Fish
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I bet, when you were building that drill, you were think, is this a good idea, is this gonna work ?
I bet, when you were building that drill, you were think, is this a good idea, is this gonna work ?
I don’t get the love of disc drill on Stoney ground, all the disc does wen it hits a stone is ride out, A tine will shove the stone out of the way.I really like your drill and what you are doing @Wombat . I would love to try something like it however we have quite a high stone content in our soils which makes me think a disc drill may be better.
On our flinty land, disc wear is also a problem, so we changed from a GD to a Sabre tine converted cultivator (thanks to @Bob lincs ). That enabled us to get our beans in deep enough, and clears trash well (the initial reason we went for disc). The only downside for the first few years is collecting the big flints it pulls onto the surface.I don’t get the love of disc drill on Stoney ground, all the disc does wen it hits a stone is ride out, A tine will shove the stone out of the way.
Because a tine drags them to the surface and you have to pick the buggers up.I don’t get the love of disc drill on Stoney ground, all the disc does wen it hits a stone is ride out, A tine will shove the stone out of the way.
Yes I understand that as we farm what amounts to a chalk and flint quarry with a thin layer of soil on top.Because a tine drags them to the surface and you have to pick the buggers up.
I have not tried a tine drill so I could be wrong but that is what we found in the past when we worked ploughing with springtines.
Well this field did 9.3t/haThis gleam looks a bit scruffy as there is some spring wheat come in it hence the different heights, no issue as it all goes in the feed heap
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3m and about 7k total excluding my assembly time.Can you remind us of the total cost and how wide please?
Thanks for taking the trouble to post and answer all the questions. Apologies if you have already answered this.
I assume you sprayed it off before drilling? Im quite interested in doing this myself with front hopper and either tines or discs. We've quite heavy land with lots of flints, and also some sandy soil so not sure which to go with. Weaving do sell both tines and discs...
Yes sprayed it off about 2 weeks before to just reduce the biomass a bit for the drill to go through.I assume you sprayed it off before drilling? Im quite interested in doing this myself with front hopper and either tines or discs. We've quite heavy land with lots of flints, and also some sandy soil so not sure which to go with. Weaving do sell both tines and discs...
110hpsorry if I missed this, but what hp tractor do you have on this?
Was the SB drilled in nice and dry conditions and about the beginning of April??View attachment 1040018
the spring barley into the sprayed off stubble turnips has gone a little nuts to be honest
What are your thoughts now on the idea of building a folding one? Have you considered adding some wings?So i decided to have a go, I liked a few tine designs but found Weavings brilliant so the whole build was based around their sabre tine. My orgional plan was to go 4m but thought i would need to have 2x2m frames on a pivot and to be honest that was a bridge to far this year.
I decided to go front hopper, rear toolbar as atm we only have 115hp tractor and wasn't sure we could lift a fully mounted sabre tine rear drill.