About as good as it gets for anyone I would of thought
Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery
- Thread starter strip-till-phil
- Start date
- Location
- East yorks
Looks great and better than my good as it gets
- Location
- Darlington
Dawsum 3rd wheat wet feet
Same field, same drill Bairstow into cultivated headland, headland was supposed to be OSR 23 harvest but didn't make it
(I can hardly walk on it)
Same field, same drill Bairstow into cultivated headland, headland was supposed to be OSR 23 harvest but didn't make it
Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
Last field drilled to WB, just coming up.
- Location
- Foothills of the Quantocks
Topped off the leftover pumpkins and whacked in ~300kg wheat/rye blend. Possibly this drill's last outing with us, looking at a new Avatar or Horizon for next year and have had both on demo.
My experience with direct drilling into pumpkins is it's better to leave them whole otherwise the whole field becomes super glue.
Just have to accept that the following wheat crop won't be perfect.
- Location
- Foothills of the Quantocks
Tried that once, got about 10 yards before all the discs were wedged solid!
I suppose my 3m gd has full width squashing ability, front Ritchie press and dual wheels.
Went fine on whole pumpkins, flailed literally stuck like glue and couldn't drill it.
Interested to know your thoughts on the Horizon.
- Location
- Foothills of the Quantocks
I really liked it. Less slotty than the Avatar, excellent seed placement and much much better from a user's point of view (ever tried to empty a folded 4m Avatar?). The airbag press wheel downforce was great, and many components seem to be off-the-shelf. (for example, those airbags are standard lorry cab suspension bits). The RDS box was better thought out than the ISO kludge Horsch uses.
I didn't seem to get any good pictures of the Horizon.
I think I could just about pull a 6m Horizon with my 7480, too. Waiting to see how the quotes compare now.
- Location
- East yorks
Nice looks very dry
I like the Horizon. Angled discs and angled press wheel ensures better coverage of seed imo.
Our local dealer has their 6m ex demo for sale
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Claydon drilled and rolled too. Champion at 200kgs/ha on the 8th Oct.
Narrow band so I changed the A shares after this field.
I’m thinking about one. My GD makes a nice job on most of our ground and establishment is generally very good…BUT on our lighter soils the discs just don’t want to turn. I don’t want to go away from the angled disc, hence the Horizon could be a viable alternative.
ollie989898
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All these crops look very very well considering the weather we have had.
- Location
- Somerset
What seedrate are you using?
That field was 160 kg/ha. I can’t remember what the TGW was though.
- Location
- Somerset
guess thats the benefit of earlier drilling.. ours drilled a week or two later at the same seedrate doesnt look half as thick as that
Into October we upped it to 190 kg/ha.