Claydon TerraStar

[Dockers]

Why all the soil movement ? If cultivation kills blackgrass/slugs ? why so much of it/them around ?? What have you achieved with this pass with the Terrastar ? on cultivated land ??

 

[Andrew K]

Why all the soil movement ? If cultivation kills blackgrass/slugs ? why so much of it/them around ?? What have you achieved with this pass with the Terrastar ? on cultivated land ??

Was only trying it to see the effect James, only one width done in either field, so no need to worry.

We do not fallow the land alternate yrs, so i find a pass with something initially ahead of the drill puts us in a better situation ref chitting of blackgrass,vol cereals, killing slugs without chems and evening out the straw mat.It suits our soiltype to not move the soil excessively, but nothing is written in stone.

Cost wise, not done any firm figures yet but I expect it to be extremely cheap to run, esp if used for cover crops, incorporation of manures etc as well.

 

[Feldspar]

I have to say that I think the Terrastar is an amazing bit of kit. Certainly the best value thing we've bought for a while and so simple and easy to use. Just cracked out 170ac today in 12 hours and I'm making an excellent job on some of our heaviest fields after 18mm of rain at the end of last week. Follow with the rolls and you can create a seedbed in no time which doesn't normally happen on that farm. The plough next door is going slowly, using lots of fuel, and will require at least two slower passes afterwards and will require some time / weather to be in a drillable state. So cheap to run - need to work out if it's cheaper than a slug pellet pass and how much more expensive it is that glyphosate. I am getting now to need to replace the blades, but I must have done well over 1000ac. Spot fuel usage is about 2.7 l/ha and I'm doing an average work rate of 7.5 ha/hr. 220hp tractor is barely ticking over.

I don't want to speak to soon, but I think on our soil type this is the perfect thing to use to generate some tilth so that the soil dries faster in the spring, or faster after a rain in the autumn. It seems to work so well at speed too and does an excellent job of levelling. We moled a fields at right angles to the tramlines and so I ran it at nearly right angles to the moling. It was blooming rough, but the Terrastar did great job of levelling the moles and closing the slots. Waited a few week

 

[Badshot]

I have to say that I think the Terrastar is an amazing bit of kit. Certainly the best value thing we've bought for a while and so simple and easy to use. Just cracked out 170ac today in 12 hours and I'm making an excellent job on some of our heaviest fields after 18mm of rain at the end of last week. Follow with the rolls and you can create a seedbed in no time which doesn't normally happen on that farm. The plough next door is going slowly, using lots of fuel, and will require at least two slower passes afterwards and will require some time / weather to be in a drillable state. So cheap to run - need to work out if it's cheaper than a slug pellet pass and how much more expensive it is that glyphosate. I am getting now to need to replace the blades, but I must have done well over 1000ac. Spot fuel usage is about 2.7 l/ha and I'm doing an average work rate of 7.5 ha/hr. 220hp tractor is barely ticking over.

I don't want to speak to soon, but I think on our soil type this is the perfect thing to use to generate some tilth so that the soil dries faster in the spring, or faster after a rain in the autumn. It seems to work so well at speed too and does an excellent job of levelling. We moled a fields at right angles to the tramlines and so I ran it at nearly right angles to the moling. It was blooming rough, but the Terrastar did great job of levelling the moles and closing the slots. Waited a few week

You've nearly worn the blades out already!!!
How much to reblade? On the old turbo tillers the bearing housings wore out on the underneath too. A neighbour has a demo coming this week of it.

 

[Brisel]

The old Turbotillers/Sampos didn't have depth wheels unlike the Terrastar. The bearing casings should wear less depending on how deep it was set

 

[Badshot]

Ah, I've not seen one in the flesh yet. Depth wheels would help no end.

 

[Feldspar]

You've nearly worn the blades out already!!!
How much to reblade? On the old turbo tillers the bearing housings wore out on the underneath too. A neighbour has a demo coming this week of it.

Blades are getting down to about 4 inches. I have been moving more soil with it than I think perhaps Claydons would do themselves because we're trying to level fields up a bit. Yesterday was dampish and heavy soil and so it was picking up on the shaft a bit. It does seem to go well though after a rain, and yesterday I was doing in one pass what it would probably take two passes to do in the dry.

Will find out the cost of new blades. Hopefully it isn't an unwelcome surprise. I suppose I should not say that it's very cheap to run until I know that figure!

 

[Clive]

I have to say that I think the Terrastar is an amazing bit of kit. Certainly the best value thing we've bought for a while and so simple and easy to use. Just cracked out 170ac today in 12 hours and I'm making an excellent job on some of our heaviest fields after 18mm of rain at the end of last week. Follow with the rolls and you can create a seedbed in no time which doesn't normally happen on that farm. The plough next door is going slowly, using lots of fuel, and will require at least two slower passes afterwards and will require some time / weather to be in a drillable state. So cheap to run - need to work out if it's cheaper than a slug pellet pass and how much more expensive it is that glyphosate. I am getting now to need to replace the blades, but I must have done well over 1000ac. Spot fuel usage is about 2.7 l/ha and I'm doing an average work rate of 7.5 ha/hr. 220hp tractor is barely ticking over.

I don't want to speak to soon, but I think on our soil type this is the perfect thing to use to generate some tilth so that the soil dries faster in the spring, or faster after a rain in the autumn. It seems to work so well at speed too and does an excellent job of levelling. We moled a fields at right angles to the tramlines and so I ran it at nearly right angles to the moling. It was blooming rough, but the Terrastar did great job of levelling the moles and closing the slots. Waited a few week

1000ac is not a lot for the blades ? I hope they are not too expensive

Carrier used shallow will do about 6000 -8000ac on a set of discs

 

[Feldspar]

1000ac is not a lot for the blades ? I hope they are not too expensive

Carrier used shallow will do about 6000 -8000ac on a set of discs

If I look at how much soil it's moving and compare that with the amount of metal I used on the Mzuri or Claydon drill, it's not a huge amount. As you say, price will be important.

I think the Carrier or Joker would be an obvious other option. What I really like about the Terrastar is it doesn't compact the soil at all. This means that you can work it in slightly damper conditions and the lumps that are left behind are in an uncompacted state. If you then let it dry and roll it, all of the "clods" fragment beautifully and give a really nice seedbed. It also deals with chopped straw nicely. I have used through a lot of our spring barley stubbles which didn't spread at all well. I'm much happier about what I've got now.

Have a Joker coming on demo (not that we need one, but Ben Burgess wanted to send one out) which will be an interesting comparison.

 

[Clive]

If I look at how much soil it's moving and compare that with the amount of metal I used on the Mzuri or Claydon drill, it's not a huge amount. As you say, price will be important.

I think the Carrier or Joker would be an obvious other option. What I really like about the Terrastar is it doesn't compact the soil at all. This means that you can work it in slightly damper conditions and the lumps that are left behind are in an uncompacted state. If you then let it dry and roll it, all of the "clods" fragment beautifully and give a really nice seedbed.

Have a Joker coming on demo (not that we need one, but Ben Burgess wanted to send one out) which will be an interesting comparison.

the lack of consolidation would be my biggest concern - I think you might be creating slug nirvana possibly ? if you're rolling after then great but if you cant I would be aware !

 

[Feldspar]

the lack of consolidation would be my biggest concern - I think you might be creating slug nirvana possibly ? if you're rolling after then great but if you cant I would be aware !

On OSR stubbles we have gone through twice, but separated by a few weeks. I know it's far from zero till, but the boiling action it creates I think will not do slugs that many favours. Hopefully the time separation will allow any slugs eggs laid to be exposed and desiccated. Have rolled all OSR stubbles post Terrastar too.

 

[York]

let's see how the speech is after replacing a set of blades. Not the money but the work. done it in my youth, don't need the experience again.
Look for used Horsch units. Horsch build in the late 80's / early 90's a trailed unit.
when replacing be very precise in lining the bearings and re tighten the axle & relining the bearing after each tightening of the axle.
Oh, greesing should also been not neglected, central automatic greesing is worth not only a consideration.
been there, done it, got the t-shirt.
York-Th.

 

[Pedders]

Look for used Horsch units. Horsch build in the late 80's / early 90's a trailed unit.
York-Th.

any idea what they were called ? I recollect seeing a drill combi on top of one but cant remember what it was called .....

 

[Hartwig]

This is a Horsch Spatenrollegge :

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/spatenrollegge-egge-scheibenegge/503566783-276-7592

 

[Nearly]

any idea what they were called ? I recollect seeing a drill combi on top of one but cant remember what it was called .....

Horsch DS/D3 pronto

 

[RBM]

Horsch DS/D3 pronto

I used to run one of those in the late 90s/early 2000s!

 

[Nearly]

I used to run one of those in the late 90s/early 2000s!

Trying to buy one from a mate

 

[Wessland]

TerraStar alternative?

 

[hollister]

TerraStar alternative?

Kelly harrows, I used one in canada infront of the Bourgault drills. Incredible bit of kit, nice even working depth minimal working parts and huge work rates. I think Weaving machinery is UK dealer.

 

[Bob lincs]

I've got an 11m Phoenix rotary chain Harrow / prickle chain I want to sell if anyone's after one . Look for them on YouTube to get an idea of what they do .
Robert