Drill hopper camera

[Flintstone]

i did some searching here for comments and recommendations about a seed hopper camera system for a drill. Lots of good advice.

Mine arrived this morning and the total cost for the camera and monitor (with leads) was only £45.

It took three hours of rigging up and now it's all installed I have got another screen to clog up my cab! It's a great infra-red picture, and means that not only will I not have to worry about whether I've still got some rape seed left in the hopper, but also that I won't approach the wheat seed trailer at the end of a long run whilst thinking, "I wonder if I can squeeze another up and down out of this batch", only to find the Claydon drill's 10 second beeper goes off when I'm at the far end of the field again.

Happy to share details of where I bought it.

 

[spikeislander]

You'll certainly not regret it!

 

[Heathland]

Snap,
I've just fitted one on my combi drill today,got mine camera mounted on a magnet so I can take it out of the hopper and mout it on the back for doing the headlands.

 

[Flintstone]

Weird that we were both camera fitting today!

 

[Weare Cham]

This is something I want to do. Where did you get it, EBay?

 

[Flintstone]

Link below, and order summary. Ordered on recommendation of someone here.

I ended up buying a cheap length of power lead and ciggy jack, and powering the both the monitor and the camera from the cab with the same ciggy jack.

http://www.2seetv.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?page=search&SS=Vm355nv+&PR=-1&TB=O&ACTION=Go!

 

[Weare Cham]

Is it something that can be moved easily ie into a fert spreader hopper or do you think a second camera would be better?

 

[Flintstone]

If you do what @Heathland did with a mounting magnet, then yes it's easy to move between implements. I didn't really have any other use, so bolted the camera to the drill, and cable tied the leads to the rest of the leads that go up into the cab.

 

[Brisel]

I used a Bluetooth setup to fit 2 cameras to my Hybrid. One is on the back of the Micrometer at the top of the steps so the driver can see the back of the drill when he drives in/ut of the shed. The other is mounted underneath the rear deck so he can see any blockages in the centre of the drill in front of the batter boards where all bung ups seem to start. The advantage of the Bluetooth is that there is no wire into the cab. They just need power which is available on the drill where the rest of the electronics are anyway.

It did cost more than yours mind you...

 

[AF Salers]

Sorry to go off topic, @Brisel are you using bout markers on your hybrid? With my Mzuri I found that the block ups in the centre of the drill were often due to the trash being lined up to point at the leading tine/coulter by the bout marker. Not using them and driving by the gps system certainly helped when an issue.

 

[Brisel]

I only use markers for the headlands. Long work is done with autosteer. Most of the gear I have used blocks in the centre. Dunno why.

 

[Shutesy]

Sorry to go off topic, @Brisel are you using bout markers on your hybrid? With my Mzuri I found that the block ups in the centre of the drill were often due to the trash being lined up to point at the leading tine/coulter by the bout marker. Not using them and driving by the gps system certainly helped when an issue.

I found exactly the same with my DTS, again GPS steering has fixed that slight issue!

 

[Shutesy]

i did some searching here for comments and recommendations about a seed hopper camera system for a drill. Lots of good advice.

Mine arrived this morning and the total cost for the camera and monitor (with leads) was only £45.

It took three hours of rigging up and now it's all installed I have got another screen to clog up my cab! It's a great infra-red picture, and means that not only will I not have to worry about whether I've still got some rape seed left in the hopper, but also that I won't approach the wheat seed trailer at the end of a long run whilst thinking, "I wonder if I can squeeze another up and down out of this batch", only to find the Claydon drill's 10 second beeper goes off when I'm at the far end of the field again.

Happy to share details of where I bought it.

DTS came with in hopper camera and camera looking at the centre drill coulters behind the tank as standard

 

[Brisel]

That's because they regularly block up!

 

[Shutesy]

That's because they regularly block up!

Ssshhh Tim! Few mods from Sumo have soon sorted all that out

 

[Brisel]

Extended stagger kit?

 

[Shutesy]

Extended stagger kit?

That's the main one that helped the most.

 

[juke]

I only use markers for the headlands. Long work is done with autosteer. Most of the gear I have used blocks in the centre. Dunno why.

I know the mzuri n DTS are easy blocked if your not careful, but that must of been some jungle to block the claydon up.

 

[E_B]

I know the mzuri n DTS are easy blocked if your not careful, but that must of been some jungle to block the claydon up.

Takes a lot to block a mzuri from experience.

 

[Brisel]

I know the mzuri n DTS are easy blocked if your not careful, but that must of been some jungle to block the claydon up.

Easily done when there's a bit of moisture or long straw. Give it hot sunshine and it's amazing what you can get through it. This was the demo machine doing a dry run in badly chopped spring barley straw. The DTS & Vaderstad Spirit Strip TillI had 2 weeks before bunged up in conditions far better than that. The Mzuri handled this too.