Weaving sabre tine user thread

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
Do any of you chaps have many stones and does it bring them to the surface? With the ground being firm after drilling they can't easily be rolled back in? I should add I do pick stones when neccessary.
After the first autumn drilling season with the tine drill, we see quite a few flints brought up, smaller ones rolled, big ones hand carried to hedge bottom. I would hope after a couple of years we will have eliminated most of the big ones.
 

DieselRob

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BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Do any of you chaps have many stones and does it bring them to the surface? With the ground being firm after drilling they can't easily be rolled back in? I should add I do pick stones when neccessary.
I have a lot of stone here, the weaving pulled a few big 1s up but nothing compared to the claydon did with its leading tine, I’m hoping the big 1s will be picked off in the first few years and the small 1s will be tapped back in with the rollers
 

DieselRob

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
First day out with my sabre tine today, drilling beans in to ex stubble turnip ground. 30-40mm of cap but lovely soil underneath, really impressed with how it put them in.
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Jmakey

New Member
I’m contemplating buying a sabretine how many acres are people getting out of the legs ? At 52£ a leg they are quite expensive to change .
 

DieselRob

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BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Our sabre as just passed the 1000ac mark and there’s no wear on the leg at all, think it will take some wearing out to be honest. It’s very cheap to run that’s for sure compared to a combi.
What about covering harrows? In the space of 8/10ac I experienced some very excessive wear on the rear row, can’t come up with an explanation for it at the moment
 

DieselRob

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
All still ok, probably do autumn sowing amd need changing, a lot to do with how you run them keep them in an upright position and the tine flat to the ground they will last longer.
Yes that’s how I had try to run them, set in the middle hole as advised by Weaving. Just odd how the wear happened quite quickly, makes me wonder if something had changed but can’t work it out. They aren’t cheap to replace at £17 each, anyone know if they’re available as non genuine from Pan Anglia/ Spaldings etc?
 

alomy75

Member
Well over 1000ac and wear is negligible...but we are on mostly non-abrasive land. I did once pop off one of the tungsten tiles on a rogue brick in my first season; but Weaving replaced that for me very quickly FOC. That tine soon started wearing very quickly! As for following harrow; I use non-genuine vaderstad ones off a rapid where possible; very good, and cheap. Not sure whether you could lash one onto a sabretine though...
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
I have got a bit of ware on the bottom of mine but I was drilling direct into some concrete like clay last week trying to find a bit of moisture but still more than happy with everything it does. It is such a versatile tine
 

Bob lincs

Member
Arable Farmer
Our tines are showing very little wear but the seed tubes are wearing fast . We are now experimenting with some different tubes we are making that are 30m
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m longer and hardly any wider than the tine itself . The idea being that we will be able run the tines shallower .
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
Like the look of them, have found this spring in the Clays it blows it to the bottom of the tine so it’s a bit deep then if you raise the tine it blows on the top which is too shallow. So as discussed on the pm these look a good compromise
 

ConanPB

Member
Could you weld a 'landslide" onto the back of the tine so it went under the seed tube to interrupt the seeds flow and stop it reaching the bottom of the slot ?
 

Bob lincs

Member
Arable Farmer
@Bob lincs are you working with Weaving on these seed tubes or is it your own design? It looks like your seed tube will encourage seed further down in to the seed slot which I find is the downside to the current design
No not with Weavings these are my own design . We find that having to run the tines deeper than we would like some seed does end up in the bottom but we’re hoping with these tubes the tine can be run shallower and it won’t be a problem .
 

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