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I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving. I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous. Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...

Come on you farm engineers if you were to build one from scratch what features would be an absolute must. Would you choose discs or more of a knife like coulter? How would you go about designing a drill which would cope with a mixture of cropping from Cereal,rotational grass ,into cover crops...

Weaving sabre tine, KrM Sola Drill SM-P there the ones I’m aware of That will go in direct but also on previously stirred ground. What other options are out there that are similar in layout etc? thanks

So we’ve modified, developed and pimped the rear tine based coulter bar of our Horsch front tank based twin outlet drilling rig as far as we can like triggers broom and it’s now time to produce the next evolution to take it to the next level from what we’ve learnt and utilising newly parts and...

Currently a traditional set up; plough/ heavy cultivations then drill but looking at going straight in to stubble or minimum amount of tillage. Looking at a Claydon, are they any good…? Cropping consists of wheat, barley, oats, maize & grass but obviously would only be for cereal crops.

Has anyone used Rolland Technika Rolnicza in Poland for replacement metal? We have a Rabe plough which is needing new boards as they are now more weld than original. I realise Rabe went bust some years ago and this is all I can come up with.

As per title with all the grass weed about who's contemplating whether to get the plough out this autumn?

Anyone else seeing a big grass weed explosion with this wet weather? So depressing rampant ryegrass and blackgrass in fields that looked clean post Christmas.

Which points are users finding best on Horsch Sprinter, Dutch Openers or Bourgault?

Not for the first time have I read of a direct drill comparison and found the best margins were obtained by quite a large percentage by a more conventional approach. ( This weeks FW ) Is it possible that DD and cover cropping can work and can be successful but if you are not bothered about being...

Looking into using an accord type drill as a starting point, building a frame to sit underneath it, removing all the coulters and then mounting direct tines to the new heavier frame underneath. Looking at tines, looks like you can go with the weaving sabre tine, or the metcalfe tines which seem...

With the spiraling cost of new drills and various threads on here about people building their own drills, or pimping wrecks to make state of the art custom drills, we thought it'd be good to have an area at Groundswell to show off a home-made drill or two and let the constructors tell their...

Weighing up our options, currently running a 7310r as our prime mover but we only really need the power for 3 months of the year. Thinking a 6250r with the new hyd boost may be a more versatile option? Needs to be able to pull a 6m horsch sprinter on 5"dutch coulters well which is about as hard...

In the time I have been a reader of Direct Driller Magazine, I have learnt a lot from the magazine’s content. While at the fantastic Groundswell event, Chris Fellows persuaded me to write a contribution to the magazine, which I am more than happy to do to give something back, so here is my...

Currently running a twin hopper 4m sprinter st D Drilling on 1 inch Bourgaults with a 165puma and debating changing to a 6m, is there anyone running a 6m that could advise as to wether extra horsepower would be needed?

This is probably old news to a lot of you but when I ran into Bourgault at SIMA they said they were selling drills and planters into the European market now. I've always liked their compound angle discs. Mostly cause they're gigantic, like the old school disc ploughs. Only problem for me is...

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If you are running a John Deere 750a and looking for new discs then we now have new stock in of Forges De Niaux discs. These are arguably the best discs in the market place as discussed on previous Forum Chats. These are available from Bourgault Tillage Tools UK Ltd, email - [email protected] OR...

Evening folks We have been drilling OSR and are thinking of getting a better cultivator to run infront of the drill. We would like something with spring tines on the front to try lift and shatter the ground followed by a row of discs or two rows of discs and a packer roller or something to...

Are New Holland and Case combines slipping a long way behind Claas, John Deere and Fendt/MF Ideal combines see Claas have announced new models and and new cabs on the Lexions