Combine harvester “Weed Seed Mills”?

[Pilatus]

Does any one have one of the above fitted to their combine (Seed Terminator marketed by Zurn UK) (Redekop Mill), if so are they able to mill blackgrass seed as the seed is so small? In theory the idea seems good but I dread to think of the cost of the mill, ok if it works otherwise a waste of money.

 

[Timbo1080]

Also the Harrington Seed Destructor. Very useful in Australia i believe, as many of the weeds pass through he combine at harvest. Blackgrass tends to have shed before the combine arrives in the field unfortunately....Much the same as Wild Oats. May be useful for resistant Ryegrass if/when we get that problem as the continent seems to have already. Looked into chaff carts a decade or so ago.....Or fitting a baler to the combine.....Always find spreading chaff a problem, especially with wider header widths.

 

[D14]

Does any one have one of the above fitted to their combine (Seed Terminator marketed by Zurn UK) (Redekop Mill), if so are they able to mill blackgrass seed as the seed is so small? In theory the idea seems good but I dread to think of the cost of the mill, ok if it works otherwise a waste of money.

Yes there’s definitely a unit working somewhere here because I’ve seen articles written about the farm. They are on CTF whoever it was.

 

[Flat 10]

There was an organic farmer who had made one to go on a deere 1177 that was featured in FW relatively recently I think......

 

[Tractor Tim]

2 or three page article on this in the weekly this week think it gave the pros and cons I have a feeling they said it struggled with blackgrass as the seed was so small

 

[DanniAgro]

Does any one have one of the above fitted to their combine (Seed Terminator marketed by Zurn UK) (Redekop Mill), if so are they able to mill blackgrass seed as the seed is so small? In theory the idea seems good but I dread to think of the cost of the mill, ok if it works otherwise a waste of money.

£80,000 cost, and I don't know if that includes fitting! Not to mention the 80hp needed to drive it, the farmer trying it said he'd need a bigger combine.

 

[Pilatus]

I see in this weeks Farmers Weekly that some farmers have managed to get some grant funding, to purchase the above and do a trial to see if they work in terms of reducing grass weeds etc. It will be interesting to see how the trial progresses.

 

[Pilatus]

A Hampshire farmer featured in an article about his combine weed seed mill, did mention it was very noisy, and some locals had complained about the noise, and at the end of the article said he wasn’t going to be using it this year.
Unfortunately I can’t remember which farming free magazine it was in, but it was only last month, perhaps some other TFF member can recall it.

 

[pdagriservices]

That chap up in the East Midlands that used to manage Farmeco has one on a axial flow I believe?

 

[Ben B]

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A Hampshire farmer featured in an article about his combine weed seed mill, did mention it was very noisy, and some locals had complained about the noise, and at the end of the article said he wasn’t going to be using it this year.
Unfortunately I can’t remember which farming free magazine it was in, but it was only last month, perhaps some other TFF member can recall it.

Far out. Worried about the locals and the noise. I would have told them were to shove it. It's for a couple of hours once a year.

 

[Lazy Sod]

Although I hated bagger combines, principally because it was me who had to do the bagging off and humping the bags of corn onto a trailer when I was a schoolboy, they had the advantage that the seconds and weed seeds were separated and bagged.

 

[Al R]

That chap up in the East Midlands that used to manage Farmeco has one on a axial flow I believe?

Yeah pretty sure Keith had a Redekop. He now has a Ideal 10T though

Found this.

Redekop weed smasher thingy

Does anyone have one or use one, seem like a really good idea and another tool in the box regards weed control.

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[DanniAgro]

Although I hated bagger combines, principally because it was me who had to do the bagging off and humping the bags of corn onto a trailer when I was a schoolboy, they had the advantage that the seconds and weed seeds were separated and bagged.

Exactly my experience, using International B64s; we actually had two, the first a bagger, which was a right pain when you had to stop and wrestle the large bags onto a trailer. The next was a tanker version, a big advance as far as I was concerned but which lost the separate catching of seeds.

 

[CPF]

Like I said in a previous thread it’s going to lot of negative comments in the uk

 

[Pilatus]

Any update on this thread title , after 2022 harvest?

 

[alomy75]

@ajd132 you’re trying one aren’t you?

 

[Tractor Tim]

Think Jake freestone tried one this harvest or similar got some video on YouTube

 

[ajd132]

Think Jake freestone tried one this harvest or similar got some video on YouTube

Yes myself, jake and ted Hughes’s are the ones trying them. Il put an update on later. If you join BOFIN ran by tom Allen Steven’s (its free) there should be webinars on there that we did in November with niab with all the details. Il have a look for it.

 

[Pilatus]

I appreciate “weed seed mills” presumably only pulverise stuff going over the sieves, ( not rotors), but if you run a seed mill have you noticed less volunteer grain growing behind the combine?
I ask the question after see PX farms video in which they are very concerned about the volunteer wheat coming up in the W Barley.

 

[ajd132]

I appreciate “weed seed mills” presumably only pulverise stuff going over the sieves, ( not rotors), but if you run a seed mill have you noticed less volunteer grain growing behind the combine?
I ask the question after see PX farms video in which they are very concerned about the volunteer wheat coming up in the W Barley.

Less volunteers but if you are rowing straw up you still get the strip behind. It’s good against volunteers. However We took the mill off and didn’t use it this year.