3 meter disc drill makers for small seeds

[davidroberts30]

who are the options out there?

 

[redcoo235]

Verdo, but not cheap. Very close spacing and follows ground well.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Aitchison Seedmatic, basic 3 box drill with single disc and cast presswheel

Follows the contours like you wouldn't believe, it's even got seed to strike on rocked gateways I drilled over

 

[davidroberts30]

Also the erth and moore

 

[Brisel]

Aitchison Seedmatic, basic 3 box drill with single disc and cast presswheel

Follows the contours like you wouldn't believe, it's even got seed to strike on rocked gateways I drilled over

That's sold over here as a Michael Moore Unidrill. Designed in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Cheers, I often had my suspicions that they were the same/similar, nice to have a hunch confirmed!
Do the Unidrills have foam pads to meter the seed?

Now I can see why people recommend the Moore drills, great bit of kit

 

[Bury the Trash]

Cheers, I often had my suspicions that they were the same/similar, nice to have a hunch confirmed!
Do the Unidrills have foam pads to meter the seed?

Now I can see why people recommend the Moore drills, great bit of kit
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Aitchison import them down under ..then paint them green and put their name on them to help sales I guess.?
I know little about them actually but.. from what I've seen....
I expect most sold now would be air and on them I think I'm right in saying its sulky metering

@scholland had a good thread on doing a box moore uni drill up ...and using it iirc.
Theres other users on here as well of course
@DrWazzock 's got an old one ss well iirc..

Well before the odd modern Aitchison ( or Gallagher ?) I think it was drill came about , ( I think theres one or 2 going around now) and..
about possibly as long as 30 yrs ago There was a box moore unidrill went around here used by a contractor,he did his best at direct sowing, well grass and forage crops anyway, over a period of quite a few years, I think the reason it didnt really catch on and is still being done locally now was the fact that its complete process that's needs a lot of experience which the farmer ( his customer) doesnt have therefore it will be an unfair trial right from the start iyswim.

Best thing Imo ...and it's like a lot of it, is if you can ( and have the time / money to experiment, on you're own plot with your own or hired machine, with patience and time to think and plan.
Just my take, and no disrespect to the OP

 

[davidroberts30]

@Bury the Trash
I'm looking at the farm business grant to get 1 so can do some experimenting with clovers and grass and maybe other stuff
Without resorting to plough

 

[Brisel]

Home - Moore Unidrill®

www.moore-unidrill.com

@Agricast might be able to help here.

 

[Bury the Trash]

@Bury the Trash
I'm looking at the farm business grant to get 1 so can do some experimenting with clovers and grass and maybe other stuff
Without resorting to plough

I cant ask the chap anything because hes long gone now, and when they were doing back in the early 90s I wasn't particularly interested, especially as the idea didnt seem to take off.
All they said to me about the subject that I remember was that a 'little bit of the right type of soil around the seed' was needed, and he said that that was the most likely narrow window when dry and damp was just about perfect to give a tiny bit of tilth to slip out of the side of the slot to hold the seed for germination.....in those loam soils. Mostly, in a reseeding leys or forage crop situation . I dont remember them trying corn around here.

Now that was using a bettinson then after that a Moore unidrill, an early box one. Obviously disc drills.
The only thing I can sort of deduce from it all is that the t slot like atchison have would create that seed position better than a disc. ( I do listen to k Pete comments tho of course.) In a wider window/ range of soil conditions ?
Having said that I fancy that somesort of trailled drill like a Duncan would follow the ground better.bug I know nothing other than being a casual observer.
Take a look at what @Warnesworth has written over on the 'dd tine driil ' thread theres the experts over there