Triton drill

Anyone tried/seen one?

There’s an article about it in this months Farmers Guide

I read that article today and basically it’s no different to any other drill on the market. Drilling later reduces BG irrelevant of drill colour or brand. The Triton itself does not reduce BG, but the drilling date will.

And as for making 3 passes as a cultivator, again any drill can do that.

I’m not quite sure why they developed it to be honest!
 

martian

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BASE UK Member
Location
N Herts
We were hoping they were coming to Groundswell to demo. I was very interested to see what the drill does. They've gone a bit quiet on us, so who knows?
 

Andy26

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northants
The seed boot looks interesting and I believe it has some kind firming time running behind, but not sure, I’ve not yet looked at the article
Looks like there is a firming tine at the back that runs between the seeding tines mounted at the front. The firming tine is tapered to press sideways, presumably this helps to close the slot left by the seeding tine, this extra row of tines explains the relative high HP required versus other direct tine based drills.
 

Shutesy

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Arable Farmer
As per quite a lot of drill videos from various manufacturers there is not much in the way of what the crop looks like once its up (if it comes up). Triton have got one video of a tiny patch of wheat coming up in what looks like a normal cultivated seedbed so not much of a challenge. I would be very interested to see what the patches in the videos above look like come April time!
 

Spencer

Member
Location
North West
As above, they keep mentioning what conditions it will work in and showing videos of drilling in mud. Never see a time lapse or follow up video of crop! Might not even have seed in hopper for all we know watching video..
 

General-Lee

Member
Location
Devon
As above, they keep mentioning what conditions it will work in and showing videos of drilling in mud. Never see a time lapse or follow up video of crop! Might not even have seed in hopper for all we know watching video..
You’d of thought they’d scratch some out and show rather than say they’re there.
 

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