Drill build
- Thread starter Adeptandy
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- Location
- East yorks
Got a price in 2022 and it was around £320 a disc assembly
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I cant belive a drill that suits all has not been invented yet !
- Location
- East yorks
I think there are some excellent examples for all soil types and conditions about but sh!t years like this show some flexibility or options are paramount
Claydon surely is? Jack of all trade master of none
ccp contracting
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- Location
- Kent / Surrey border, UK
Surley if the drll gets seed in the ground and it grows in all conditions it is a master .
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I dont know im not arable but the array of drill on offer astounds me when we have all these years experience and its only sowing seeds …..
i think it has but it’s very expensive and too heavy when wet
problem is opposite situations require very different solutions - hard and dry needs weight / pressure where as wet needs light. think cover crop trash needs disc, straw needs tines
imo the ideal drill is a front hopper with a quick change choice of tine or disc toolbar
I’m changing my mind as it’s Christmas. Plough and Combi is the one drill, slow and surely establishes 10/10 even this year end off. The only reason there 200 min/zero drills is ever farm needs 4 to get their crop sown 10/10 and maybe a accord and Kuhn in the nettles
had and have seen plenty of rubbish or even failed combi drill crops in my farming career to date
it’s certainly a LOT easier though and requires much less skill / management knowledge …….. easy farming ( but expensive!)
Easy to say less management in the sunny south! Which can be true in a lot of cases. But in the wet west and northern areas of the uk it works and a lot don’t have hundreds of acres to spread expensive multiple drills across and or markets for different rotations it also works.
I mean the combo drill is less management / skill not the DD ! Successful DD requires far higher skill / management / knowledge requirement than a power harrow system
both can work and both can fail, when either fail it’s not usually down to the drill ime having failed with either option on more than one occasion before now
i’m not south or north ….. I’m kind of in the middle slightly towards the wetter west
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
That's why the fancy mintillers go for wider rows.Thanks
That kills that idea then as I’d need 38
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
£320 is about what i paid for my drillThanks
That kills that idea then as I’d need 38
166mm is wide enough on this soilThat's why the fancy mintillers go for wider rows.
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- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
In the Top Trumps of drills that method might score highly on Establishment % but will score 1 on speed.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
You'd only need a couple of mornings on the boilers to pay for thatThanks
That kills that idea then as I’d need 38
- Location
- E Yorks
I am building something similar on this thread
thefarmingforum.co.uk
Should have a copy of the 3D model next week but all coming together quite nicely as @Clive said easiest thing is to base it round a front tank that remove all sorts of issues and gives loads of adaptability and better weight balance etc.
good luck and crack on
New Build Tine based Rear End for Front Tank Drill
So we’ve modified, developed and pimped the rear tine based coulter bar of our Horsch front tank based twin outlet drilling rig as far as we can like triggers broom and it’s now time to produce the next evolution to take it to the next level from what we’ve learnt and utilising newly parts and...
thefarmingforum.co.uk
Should have a copy of the 3D model next week but all coming together quite nicely as @Clive said easiest thing is to base it round a front tank that remove all sorts of issues and gives loads of adaptability and better weight balance etc.
good luck and crack on