Combi drilling close behind plough autumn 2019?

[Nearly]

Almost perfect set up. Skinny tyres on plow tractor wide ones on drill tractor.

Just a shame the drill tractor has a ‘ruined’ hung on the front of it!

I still consider 520's a wide tyre. 460's (18.4) would be the narrow option.

Wide tyres? You need at least 800s on for drilling. A front linkage and a press would look a lot better than the loader.

Have linkage and press but it would have been a bit sticky under the tyres once pressed.
@TripleSix tagged me in some terra's but if I can't be bothered fitting my duals then terras won't happen for 30 acres!
50% worn 600's will have to do.

 

[Boohoo]

All nice to have if money no object.

800s are a necessity here rather than a luxury, even in a normal year unfortunately.

 

[J 1177]

The clay here if ploughed up and power harrowed too soon afterwards breaks into cannon balls. Poughed up wet it power harrows into dough balls. Left to weather and it will crumble and form a tilth if you catch it right, when twice over with the power harrow and then drilling works well. Direct drilling tends to cut a slot in putty if its wet which fills with water. If its dry, its like concrete and the drill screeches along the top. Some of it is so pure and blue you could make pottery out of it. Some is yellow. i often think subsoiling is futile as it never dries at depth so the tine must be smearing at depth. Water has great difficulty geting through it. Its like a sealant putty, like JB weld.

Have you got my farm?

 

[Ormond]

Up here in Cumbria, on our small amount... this is the best option as if ploughed and left to get heavy rain on it, you'll never got on with the drill....

 

[Bossfarmer]

so it seems a combi drill is better in the autumn than a vaderstad sprinter drill, any other benefits or disadvantages to each, obvious one vaderstad is quicker, anything else?

 

[snarling bee]

Have you got my farm?

No, he's got mine!

 

[teslacoils]

so it seems a combi drill is better in the autumn than a vaderstad sprinter drill, any other benefits or disadvantages to each, obvious one vaderstad is quicker, anything else?

Depends. Combi on mine would make one hell of a mess. Vaddy will go better. Neither will go this week. No cultivation element needed this time of year here.

 

[Bossfarmer]

Depends. Combi on mine would make one hell of a mess. Vaddy will go better. Neither will go this week. No cultivation element needed this time of year here.

Why would it make more of a mess? Id have thought dragging the sprinter about would do more damage?

 

[Robm 1959]

so it seems a combi drill is better in the autumn than a vaderstad sprinter drill, any other benefits or disadvantages to each, obvious one vaderstad is quicker, anything else?

Our Combi is being put back in the shed as it’s got way too wet and won’t dry enough to use it now , a tined drill on its way from weaving in the hope we might be able to get something in

 

[Tompkins]

Started ploughing OSR stubble and following with combi on some of our easier ground. Few dodgy spots but generally going well.
Headlands where hedge trimmer has travelled are sopping wet though!

 

[goodevans]

Worse thing about a combi is it lets you do it when you shouldn't in my opinion

 

[teslacoils]

Why would it make more of a mess? Id have thought dragging the sprinter about would do more damage?

I don't need the Harrow to make the seedbed. My seedbed are prepped. I just need a Coulter to cut a slot , drop a seed, and cover it up. The pH would turn my delicate clay to blubber.

 

[farmerm]

The heavy land here
In the 1940s and 1950s spring barley on heavy land was the normal arable crop
In the 1920s and 1930s was grass and bushes
Drained and moled in the 1960 to 1970s. Cows
winter crops in the 70s to the 90s now 50% winter crops 50 % spring
The future any of the previous is possible

Question is how far back will the future take land use... I would guess in the 1600s it may have been untouched woodland....

 

[DrWazzock]

Girl's land, all of it. . It isn't ploughing over like solid shiny blocks of wax is it? Power harrow combi useless on that stuff. Tractor wheels squeeze it together. Power harrow makes it into lumps of putty. Coulters dance about behind feeding the rooks.

If I had land seen on this thread I could direct drill it all.

 

[Chae1]

Girl's land, all of it. . It isn't ploughing over like solid shiny blocks of wax is it? Power harrow combi useless on that stuff. Tractor wheels squeeze it together. Power harrow makes it into lumps of putty. Coulters dance about behind feeding the rooks.

If I had land seen on this thread I could direct drill it all.

Put up some pictures then?

So we can all see how bad it is.

 

[DrWazzock]

Put up some pictures then?

So we can all see how bad it is.

Hopefully it will be dry enough to plough next week. I will put some photos up then.
When/if it weathers/dries it might get drilled sometime between November and April with winter wheat or spring barley. Don't want to rush it as there is a fair flush of blackgrass in it.
Hopefully it will weather and be dry enough at some point to power harrow and drill same day with MF30.

 

[Mr Charisma]

Put up some pictures then?

So we can all see how bad it is.

To be fair to Dr W I tend to agree with him , anything you can plough and combi drill in the same day or even same week is easy going stuff

 

[jh.]

Put up some pictures then?

So we can all see how bad it is.

I can't seem to put up pictures these days from the app on my mobile . Also loads of other folks pictures seem to double up on the same image while viewing , so dunno if its a recent forum glitch ?

Either way I've not ordered any seed or planning any crops this back end as I have too much stuff that I feel is a challenge in a decent year , let alone one like this . Wet cheese that just smears behind the combi. Also double power harrowing is pointless as just stirs it around when wet .

 

[Chae1]

I can't seem to put up pictures these days from the app on my mobile . Also loads of other folks pictures seem to double up on the same image while viewing , so dunno if its a recent forum glitch ?

Either way I've not ordered any seed or planning any crops this back end as I have too much stuff that I feel is a challenge in a decent year , let alone one like this . Wet cheese that just smears behind the combi. Also double power harrowing is pointless as just stirs it around when wet .

Its actually easier to post pictures now. Click on box between chain and smiley face and do it from there. I couldn't do it either till someone showed me.

 

[Drillman]

I was trundling along yesterday on some nice easy land tight behind the plow and blocked the front press. Had a panic for a moment when forwards speed all but dropped to zero despite going downhill. Anyway I lifted the press and kept going to the end and after a few attempts of getting it to turn on the stubble it cleared itself.

Amusing bit was it isn’t my field and was right on a tramline.