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  1. Farm Classifieds

    Duro France 4 row strip till with crinkle discs and rotavator

    Duro France 4 row strip till with crinkle discs and rotavator Advert added by: Stephen Temple @sjt01 Machinery Details Category: Tillage Maize Drill Price: £3500 Condition: Used Description 4 row Duro strip till machine, 750 mm row spacing. Winged legs updated to...
  2. Agriland RSS

    Kuhn launches new folding power harrow

    Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland As alternatives to ploughing gain popularity, implement makers, such as Kuhn Farm Machinery, are having to build flexibility into their machines to ensure that they fit into the myriad cropping systems that are now being used. The company has just...
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    How to change Accord suffolk coulter tips

    As above, really - do I drill the rivets out, or grind the heads off and punch them? Or is there another way I haven't thought of?
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    The humble year of an organic farmer

    Under request from @Bokey I have decided to dedicate a thread to the trials and tribulations on the farm, I shall endeavour to splice the good with the bad. A bit about us, 600 acres all told, 450 cropable, 8 years into organic, mainly arable with a few wooly critters, an impatient old man and...
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    Dowdeswell DP7 D2

    What’s the craic with these ploughs?What’s the D2 mean? I swore I’d never have another DP7 after changing to a LB85 ….. until prices for worn out old kit went silly. But now I’m looking for another plough for 135hp and DP7 look affordable. And with Diwdeswell MA100, 120 etc what’s the number...
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    Stubble Cultivator

    Hi just wondering what is the minimum power requirement for a 4m stubble cultivator at 7 to 8 inches deep, the likes of a vaderstad cultus or kuhn cultimer or horsch terrano please.
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    Stubble chitting machine optiond

    We’re on soils that go hard and struggling to find a machine to chit them unless they are wet. We persevered with a vaderstad carrier for a few years but got rid of it in the end as it just wouldn’t penetrate hard soils. We then used a mounted disc/press machine with the idea the tractor linkage...
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    Establishing multi species cover crops

    As per the SFI cover crop option which gets £129 a hectare. it’s something which would be good on our farm but I’m trying to figure out a way of establishing them without spending a fortune on machines for what would be no more than 100 acre a year. only drill we have is the combi on suffolks...
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    LD legs for Sumo Quatro

    We have a 2020 Sumo Quatro and are looking to fit low disturbance legs and points. What are the best options out there please?
  10. Farm Classifieds

    T231732E 2019 He-Va 4m Combi Lift

    T231732E 2019 He-Va 4m Combi Lift Advert added by: Chandlers (Farm Equipment) Ltd Machinery Details Category: Tillage Subsoiler Price: £8500 Condition: Used Description OPICO HEVA 4M COMBI-LIFT FOR TRAILED CULTIVATORS AND DRILLS. HYDRAULIC RESET WITH 1 TUNGSTEN BLOCK ON...
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    Tig welder for hobby use

    Thinking it might be an interesting hobby for me and the boys to make stuff out of old bikes, toys etc. Does anyone have any views on models etc? See some adverts for ones at £250ish What about running costs, range of metals? I’ve no experience with tig welders, stick or mig only, done...
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    Vaderstad track eradicators

    Hi all can be struggling to pull tractor wheelings out when drilling with the vaddy and have to drill deeper than I would like so seed is only just covered in the wheelings. I have adjustable system disc behind the wheels running deeper than the rest but now these discs are a lot more worn and...
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    Saw bench sharpening

    Hi all, Does anybody know of any saw bench blade sharpening service in Kent? Thank you Martin
  14. CPM RSS

    Making easier work of establishment

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF At Agritechnica 2019, Sky revealed multiple revisions to its EasyDrill direct disc drills. CPM visits an Oxfordshire farm with experience of both pre- and post-upgrade models, to discover what influenced the decision to stay with the maker...
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    Genuine Amazone tines!!!

    I have just been quoted £38.52 for a single genuine replacement power harrow tine from an Amazone dealer,but Kramp are selling them for £11 each. Are they the same or are the Kramp ones significantly poorer quality ? S&P
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    Simba free flow

    Looking at the above and there is a few about for handy money. Talking to sellers they are suggesting to me that they are “min till” drills. How does this compare to a direct drill? In its simplest form I want to dril l grass seed into burnt off grass and some turnips into the same.
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    NFU mutual financial results / remuneration

    Someone send me this and asked if i would post on TFF, they work for the NFU so asked to remain anon………. so ……… ( to be clear - this is the insurance co not the NFU but as we know there are VERY strong links and multi million £’s payment made in NFU accounts between these entities )...
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    Lemken Duramaxx

    Does anyone have any experience with the hook on Duramaxx metal on Lemken ploughs, specifically the points? Are there any non genuine parts available or can you only get the hook on parts as genuine? Is there anyway to use standard bolt on points on a Duramaxx style body?
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    Straight or Cranked Power Harrow Tines

    Recently bought a combi drill and could do with putting new tines on it. There’s a choice of straight or cranked, any advantage of one over the other?
  20. CPM RSS

    The seeds of a new way on weeds

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A farmer-led trial is putting harvest weed seed control through its paces. CPM visits a farm in Warwickshire with a New Holland combine harvester fitted with a Redekop seed control unit. By Tom Allen-Stevens There’s a sense of...
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