seed rate for beans, we drill more than double that rate

What yields are you getting ?

 

[Fish]

Av around just over 5t/ha
Range 3.9-6.7t/ha

 

[Badshot]

Gallant on the hill today, second wheat.

 

[green giant]

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Gallant on the hill today, second wheat.

Hill

 

[Badshot]

Hill

I'm at the top and looking down, I tell you what it's a big hill compared to the marsh, just not what most would call a hill

 

[green giant]

I was looking fer mole hills now I look at it I can see a steady slope

 

[Andrew K]

We did this Mulika spring wheat direct with a Tineseeder, worked well.

 

[Badshot]

I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I look out of my bedroom window

 

[average farmer]

These pics really make me wonder why I'm pissing around with a leading tine, drilled a few acres with a working tine shear bold broken into carrired land this backend. I'll see if I can pick it out in the spring or when walking the field this winter.

 

[nick channer]

Have had numerous shear bolts go on claydon..
Think I've got through over 40 on 550 acres.
Needless to say I don't always notice till I've drilled fair few acres.
Everything is up 4 inches high and couldn't pick a single row out with no front tine not in work..

 

[Clive]

Av around just over 5t/ha
Range 3.9-6.7t/ha

That's impressive from that seed rate - much lower than most would drill beans

 

[rob1]

Have had numerous shear bolts go on claydon..
Think I've got through over 40 on 550 acres.
Needless to say I don't always notice till I've drilled fair few acres.
Everything is up 4 inches high and couldn't pick a single row out with no front tine not in work..

I did a bit with a couple of tines higher than the rest to see if there was any difference, cant see it at the moment but wonder if when its wet in the winter it may show, I hope as the soil structure improves that we can reduce the depth or remove them, may try a disc instead to help cut through trash,residues etc

 

[Badshot]

A few plants I pulled on a walk just now, random ones. Extrovert, DD on 27th August

 

[Devon James]

Nice to see the crops are moving away nicely. Excalibur planted second week of september. My updates to drill have worked which is pleasing, but also this illustrates the value of decision making. The farmer chose not to mess in crops last autumn avoiding failures. Spring crops went in well and this rape followed it. No need to blame the kit if the conditions are useless!

 

[Oscar]

Hi DJ, what up dates did you do to the drill compared to when new last year ??What following harrow have you used as last year you had a couple options.

 

[Devon James]

Hi OD. I can now run the press wheels and following harrow together which is a massive help to finish the job off by giving adjustments that can be made according to soil conditions.
Slug pellet applicator on board so no delay in getting pellets on.
Improvement in the way the seed now leaves the outlet. The A shares can run deeper as I have made up some coulters that shoot the seed backwards into the flow of soil rather than forwards and below it. Really useful when fields are tight after harvest, like last year, as the a shares can run deeper to create tilth without putting the seed too deep.
With all of that, as im sure you would have seen, soil conditions were more suitable to grow crops in after the dry summer, and being able to get drilling at end of aug/beginning of sep.
Continual improvement is what its about so more ideas for next year.