Adjusting fert spreader disc veins

[MrNoo]

I striped loads of grass with that Diamond high sulphur fert

Yup that was what I was using for my stripes, brilliant stuff for it!!!! Always handy when you farm right next to a main road, the pee take……!!

 

[dowcow]

I was only reading on here the other day where someone had been charged £350 (I think) for one product they then wanted extra to do another test.

Looking at 3 different products a year through fert spreader. It’d soon get expensive.

There were 4 different types of fertiliser in my barn this spring, some left over from last year. Pulan AN, CAN, 24-0-14, and some PotPluS. Luckily I'm at 10 meters on grassland so there is plenty of overlap which makes it a lot easier to avoid striping than in 32m tramlines.

 

[DrWazzock]

If there too much behind the tractor , increase the angle of the smaller vanes.
If there’s too much overlap between bouts, decrease the angle of the longer vanes.
After much messing about with trays I found I couldn’t collect enough to see a measurable difference across the width. So I just look on the ground and count grains under a small hoop of wire chucked down. Make the wire hoop big enough to encircle say twenty grains so you count enough to see a significant variation but aren’t counting hundreds.

 

[James]

These Amazone stripping an origin fert issue or just Amazones in general?

Was always put off that make by stories of stripping. One customer has one and has stripped his winter barley again

 

[thesilentone]

Sorry , but if you want to sprea Urea accurately their is only one way to go.
liquid! No offence , but Urea sold here is from any factory in. The world and can be anything from nice graunles to dust. At this price I would not dream of chancing a spreader

Liquid only came about when ships with holds full of ' blocks ' turned up and couldn't be unloaded without watering and pumping. Hey-presto, the liquid market was born.

However, your point about spreading Urea is correct, unless you buy a good quality product with a high % of prills the same size and density, how do you set a spreader ?

The onus should be firmly on the fert supplier to ensure the product is fit for purpose.

Crap product produces crap results.

 

[mf7480]

Agree Amazone can be harder work to set up. Just had our 10 year old Kuhn tested for the first time. Results were 100% perfect just using book settings. The tester commented as soon as I mentioned it was a Kuhn he knew it would be better ok

 

[Nick.]

We’re only at 21m, not like I’m asking the impossible.
I always end up phoning for settings, and they’re never right. They seem worse than ever this time.
The app doesn’t list some fairly common makes of fert.
I just don’t understand how they can be so far out.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Did our ZAM last year on 4 different ferts with SCS app settings for tsp and mop just about spot on, Nitram needed a little adjustment and N&S was quite a bit out, all done on a new set of vanes

 

[KB6930]

We’re only at 21m, not like I’m asking the impossible.
I always end up phoning for settings, and they’re never right. They seem worse than ever this time.
The app doesn’t list some fairly common makes of fert.
I just don’t understand how they can be so far out.

Very little point listing them tho I've got some Yara bela sulfan which you'd think would be good to go it's on the kv app and in they're book of settings and they're weighing it at 1.06 kg/l .

I tried it yesterday they're granual size is pretty close but I'm weighing it at 0.67 kg/l so it'll spread massively different to what they say I've not got round to testing it yet as it started to rain so just went with what I'd spread large light nitrogen sulphur at before and I'll get it over the trays next day out .

Just because they test a wee bit at some point doesn't guarantee that every bag that is then supplied will be the same

 

[Exfarmer]

Yesterday riding a cycle path alongside a field of wheat, my fellow cyclists commented that fertiliser must be cheap this year judging by the amount we were running over. I know it was an Amazone,

 

[2wheels]

Yesterday riding a cycle path alongside a field of wheat, my fellow cyclists commented that fertiliser must be cheap this year judging by the amount we were running over. I know it was an Amazone,

operator needing a kick up the arse.

 

[Baker7810]

As said previously, I just look for a similar product on the app and take my settings from that. All the origin fert we have had previously has been pretty crap but can never recall having any issues with striping, we do get our spreader tested annually with Scs as well.