750A fertilizer idea.

[marco]

Just thinking. Dangerous thing I know. But here it goes. The idea would be to put a small accord hopper and metering unit and put fert down every 3rd seeding unit. The advantage of the Deere units is the fert can be put down deeper because each unit has independent dept control. The idea would be to fit a T on each "fertilizer" Coulter so it could used for either or applications pretty quickly. The seeding part could be switched off with either tramline units some sort of taps on the air hose or a homemade hat for the air distributer head.

Ideas of prices or for tramliners Ts for the air pipe/lines etc. Welcome.

The only problem I see is would skipping every third row leave too much of a gap for the crop to close in and negate any advantages of the fert.

Thoughts ideas comments welcome

 

[Clive]

Just finished install of our fert system today, will get some pics and start a thread tomorrow, Very pleased with how it's turned out

 

[marco]

Just finished install of our fert system today, will get some pics and start a thread tomorrow, Very pleased with how it's turned out

Well that's just splendid. I was hoping you might have some pearls of wisdom on the row width. Looking forward to see your pictures in your thread

 

[SilliamWhale]

Sounds a hassle to me.

What's the thinking behind it?

 

[marco]

Sounds a hassle to me.

What's the thinking behind it?

Fert in the seedbed all this talk about the crosslot giving higher yields makes me think that if you want to equal the slight increase in yield you have to put some fert down.

Also the crosslot seems to move more soil even though its been sold as an ultra low disturbance drill even though the photographic evidence seems to prove otherwise.

If you wanted to run the disk deeper like the crosslot and move the Coulter up to the top hole you'd either need a T type Coulter that nobody makes or maybe run a RID (reduced inner diameter) dept wheel.

Suggestions?

 

[Colin]

Get an accord grain and seed drill and just plonk that on instead of the original hopper.