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How you getting on with the mounted GD? We’re about to get one?Drilling linseed todayView attachment 903689
Simon helped me set it up. He also took quite a bit of drone footage which will be found on his website shortly.
How you getting on with the mounted GD? We’re about to get one?Drilling linseed todayView attachment 903689
Simon helped me set it up. He also took quite a bit of drone footage which will be found on his website shortly.
So far so good. I am drilling Linseeed into W Barley stubbles.How you getting on with the mounted GD? We’re about to get one?
So far so good. I am drilling Linseeed into W Barley stubbles.
What has really surprised me is how well it is drilling into the heavier land. The earlier dry weather followed by the rain has seems to have left it in good condition and friable. The discs are penetrating really well and the slot is covering well too. This has allowed me to drill at up to 9k. I recon I could drill 20ha a day quite happily.
This year has also played into my hands, because the Winter Barley stubbles greened up nicely without the need for a cover crop. Especially with Fools Parsley. I Roundup’d them off a week ago, but it either is slow at killing it or there has been a hell of a flush in a week. It drills through it no trouble whatsoever.
The one thing that I’m not wanting to do is bother with cover-crops. Which I will get way with this year.
W Barley will follow the Wheat, which is most of the area I have ploughed and will Combi-drill, but have left some for the GD to drill.
@Warnesworth has told me that DD is more likely to struggle as a 2nd wheat - Ours will all be W Barley.
IIRC, @SilliamWhale also said Barley can be a struggle.
Our Wheat will follow what was left of the Rape and was replaced with Spring Oats. Hopefully most of this will be GD’d, provided that we don’t make too much of a mess harvesting the Oats.
What size tractor is it on.So far so good. I am drilling Linseeed into W Barley stubbles.
What has really surprised me is how well it is drilling into the heavier land. The earlier dry weather followed by the rain has seems to have left it in good condition and friable. The discs are penetrating really well and the slot is covering well too. This has allowed me to drill at up to 9k. I recon I could drill 20ha a day quite happily.
This year has also played into my hands, because the Winter Barley stubbles greened up nicely without the need for a cover crop. Especially with Fools Parsley. I Roundup’d them off a week ago, but it either is slow at killing it or there has been a hell of a flush in a week. It drills through it no trouble whatsoever.
The one thing that I’m not wanting to do is bother with cover-crops. Which I will get way with this year.
W Barley will follow the Wheat, which is most of the area I have ploughed and will Combi-drill, but have left some for the GD to drill.
@Warnesworth has told me that DD is more likely to struggle as a 2nd wheat - Ours will all be W Barley.
IIRC, @SilliamWhale also said Barley can be a struggle.
Our Wheat will follow what was left of the Rape and was replaced with Spring Oats. Hopefully most of this will be GD’d, provided that we don’t make too much of a mess harvesting the Oats.
190 HP. Overkill but has all the right hydraulics and electrics for the job . Running at 1400 engine rpm.What size tractor is it on.
Ring weaving up....What’s the best price for the replacement gd discs. Atm With out the hub
The Weaving disc prices are with bearings mounted and included.Looked on the web but that can’t be right if a jd 750 disc is around £ 20 how can it be £60 for the big one + best part £40 for the other fairly sure I’ve made a mistake any got the proper prices.
The Weaving disc prices are with bearings mounted and included.
Here are the price for bearings 48£ and complete font/large disc with bearing is 74,85£
And lower inputs.I guess it is all right, but would like the UK price ....
We have to remember that there is no cultivator or plow spare parts and only 5-6 l diesel/ha to establish a crop.
sorry I don’t understand what you meanSlightly annoyingly, I only drilled some of my spring beans with the GD before switching to the tine drill. Having harvested them now and the tine drilled fields had the higher yields and the GD drilled field wasn't the cleanest at harvest either. But then Some of the time drilled fields were horresdous for weeds too.
I dread to think what the running cost of the tine drill is at though, as it regularly breaks 1" pigtail tines.