Weaving GD user thread

clbarclay

clbarclay

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Worcestershire
tr250 said:
I’m my experience if it’s picking up on the tyres to that extent the disc is smearing so go home or get a tine drill
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I know what you mean, but a lot of the soul here seems to go through a sticky stage as it gets wetter before it will smear.

This is drilling today, no smearing in the slots or trouble with the discs, but the soil is building up and steadily applying the breaks.
 

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jack6480

jack6480

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Staffs
clbarclay said:
I know what you mean, but a lot of the soul here seems to go through a sticky stage as it gets wetter before it will smear.

This is drilling today, no smearing in the slots or trouble with the discs, but the soil is building up and steadily applying the breaks.
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I’ve been drilling like that all last week. Keep kicking it off with the spade and keep going!

next year I will put on the scrapers!
 
clbarclay

clbarclay

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Worcestershire
I stick to the book so far on a 4.8m, 4800 for larger seeds and iirc 3500 for small seeds. I pick somewhere between the two for medium seeds. Not noticed much, if any, coming out of the air bleeds, unless an outlet is blocked.

My tine drill is a converted accord system and was driving the fan at the original seed it was when on a PTO. It was very noisy and putting my hand near the intake, realised that it was blowing some air back out of it, around the side of the impeller. It has half the number of outlets now than it once had. I kept turning down the fan speed till there was a significant step in fan noise. The blow back had almost all gone and it has no trouble at that blowing wheat and beans at that. No air bleeds on that drill though.
 
Two Tone

Two Tone

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Mixed Farmer
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Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
WTF would I want to Plough or Min-till any of this for?
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I estimate probably IRO £75/acre less establishment costs and a busting lot of time.

For sale from this farm shortly:
1 x KV LS95 5 furrow Reversible plough, Number 29 bodies.
1 x Dowdeswell adjustable (up to 3 metres) width Furrow Press.
1 x 3 metre Sumo Trio.
1 x 4 metre Kuhn 4004 Power-Harrow.
1 x 4 metre LC4000 Kuhn Combi-liner system-disc Combi-drill mounted on another Kuhn 4004 PH, Quantron S2 controller.
1 x 6.3 metre Mas-Stig hydraulic folding Cambridge Rolls.
1 x 4 metre SKH Crumbler.
1 x 3 metre set of MF Disc harrows.
1 x pair Alliance 800 wide wheels to fit JCB Fastrac (10 hole centres), 95% tread. No more plough/min-till = no more ruts!
1 x pair Michelin XM 620/70 R42 Stocks Dual wheels with 8 clamps and eyes.
1 x 5 metre set of Ransomes Spring-tines, Hydraulic folding.
1 x 6 metre set of Ransomes mounted folding zig-zag harrows.

None of which now needed thanks to my Weaving GD.
But don’t tell anybody that!
 
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SilliamWhale

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Does it matter anymore how far WalterP is from me?
Two Tone said:
WTF would I want to Plough or Min-till any of this for?
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I estimate probably IRO £75/acre less establishment costs and a busting lot of time.

For sale from this farm shortly:
1 x KV LS95 5 furrow Reversible plough, Number 29 bodies.
1 x Dowdeswell adjustable (up to 3 metres) width Furrow Press.
1 x 3 metre Sumo Trio.
1 x 4 metre Kuhn 4004 Power-Harrow.
1 x 4 metre LC4000 Kuhn Combi-liner system-disc Combi-drill mounted on another Kuhn 4004 PH, Quantron S2 controller.
1 x 6.3 metre Mas-Stig hydraulic folding Cambridge Rolls.
1 x 4 metre SKH Crumbler.
1 x 3 metre set of MF Disc harrows.
1 x pair Alliance 800 wide wheels to fit JCB Fastrac (10 hole centres), 95% tread. No more plough/min-till = no more ruts!
1 x pair Michelin XM 620/70 R42 Stocks Dual wheels with 8 clamps and eyes.
1 x 5 metre set of Ransomes Spring-tines, Hydraulic folding.
1 x 6 metre set of Ransomes mounted folding zig-zag harrows.

None of which now needed thanks to my Weaving GD.
But don’t tell anybody that!
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Your flyin' !

I still cambridge roll out of habit really and it makes me feel good about bruising willowherb.
My dowdeswell has been in the shed for 12 years and my dual wheels went on ebay ages ago.

Glad your getting on well (y)

I have to go back to shallow soil movement for oilseed rape here - I've been beat too many times now
 
tr250

tr250

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Location
Northants
SilliamWhale said:
Your flyin' !

I still cambridge roll out of habit really and it makes me feel good about bruising willowherb.
My dowdeswell has been in the shed for 12 years and my dual wheels went on ebay ages ago.

Glad your getting on well (y)

I have to go back to shallow soil movement for oilseed rape here - I've been beat too many times now
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I’m the same with rolling I think it makes a good seed to soil contact levels the top for pre em and seals the seed in the slot and excess water out so it doesn’t rot. We’ve still got all our machines which seems a waste but we use them every year for ditch spoil drain tramline levelling etc
 
Two Tone

Two Tone

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
SilliamWhale said:
Your flyin' !

I still cambridge roll out of habit really and it makes me feel good about bruising willowherb.
My dowdeswell has been in the shed for 12 years and my dual wheels went on ebay ages ago.

Glad your getting on well (y)

I have to go back to shallow soil movement for oilseed rape here - I've been beat too many times now
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Thanks for that. And your encouragement.

The wheels behind the disc coulters on a GD do such a good job, that Cambridge rolling doesn’t bring any benefit to the party. So I don’t bother any more.
My soils will slump easily. It doesn’t matter how heavy or light they are. So I do not want to cause any more compaction than is absolutely necessary, as this risks buggering up the soil the next time I want to drill it with the GD.

One thing I have learned is that you have to start of DD’ing in the right soil conditions. I we can do that, it’ll work. If not, expect a disaster.
I left school in the hot summer of 1976. Come 1st October it started to rail and never stopped until the following April. This burned into my brain the importance of drilling into good condition and often at harvest time and a few weeks after, soil conditions are really good.
I’ve always been an early driller and hated the idea of drilling late to control BG.
My GD allows me to drill earlier because it doesn’t disturb anything like as much BG, such that it doesn’t want to grow. So much so that on the whole I use half rate pre-ems and mostly don’t need to come back post-em to put the other half rate on. This makes me a very happy bloke, twice over!
 
tr250

tr250

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Location
Northants
Two Tone said:
Thanks for that. And your encouragement.

The wheels behind the disc coulters on a GD do such a good job, that Cambridge rolling doesn’t bring any benefit to the party. So I don’t bother any more.
My soils will slump easily. It doesn’t matter how heavy or light they are. So I do not want to cause any more compaction than is absolutely necessary, as this risks buggering up the soil the next time I want to drill it with the GD.

One thing I have learned is that you have to start of DD’ing in the right soil conditions. I we can do that, it’ll work. If not, expect a disaster.
I left school in the hot summer of 1976. Come 1st October it started to rail and never stopped until the following April. This burned into my brain the importance of drilling into good condition and often at harvest time and a few weeks after, soil conditions are really good.
I’ve always been an early driller and hated the idea of drilling late to control BG.
My GD allows me to drill earlier because it doesn’t disturb anything like as much BG, such that it doesn’t want to grow. So much so that on the whole I use half rate pre-ems and mostly don’t need to come back post-em to put the other half rate on. This makes me a very happy bloke, twice over!
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I agree with all you said but I do think the rolls finnish the job nicely for all reasons I’ve said above and also slugs that I forgot to mention this is my 6th year with the gd and even in the previous two wet years don’t feel it’s caused any compaction
 

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