Discs OR Tine Coulter??
Build Your Own Drill
- Thread starter BTT UK Ltd
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- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
We have two front hoppers and six different types of rear coulters , they all get used for different crops and conditions.
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
It’s a 7.5m osr drill .
I did last year, using the weaving saber tine legs, I designed a custom frame that takes an A frame mounted accord hopper I used an indirect PTO dive for the fan as I had time constraints, and didn’t want the PTO to be a problem.
I have the CAD drawings I sent to the laser cutting service onsite.
They also bent the headstock.
I would make a few tweaks now I have actually made one but only minor changes maybe push the packer further back (simple) change the top link position and the hopper a tiny bit further back.
I think I did those revisions, but the version of student CAD I used has ended so I cannnot get back into the files.
To do anything but view them now.
I managed to get the land wheel inboard and I drilled 200 acres with it, I did find you need to use very square box section for the frame with weaving legs I got around this with adding 16mm nylon rod into the area that the rubber tries to crush into by trimming the rubber block but getting a very square profile box section 80x80 x6mm would put you to standard spec to a weaving saber tine, I still think the nylon66 will help as it helps the legs bounce back to possition and I needed only 9 meters of the nylon 66 rod so £65 cost and you could use a smaller section.
everything was new in my project as it had to be for the grant, but a second hand hopper would have cut the project to well under 10k I have had it on a MF 3065 (80ph) it lifts it empty and It may do with 500kg of seed in it and it pulled it at 60mm when I was testing the modification to the legs to get around my frame rails not being super square on my build.
The packer (not the packers frame and arms) I got from the company that make ERTH drills. They shipped it to me before brexit . . .
It has 18 legs in total and is 3meters working width. And 500mm tine spacing in both directions.
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Looks great, and professional. Which grant scheme did you manage to do this on? Thanks
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Some amazing drills on there and very talented men.
Also look at bramley seed establishment. They have some very nice stuff.
Also look at bramley seed establishment. They have some very nice stuff.
The one ending this time last year so the one before this current one.
That's interesting, I didn't realize you could build your own. Lots of ideas now! Thanks
I am not sure if that’s true now, you have to read the terms and conditions, they change them every time.
You will have to find an independent company or fabrication shop to build it, my guys paid for everything but the hopper, and put it together for me, because that’s the only way that worked when I applied.
So I submitted 2 bills only, one for the hopper which was brand new via a local dealer, the other for the finished drill.
DIY is not an option, if it was I would have saved myself a lot more money.
Thanks for the explanation.
Do you ever make your own coulters? Or are they all a pre-fabbed (eg metcalf) or a standard point from a drill?
Also you say you have 2 hoppers for your various drills, they look like the proper job so I'm assuming no metering issues with wider drills? (I'm thinking a 4m accord style for a 6m drill but not sure if I'd need 2 for metering capacity? )
Many thanks!
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Hi , we make our own coulters on the OSR drill and the tine drills but the combinations are on VAD coulters . You really need twin metering units on a 6M or you are very restricted on seed rate and forward speed .
- Location
- Cambs/Suffolk/Norfolk
This needs its own thread..
Thank you!! That's confirmed my suspicions re. metering
Can I pick your brain a bit on tine coulters please? Do you have any closer pictures you'd mind sharing?
Is it a simple as the relevant size round tube going into either some rectangular box or some side plates to hold the seed slot open long end for the seeds to fall?
Cheers!
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Yes just as simple as a pipe and side plates held on to the tine with the point fixing bolts .
with out disrespect on your design very much like an old farm force counter .
hoyboy
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Haha! I can't take credit for the building of it but it was built by another farmer up here. It's well thought out, scrapheap challenge at it's finest! Everything is straight and true and works very well. Even has adjustable downward pressure on the ram that lifts it up and down
Thank you!!
I think I've been over complicating it in my head after originally wanting to make a double coulter. Great to see something simple that obviously works and is tested!
Just to chuck this into the mix! We have been working on a replaceable tip option leg for the Sabretine / Cayenna. This can then bolt onto the JJ Metcalf clamp that fits on 80mm box.
