JDJ
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- Brædstrup, Denmark
This thread is manly just for information, but it would be great to hear comments and opinions on the machine.
During the last days of our spring barley drilling an old friend now working at the Danish Kuhn import called me and asked if I was interested in trying their new model of a No till drill "Aurock"
I thought that could be quite interesting to try out a compare to our own Horsch Sprinter.
From the pictures I found on Google I didn't think much about it, but when it turned up is locked really well build, and heavy. 8,7 ton for the 32 Coulter version and 9,3 for the 40. It has a front tool bar with wavy disks to cut open to soil and a wheel packer and double disk for drilling. This demo unit also had a cross cutter in front but we didn't try to use it.
The machine has tow hoppers, which goes to their own distributions heads. It means that it will put seed and fert together but it also has a lot of neat options, your can close halfe of the outlets on the front hopper and the other half on the rear hopper if you want to drill tow different kinds of crops on the front and back row. Our you can even lift one of the rows up to have double row spacing.
It was quite high to fill our 6 meter telescopic loader can only just reach in.
At first it was surprisingly heavy to pull. The 240 hp New Holland was one it's knees most of the time only doing 6-8k. After lifting the cutting disk up from 8 cm from the previous demo to 4 it was a little better, and after taking some of the pressure of the seeding toolbar it was a lot better and it still managed to place the seed and fert in 3,5 cm.
We drilled in the wheat stubble and a pour cover crop established late due to the wet and late harvest in Denmark last year.
Jacob.
During the last days of our spring barley drilling an old friend now working at the Danish Kuhn import called me and asked if I was interested in trying their new model of a No till drill "Aurock"
I thought that could be quite interesting to try out a compare to our own Horsch Sprinter.
From the pictures I found on Google I didn't think much about it, but when it turned up is locked really well build, and heavy. 8,7 ton for the 32 Coulter version and 9,3 for the 40. It has a front tool bar with wavy disks to cut open to soil and a wheel packer and double disk for drilling. This demo unit also had a cross cutter in front but we didn't try to use it.
The machine has tow hoppers, which goes to their own distributions heads. It means that it will put seed and fert together but it also has a lot of neat options, your can close halfe of the outlets on the front hopper and the other half on the rear hopper if you want to drill tow different kinds of crops on the front and back row. Our you can even lift one of the rows up to have double row spacing.
It was quite high to fill our 6 meter telescopic loader can only just reach in.
At first it was surprisingly heavy to pull. The 240 hp New Holland was one it's knees most of the time only doing 6-8k. After lifting the cutting disk up from 8 cm from the previous demo to 4 it was a little better, and after taking some of the pressure of the seeding toolbar it was a lot better and it still managed to place the seed and fert in 3,5 cm.
We drilled in the wheat stubble and a pour cover crop established late due to the wet and late harvest in Denmark last year.
Jacob.