- Location
- Mid Norfolk
So the consensus on here is that Carrier drills were the Triton of the 1970s?
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Are Carrier Tine Drills any good?
- Thread starter DrWazzock
- Start date
- Location
- N.Lincs
Maybe - but with none of the bullsh!t
- Location
- Suffolk
On a heavier clay soil how would you go about using one to establish winter and spring cereals/beans without a plough/power harrow? I'm possibly taking on 70 acres of part time farming next year with an IH574 as main tractor, and I'm thinking a Carier might be a cheap versatile way of getting crops in? I'm guessing no issues with running on the IH, it's preparing a seedbed for it that needs thinking about. Want to avoid ploughing as it ploughs up in big lumps and I haven't got the time, diesel or inclination to plough it and then work it all back down again.
Thoughts appreciated
Thoughts appreciated
- Location
- south norfolk
Pig tail cultivator will make a good seedbed in reasonable conditions and your tractor would manage a 10 ft version and there must be thousands of these sitting in nettles around the country.bomford superflow will do the same job as will a small set of discs.plenty done like this back in the 70/80s.will no doubt come round again as all these do.
nick...
- Location
- Suffolk
There is also a pigtail sitting in the nettles, excellent!! Also a gang of rolls and I've access to a fergie 35X. Love it when a plan comes together.
Nearby neighbour has a full bells and whistles Claydon so it would be interesting to try the 2 methods in a split field
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The Carrier was basically a spring tine harrow, so if it didnt cover seeds very well you just did it again without the seed crossing it.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Putting a new set of Reekie tines on the MF30 as I write. Decent forecast. Trying MF30 first. Carrier last resort. Also needs some new points.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Looks a grand machine. Big tyres, built in transport kit. Shed’s just not big enough. Don’t know if can get replacement points but probably can modify something.
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Doc ,im late telling you this but neighbour has vaderstad after harrow tines on his MF 30 he says the are far better at covering the seed than the reekie origanals in wetter going . But looking at the forecast you should have no problems even though Sunday looks a bit iffy . Best of luck hopefully you will be driled up by the twist of the month .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Useful info. Anyway I have fitted Reekie tines and tried to space them evenly so there is a tine to each side of the coulter to push the soil back over the seed. As it was the tines I replaced were all over the place, some directly in the seed s So it should be some improvement.
I have also ordered a few Harrow tines for the Carrier drill to fill in gaps. I think the original design had groups of two tines in the covering Harrow, relying on interaction between the seeding tines to do some of the covering work. I think I will fill the gaps in the covering Harrow as it will need all the help it can get.
Reasonable forecast. Might power Harrow some up at the weekend and leave it as long as I dare before drilling. Could be a drying breeze next week. Much better to go on it after it’s dried a bit than freshly lifted.
- Location
- The North
can of iron brew and some skittles?
oh and a disposable face mask as a sweetner