When George came to set ours up, he warned off excessive tine wear and ripping the seedbeds up if you go too fast, then when we were having troubles with trash flowing through, he suggested going faster. A case of needs must I suppose.
we broke a tine off a couple of days ago, stoney ground. Does seem to make more tilth at higher speeds there is definitely a sweet spot. Dont go too quick in the stoney stuff though!
We try to stick at 6 - 7 kph but it sometimes sneaks up a bit, doesn't help that the other drills a 4m Vaddy rapid that Wil sit at 11k all day.
As it came.
Happily not many stones.
I was told off by a friend for getting too much tilth which when it comes to min drilling into a stale seedbed or dead stubble, has a lot of merit, as there are usually no herbicide options so less disturbance is better...!
My preferred speed is 8-10kph on the "boys land", maybe a tad less on the heavier soil in dry conditions.
We need a minimum of 32mm for the pre em (Bandur) so we go a bit deeper.I was told off by a friend for getting too much tilth which when it comes to min drilling into a stale seedbed or dead stubble, has a lot of merit, as there are usually no herbicide options!
I am never more than 50mm, usually 25mm or less
depth.
trying to make a metering system that deals well with all sizes of seed without having to change anything solid like feed rollers etc is unrealistic ,surely .
sulky metering system is shite compared to the aitcherson one. We've had a sulky drill for many many years now... When the aitcherson one is working it is a lot nicer to use. f**k pushing and pulling those stupid little pins in and out of the plastic wheels on the sulky. Also the hopper is way way too small, half a 500kg bag if you stuff it right full...
yeah ther all very exspensive carp fussy farty end up rusting up under a hedge .... simpleand useful is what i want
Everything is through apart from the last field here, which is very slow.
Could I make this work?
I have found the same problem with the tips breaking off near the top just under the pin holes.Also the new ones don't last very long.I sent photos to simtech and to Fenagri ,and guess what - nothing got done about it.The seed pipes break off or become detached and i can't stop the tramline alarm from coming on every time i lift up and set down again ,nothing got done about it.When it was made the top link pin was not quite straight so the top link chafes at one tide and it pulls the drill to one side slightly. On the plus side it is great drill if i can get my issues sorted that runs well in some less than ideal conditions .I run with a front mounted crimper and have had some good results drilling into cover crops.When it was dry a couple of years ago the front discs would not cut through red clover stalks so i had to get a contractor with a disc drill.I am not knocking the drill but these are my experiences .
Mine is the box drill and the pipe clamps on to a rubber boot, which always seemed wrong to me (nothing solid to clamp to) so I'm thinking of getting some stainless steel pipe to use as an insert, to clamp to.
The scrapers look like a good idea,i have the same problems with the rings blocking up.I have removed every other ring which did help.
