- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
We must have heavier or rougher seed beds than you, as when we had an IH drill it was a full time job changing leaf springs, either that or the tines moved on the clamps.
Drilling anyone?
- Thread starter kevindb880
- Start date
Sounds like you may have had one with the ordinary spring tines and not stump jumps which are positively located on the floats between twin lugs and not by clamps.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Great wee tub for what I need, I don't think you'd get a better machine for a 3 metre disc drill either, especially on duals.
Put in 1240kg of seed across 15+ha and put 56.6 litres in the tank after
Seeds just away, 75mm in past 12 hours will do them some good
another 75mm to come over the next 48 hours forecast
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Lack of shot-holing is my first impression!
Perhaps you don't get them that far south!
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I never take mine off! We've a front box rear power harrow, coulter bar too.
Once its on, thats it for springtime, probably 6 weeks.
We're lucky we have plenty tractors.
SilliamWhale
Member
I've got some Skyfall to go in. Only 8 acres - advice please - would you go sooner or wait until I think it will actually have a chance of getting up and away ie late feb? Bearing in mind we're not a winter drilling county anyway
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Personally, I would wait til it has a better chance, but you know your land.
Seed and drilling are the same price regardless?
SilliamWhale
Member
The only element of this being a "winter" cereal. Don't want to end up doing it in Novemeber
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Hmmm. Sounds very similar to a few of the local punters (and there are only a few, it's livestock land here) a few months back
Probably similar to your situation, too dry for too long and then when it remembered about raining we had 250mm just like that, and it kept coming.
Some mauled it in, some even got the ploughing contractors in; but by early summer you wouldn't know one from t'other unless you got out and looked at plant populations.
The early-drilled stuff was much thinner, but the weighbridge tells the full story
Rape seems to be this season's colour, just to add a little salt, there is rape all over the show; I think basically everyone with a combine is growing lots of rape this year.
Probably similar to your situation, too dry for too long and then when it remembered about raining we had 250mm just like that, and it kept coming.
Some mauled it in, some even got the ploughing contractors in; but by early summer you wouldn't know one from t'other unless you got out and looked at plant populations.
The early-drilled stuff was much thinner, but the weighbridge tells the full story
Rape seems to be this season's colour, just to add a little salt, there is rape all over the show; I think basically everyone with a combine is growing lots of rape this year.
Will it vernalise? How close to the coast are you?
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
What is the exact criteria for Vernalisation ,Brisel?
Have some Crispin here thinking having a go next 3 or 4 days.
SilliamWhale
Member
1/2 mile
- Location
- West Suffolk
Just thinking if late drilled WW doesn’t vernalise is there any use for what ever does grow? Ie biodigester?
I guess so. My question is does anyone know where I can find old RLs to look up latest safe sowing dates for varieties no longer on the list?
Will this be of some help to you, Flat 10?
https://ahdb.org.uk/rlarchive
Interesting to see that Claire was (End Feb) from 2004 until 2014 when, for no apparent reason, it became (Mid Feb). only to become (End Feb) again in 2015, only to become (Mid Feb) again in 2017, after which it was delisted.
No doubt the HGCA will somewhere have published an adequate explanation for all this potential confusion - as soon as I can find it I'll post it up here without delay.
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I would respectfully suggest, being a few days at least, pessimistic with those dates, as it's a pretty mild winter, and seems to be continuing that way, i get the feeling that average temps are up fair bit with regards to things like vernilisation
being a few days at least, pessimistic with those dates, as it's a pretty mild winter, and seems to be continuing that way, i get the feeling that average temps are up fair bit with regards to things like vernilisation 
- Location
- Lincolnshire
With the weather so far has anything growing vernalised yet? only had 2 light frosts here.. roads gritted about 6 times.