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<blockquote data-quote="Hartwig" data-source="post: 2626848" data-attributes="member: 1256"><p>If I narrow my perspective on basically the most important farming job of putting a seed in the ground to make it grow and have in mind that we agronomically have to drill our cereals later in the autumn because of blackgrass and insects matched with my gut feeling of changing weather means more rain when we don`t want it at drilling time ..... then the last thing that would make any good on heavy soils is a heavy trailed drill that needs a heavy strong tractor to get the power on the ground just to pull this drill over wet ground that only needs its weight to have enough penetration downforce in dry hard soil when the hopper is empty !!??!!</p><p></p><p>Shouldn`t we rethink our vehicle concepts coming to the conclusion that something like the tool-carrier tractor-concepts from the mid of the last century wasn`t that bad ?? Putting seed, fertilizer and anything else on the lightweight-tractors frame, driven on 4WD modern wide tyres with as low pressure as possible and having the toolbar with the seed openers bolted rigid to the frame, enabling it to put only as much downforce on the openers as even needed and only as much pressure on closing wheels as wanted if wanted at all in the wet and having every excessive kilogram on driven wide tyres - shouldn`t that make it possible to drill at times and in conditions when our forefathers used to drill with MF135-type tractors with sometimes making a mess because of poor tyres, but they rarely made a damage to the soil because of it`s lightweight.</p><p>As said, only looking at drilling - I agree that we need different concepts for different jobs but what would be wrong to add weight to the tractor when we need it at carting heavy trailers by loading some of the stuff on the tractor frame, like the Unimog-concept ?? I`m always amazed when a lightweight Unimog with 24to-trailer comes to the farm it seems he can hardly pull the empty trailer, but after loading 4to on the Unimog he is boss of the full trailer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hartwig, post: 2626848, member: 1256"] If I narrow my perspective on basically the most important farming job of putting a seed in the ground to make it grow and have in mind that we agronomically have to drill our cereals later in the autumn because of blackgrass and insects matched with my gut feeling of changing weather means more rain when we don`t want it at drilling time ..... then the last thing that would make any good on heavy soils is a heavy trailed drill that needs a heavy strong tractor to get the power on the ground just to pull this drill over wet ground that only needs its weight to have enough penetration downforce in dry hard soil when the hopper is empty !!??!! Shouldn`t we rethink our vehicle concepts coming to the conclusion that something like the tool-carrier tractor-concepts from the mid of the last century wasn`t that bad ?? Putting seed, fertilizer and anything else on the lightweight-tractors frame, driven on 4WD modern wide tyres with as low pressure as possible and having the toolbar with the seed openers bolted rigid to the frame, enabling it to put only as much downforce on the openers as even needed and only as much pressure on closing wheels as wanted if wanted at all in the wet and having every excessive kilogram on driven wide tyres - shouldn`t that make it possible to drill at times and in conditions when our forefathers used to drill with MF135-type tractors with sometimes making a mess because of poor tyres, but they rarely made a damage to the soil because of it`s lightweight. As said, only looking at drilling - I agree that we need different concepts for different jobs but what would be wrong to add weight to the tractor when we need it at carting heavy trailers by loading some of the stuff on the tractor frame, like the Unimog-concept ?? I`m always amazed when a lightweight Unimog with 24to-trailer comes to the farm it seems he can hardly pull the empty trailer, but after loading 4to on the Unimog he is boss of the full trailer. [/QUOTE]
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