- Location
- Bedfordshire
I am looking for recommendations for spring drilling Wheat and Spring barley.
Should i be using 3" spoons or 5" shares ?
Should i be using 3" spoons or 5" shares ?
Claydon - Spring Drilling setup
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- Start date
- Location
- Shropshire
I’ll be going with 7” shares when the conditions are right.
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
What about worn 7 inch shares? 2 rows of green tines on rear
Do the 5" shares make the band much narrower? Mine is about 4-5" with 7" shares and the splitter boot. Is there an option to make the splitter boots spread wider? I can't find a Bourgault boot wider than that. Has anyone tried the 1006 boots?
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Thanks for reminding me about the tillering aspect. As it happens i still have the drill set up with 7" shares and i plan to up the seed rate 25-30% over my normal spring rates. I was also considering fitting some old style zig zag harrows !!
Have never felt 5" shares reduced band width much but are helpful in wet going I feel.Do the 5" shares make the band much narrower? Mine is about 4-5" with 7" shares and the splitter boot. Is there an option to make the splitter boots spread wider? I can't find a Bourgault boot wider than that. Has anyone tried the 1006 boots?
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Might be worth trying a couple of 1006,s adjacent to each other but it looks marginal. Most important factors are probably working depth and fan speed IMO?
Simon Chiles
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- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
I’d be a bit cautious about that approach, I’d either block them all or none. With an air drill you need to have a consistent airflow down all the tubes otherwise the one’s with the highest resistance will get air stall and consequently block.
Good point - unevenly restricted air flow would also reduce the seed rate down that spout from an Accord type distributor. It was just a trial really. There has been some talk about using 9" A shares for better seed widths but without better outlets in the boots I don't see how that would improve things.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I drilled wheat last week with the five inch share and splitter boot, went very well. Drilled some in the autumn and swapped from seven inch to five inch in the same field and you can hardly see the difference in row width. Will use fives more in the future I think on my chalk land farm as sometimes I think the seven inch disturbs too much soil.
In the spring I like to use well worn leading tines as well, may try a set if discs in place of the tine this year.
In the spring I like to use well worn leading tines as well, may try a set if discs in place of the tine this year.
- Location
- Shropshire
We use 9” and prefer them, obviously in the right conditions. Here are two pictures of Graham wheat sown on the same day at the same seedrate with just the shares changed from new 7” to new 9”, pics taken in Nov 18, wish we had wheat like it this year
That's a very visible difference. Did you do anything else other than change the width of the shares?
- Location
- Shropshire
No nothing, literally changed them at the run next to the tree as we ordered them to see what they’d be like, they arrived by courier and dad brought them up the field where I swapped them and continued drilling.
- Location
- Suffolk
In a good tillering year, I doubt you'd see much on the yield meter. In a poor tillering year or late sown....
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