Dale Eco Drill

They always look a bit flimsy to me, neighbour has one and has confessed to welding his one up. I also have some heavy land, I like the machine but don't like the seed cart wheels behind the coulters on the bigger machines.
His rips a bit of clod up in a dry time but worked well in the wet apart from the rear tyres compacting behind the seed when it's really wet.
 

Clive

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Liked ours but it wasn't as all round as the 750a, i.e. Not as good in big cover crops, ran a 9m, was easy to pull (JD 6930) and grew good crops

My CO ULD conversion is as good if not better imo though at a fraction of the cost it does a very similar job if your feeling handy in the workshop ? Brocks have had a 12m for sale for about a decade now that should be a very cheap base !
 
Found this very interesting test from France - (difficult for me to understand but google translate helps!)
As I understand it:
Seed Hawk / Dale drill places seeds excellent and has no seeds on the surface, and yield is the best.
Not surprisingly has it more weeds exposed than disc drills (except Væderstad disc with high speed drilling)
 

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Banana Bar

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Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Liked ours but it wasn't as all round as the 750a, i.e. Not as good in big cover crops, ran a 9m, was easy to pull (JD 6930) and grew good crops

My CO ULD conversion is as good if not better imo though at a fraction of the cost it does a very similar job if your feeling handy in the workshop ? Brocks have had a 12m for sale for about a decade now that should be a very cheap base !

That's gone to be converted into a 13.3m!!
 

Banana Bar

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Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Maybe, I keep looking at used Horsch Sprinters to mount Metcalf points on for OSR. I worry though that because there is no individual tine depth control that as soon as I get to a combine wheel mark the seed will be left on the surface?
 

Drdf96

Member
Location
Glos/Worcs
We're very happy with ours BB. I understand some peoples coments saying that they look slightly 'flimsy' but the metal is in ALL the right places! We've had no issues with the build of the machine. The indivisual coulter depth control is very good and will always maintain a consistant depth no matter the conditions. I expect some time soon we will look at upscaling to get it to fit into our CTF, we have breifly looked at sprinters on dutch openers just as another option but honestly feel the dale is a better drill all together requarding disturbance and indivisual coluter pressure etc. Plus the dale family are top people to deal with..
 
First Dale Drill in Denmark arrived here today. Like the first Dale Drills with Seed Hawk openers.
When I have evaluated all possible drill solutions, the Seed Hawk opener gets highest score. Disc drills won't survive long in this soil here with a lot of flint stones (from next year I will check the Weaving GD drill for the next 3 harvests, but I know the costs will be high). Dale offers the only real fertilizer placement: a little to the side and a little deeper than the seed, so the roots will seek the fertilizer. 25 cm row spacing and excellent depth control on each row and flexible choices of granular fertilizer. Phosphorus in liquid fertilizers is double price as DAP here, this means 25£/ha savings in the future.
6m drill can be pulled by <150 hp.
Well - lets see how it goes!
 

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