Accord drill hopper on subsoiler

[Nearly]

Anyone done this?
Looking for one pass rape drill.
Don't say spend £1000 on a Stocks. It's only 30 acres.

Thanks

 

[clbarclay]

I have seen a few on shakerators, mostly as bean drills with seed tubs on the back of each leg. I have an accord unit on top of a pigtail cultivator as a seed drill.

Fan drive is probably the most awkward issue. A hydraulic fan drive removes any issues with making a PTO fit the existing frame, but adds to the cost. Mounting the hopper and land wheel is fairly straight forward fabrication.

I have a small seeder unit on a shakerator, but I don't think subsoiling before OSR is that critical I the soil isn't compacted. One spring job is to mount the seeder onto the tine drill so I can put DAP in the accord hopper and down the spots with the seed.

 

[fermerboy]

Anyone done this?
Looking for one pass rape drill.
Don't say spend £1000 on a Stocks. It's only 30 acres.

Thanks

Old Accord DF 1 front hopper on the front lift, pipe up the side of the cab, distribution head on your subsoiler/cultivator and jobs done.

If you can find a second hand one at sensible money you'd be right.

Can use the hopper for other stuff too. We use that setup for fert back to the Amazone combi for grain and fert sowing.

 

[Nearly]

I have seen a few on shakerators, mostly as bean drills with seed tubs on the back of each leg. I have an accord unit on top of a pigtail cultivator as a seed drill.

Fan drive is probably the most awkward issue. A hydraulic fan drive removes any issues with making a PTO fit the existing frame, but adds to the cost. Mounting the hopper and land wheel is fairly straight forward fabrication.

I have a small seeder unit on a shakerator, but I don't think subsoiling before OSR is that critical I the soil isn't compacted. One spring job is to mount the seeder onto the tine drill so I can put DAP in the accord hopper and down the spots with the seed.

Looking at fan drive unit costs it might be cheaper to buy a stocks seeder.
Hyd drive would sap too much power? Already at limit with 120hp and 5 legs.
Still thinking......

 

[clbarclay]

Only time I have noticed the fans power requirement was when the pump died in our main tractor with CCLS hydraulics and we finished the field with a MF2680, every time the steering wheel was turned I could here the fan speed drop. For OSR with a hydro fan it can be slowed right down so it takes naff all power to drive, rather than swing the restrictor into position.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Looking at fan drive unit costs it might be cheaper to buy a stocks seeder.
Hyd drive would sap too much power? Already at limit with 120hp and 5 legs.
Still thinking......

A few years back we put a 7530 on the dyno with a Kuhn front hopper on and we workout out the hydraulic fan took 9hp to run at the max speed allowed.

 

[TripleSix]

We had an accord hopper mounted to our shakerator.

Fan was driven off the rear of the shaker unit with a pulley and belt.

It worked ok, but the metering unit was a bit tired in terms of accuracy.

We have a techneat applicator bought for applying potato chemicals and have used that with a distribution head on the Discerator, splash plates for stubble neeps, and put rape in with straight outlets.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Anyone done this?
Looking for one pass rape drill.
Don't say spend £1000 on a Stocks. It's only 30 acres.

Thanks

Wouldn't you get a Stocks micro seeder for less than that?

 

[ADbeefboy]

I've picked up a DF1 front hopper on eBay, plan to use it to drill forage rape/kale behind a heva combi disc and to blow grass seed to spreader plates on a opico grass Harrow and under sow cereals on a simba free flow. Will put a distribution head on each machine so it's just a matter of connecting up main pipe.

 

[Badshot]

Where is the best place to buy distribution heads? I've got the front hopper already.

 

[ADbeefboy]

I got one and a couple of rolls of pipe with the hopper. Got a mate whose breaking an amazon drill I hoped to rob one off and was going to try Andrew Guest, he seems to be the man to talk to about drills etc.

 

[multi power]

Anyone done this?
Looking for one pass rape drill.
Don't say spend £1000 on a Stocks. It's only 30 acres.

Thanks

Vicon spinner on front and big pigtail on the back

 

[Alistair Nelson]

I got one and a couple of rolls of pipe with the hopper. Got a mate whose breaking an amazon drill I hoped to rob one off and was going to try Andrew Guest, he seems to be the man to talk to about drills etc.

Talk to Andy guest and Tim smith both know there accord gear backwards. Andy will have some s/h bits kitting about or both he and Tim have the new stuff on the shelf. For this type of project ignore your local dealers the parts will take forever to come, cost more and with both of these you get there expertise and experience thrown in over the phone. Apologies to all kv dealers out there.

Alistair

 

[phil t]

One on ebay with fan etc