That's low disturbance, not zero disturbance. Zero means not touched at all.err, hows this for zero disturbance ?
on 333 mm spacing
PS - planting canola ( OSR )
pretty much zero disturbance here as well, apart from the blocked row on the end
when this machine is humming nicely the only way you can find the plant row is from the effect of the heavy chain harrows dragging some stubble
25cm row spacing
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Bit hard to plant any seeds then . . .
Personally, I'd say that WAS zero disturbance myself . . .
Personally, I'd say that WAS zero disturbance myself . . .
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That one is on 250mm spacings.
Zero till, not zero disturbance, to me anyway.
Very much minimal disturbance, but not zero.
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- Bury St Edmunds
12 m looks very good value in comparison to a 6 m. 250 mm rows seems excessively wide. It’s seriously tempting though.
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Lots of work done on wider spacing in US and Oz. All suggest as yield potential increases wider rows have a larger negative impact on yield. Albeit these yields are generally between 2 and 5 t / ha.
over here the organics did do research on row spacing.
soils: black soi. like Ukraine
as they wanted to do row mulching & weeding with harrows they used various row width.
Aiming for a yield potential of 10t/ha wheat there was no yield sacrifice up to a row spacing of 250mm. since Vaderstad with the Seed Hawk has proven in northern Germany that 10 t/ha is with 250mm spacing possible the topic of row spacing has lost it's big arguments.
York-th.
soils: black soi. like Ukraine
as they wanted to do row mulching & weeding with harrows they used various row width.
Aiming for a yield potential of 10t/ha wheat there was no yield sacrifice up to a row spacing of 250mm. since Vaderstad with the Seed Hawk has proven in northern Germany that 10 t/ha is with 250mm spacing possible the topic of row spacing has lost it's big arguments.
York-th.
What HP do you recon is needed? Looking at converting a co8 to Metcalf points
250 will be fine I would have thought
alomy75
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Really???! Cripes
Steevo
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alomy75
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Yeah that looks a bit more reasonable
Thanks Steevo. That's very similar to an 8m Rapid that is more compact in size.
240 on our VOS co6 conversion ............ often wish we had bought and converted a co12, tractor would cope I think
slow and wide is better than faster and narrow with tines IME
Having run a 12m sprinter I think 240hp would be a bit too much of an ask!
would be on the limit for sure but if just a tool bar and front hopper as our co6 has ended up maybe posible
8m or even 9m would be no problem, 240hp is overkill for our 6m setup even on the hilly bits
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Quite a bit extra weight going 6 to 8
Have you considered Bourgault VOS. The design and the where the Carbide is placed means this system is less HP hungry.