- Location
- Chipping Norton
Fair enough - if you can get it to go through chopped straw and cover then brilliant, I stand corrected but I am aware of people who couldn't get it to cope with chopped straw, and at Groundswell, by their own admission, it wouldn't go through cover crop and they stopped demoing the machine.It’s most certainly does go through chopped straw see attached.
It’s not going to go through a thick cover crop but that’s no different to our Horsch ST or Sabre Tine. Both blocked up but that’s not the drills as such. It’s the fact they are tines.
Not sure why you think it won’t with either cover crops though. Again that’s not true. This last spring we topped the cover we had drilled from autumn 19 and the Triton planted spring wheat for us. I’m looking at front mounting a topper so I can top and drill in one pass where the soil allows if lighter. Heavier clays will need destroying early in the New Year to get some drying for March drilling but that’s the same for any kind of direct drill. It’s not the drills it’s the type of soil as covers keep them sodden wet, so they need removing to start the drying process.
Our Vos are 3 inch points.
Again I’ll refer you to the attached pic for the Triton soil movement. It’s not like our old Weaving Big Disc or a 750 but it’s impressive for a tine machine. If you set everything deep then yes it’ll move soil similar to that of a Claydon and Mzuri.
Which seeding leg are you running on the Triton?