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Take a well worn set of A shares and cut the wing tips off, and you have a set of spring bean shares and all you need to buy are the open seeder boots.
Take a well worn set of A shares and cut the wing tips off, and you have a set of spring bean shares and all you need to buy are the open seeder boots.
Thanks I wondered whether the leading tine was working deeper than beans were being placed.IIRC, the leading tine wants to be in about 150mm (about 6 inches) and the seeding tines wants to be about 1.5-2 inches
Is that correct @charlie@claydon
don't bother buying 3inch spoonsI think spring beans sound the best to dip our toe in the water, as the winter bean knife and chute are a big investment if it only ends up as a one off! Whereas the 3in spoon and open chute could also be used for OSR.
When did you plant your spring crop?
don't bother buying 3inch spoons
just cut down your worn out a shares with a grinder or gas torch
we drilled spring beans into old pasture and yielded 1.2 ton acre which I was pleased with as ground not cropped or touched in 15 yrs sold them off combine at £210 ton non assured
did better than some our w barley ground.
now drilled with wwheat and went in beautifully
just gotta pray wire worm doesn't wipe it out
NoHave you sprayed with dursban?
I suggest using the bean share or 3" spoon rather than the A share. You will then get less disturbance and find it easier to cover the slots. Also are you using paddles or Z tines on the rear ?Well, as said previously we ventured into the Dutch winter bean adventure. Been drilling them last Saturday at 20c, sun and wind! Will probably be a first and last we get this fine weather during drilling. Variety is Tundra from Limagrain, imported from the UK. Drilled 150kg/ha. We had intended to drill them directly in fixed wheat stubble with the Claydon Hybrid. However, this is very very heavy and very wet clay soil, the tractor and drill wouldn't move an inch. Then resorted to the other half of the field which had been subsoiled and power harrowed early September and weathered nicely on the top. Managed to plant them the requested 10-12cm (4-5 inches). We wanted them in deep as we fear frost might get the better of them. Lot more soil disturbance than I had wished for. Used a worn A-share and the bean coulter. Splitter boot only got stuck. 170 hp New Holland drilled them OK at around 5km. Covering the seed behind the wheels was an issue. As it was such nice weather we decided to power harrow the field afterwards to cover the seed. Will also help get a better herbicide control hopefully.
Bit puzzled what to do on this farm with very heavy clay. Soil just sits wet and never dries up. All the subsoiled and combi drilled stuff looks perfect. The direct drilled fields (Claydon) not so perfect. Having to decompose lots of straw takes a strain on the crop. This soil needs some serious attention with cover crops, lime and chopped straw I think. Also a more diverse cropping rather than continuous wheat (field has been wheat since 2001). Also still have the stubble now.. Will probably subsoil if we get a chance and leave it to dry. Hopefully drill spring beans in March with a conventional drill.
The drainage on this field is fine and so are the ditches. We tried to subsoil it this week but same to the Claydon tractor just sat in the field and nothing moved! 170 hp won't pull it even at a shallow depth.Niels,
Its probably a drainage thing, if the field drains/ ditches are good i would help things a little by using a low disturbance subsoiler when dry to get water away.
You could also reduce straw burden by either baling, chopping higher or altering rotation. I would still use the Claydon in the spring, maybe with Twin tine kit?