Replacement Horsch tines

Those of you that have changed the standard Horsch duett point have you added in extra legs because without the ‘band sowing effect’ the gaps between rows must be considerable?
 

Aceface

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Location
Lincolnshire
I will start using a new to us Horsch Sprinter soon for the first time, the original Duett openers are in a box and fitted in their place are 10 cm Bourgault openers. I too was concerned about row width but everyone you talk to who has experience of these wide rows say that yield or weed pressure is not affected. On the other hand, my old drill had 26 coulters per 4 metres, the Sprinter, with the 10 cm Bourgaults will have 32 individual rows, but spaced differently.
Without knowing, I would imagine adding extra legs to be difficult to do so evenly so as not to create bottlenecks for straw etc and you would need a bigger seed distribution head to take the extra pipes required.
By coincidence, I spoke to the Pan Anglia man today and he said their most popular replacement coulter for the Horsch Duett was the 5" Dutch opener.
 

T Hectares

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Arable Farmer
Location
Berkshire
Yes so the duett sows two lines per Tine to create the band. If you just sow one line per leg you loose the ‘band’ effect?
I'm using 100mm Borgaults which are a good compromise, they still have a band but move a hell of a lot less soil than a Duett.
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My neighbour has single narrow openers on his Horsch and drills somewhere in the region of 5-6000 acres a year on the 250mm row spacing and the crops look great, Spring Barley is maybe the crop which might suffer the most from being drilled on a wider row but they fill out and look well there...
 
I'm using 100mm Borgaults which are a good compromise, they still have a band but move a hell of a lot less soil than a Duett.
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My neighbour has single narrow openers on his Horsch and drills somewhere in the region of 5-6000 acres a year on the 250mm row spacing and the crops look great, Spring Barley is maybe the crop which might suffer the most from being drilled on a wider row but they fill out and look well there...

They look interesting so how wide is your band?

Can’t decide whether it’s better to stick with duett for maximum soil cover almost broadcast like but knowing your moving lots of soil at seeding OR change the points for less disturbance but at the same time loosing the broadcast look the duetts offer?
 

Northdowns Martin

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Arable Farmer
Location
Snodland kent
4EFF9C22-056D-4E81-9D93-231B4995182E.jpeg Metcalfe came up with these points for a neighbour who has 6m sprinter which had 27cm row spacing. They’ve got a narrow band outlet but still low disturbance. I share a co drill running Gen points, haven’t seen any cereal crops drilled with 5” points yet but have got some put in with 1” and not disappointed with how they look.
 

Longneck

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Mixed Farmer
View attachment 729552 Metcalfe came up with these points for a neighbour who has 6m sprinter which had 27cm row spacing. They’ve got a narrow band outlet but still low disturbance. I share a co drill running Gen points, haven’t seen any cereal crops drilled with 5” points yet but have got some put in with 1” and not disappointed with how they look.

Not sure how well they would work, looks like it’s still the original metcalfe seed tube behind a slightly wider point. Surely all that will do is drop the seed into a narrow row still?
 

clbarclay

Member
Location
Worcestershire
Looks good. What would you say is the best tine/seedboot to get as much coverage (almost broadcast) as possible?
Full width sweep shares and the seed dropping down the back of the legs onto spreader plates tucked behind each sweep. I tried a prototype drill like that about 15 years ago, based on a stubble cultivator with 9" (or possibly wider) sweeps. It was near impossible to find seeds to check the sowing depth (None left on the surface) and about the only way to be sure the seed was there was that it had gone from the hopper. It came up in an even green mat, not even a hint of rows.

The flip side is that it is full width cultivation at drilling.
 
Full width sweep shares and the seed dropping down the back of the legs onto spreader plates tucked behind each sweep. I tried a prototype drill like that about 15 years ago, based on a stubble cultivator with 9" (or possibly wider) sweeps. It was near impossible to find seeds to check the sowing depth (None left on the surface) and about the only way to be sure the seed was there was that it had gone from the hopper. It came up in an even green mat, not even a hint of rows.

The flip side is that it is full width cultivation at drilling.

Dont suppose you have any pictures? as that sounds perfect. I've come to the conclusion that seed coverage is more important than soil disturbance if you are drilling later. This is what we've got so far in the picture as its just the standard set up off a 3 row stagger sprinter. Its only just coming in rows but it still not good enough.
 

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Doggy

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Dont suppose you have any pictures? as that sounds perfect. I've come to the conclusion that seed coverage is more important than soil disturbance if you are drilling later. This is what we've got so far in the picture as its just the standard set up off a 3 row stagger sprinter. Its only just coming in rows but it still not good enough.
That's what I have for sale.They are the same as on a claydon but the leg spacing is 8 inch narrower.if you look on classified ads on Horsh drills there are some pictures of them
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Those of you that have changed the standard Horsch duett point have you added in extra legs because without the ‘band sowing effect’ the gaps between rows must be considerable?

Gives us a 10” row spacing which is perfect imo

No extra legs and I reckon 150hp could probably pull a 6m direct I to stubble
 

clbarclay

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Location
Worcestershire
Dont suppose you have any pictures? as that sounds perfect. I've come to the conclusion that seed coverage is more important than soil disturbance if you are drilling later. This is what we've got so far in the picture as its just the standard set up off a 3 row stagger sprinter. Its only just coming in rows but it still not good enough.
I remember it being something like this diagram. The yellow part was something like 30x5mm strip bolted to the back of the tine and holding the round tube the seed hoses slipped on to. The deflector under the tube and welded to the strip, shown in orange, had a semi circular profile. The orange bit floating to the right shows profile of the deflector viewed from behind.

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