- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Actually we were ploughing in failed OSR but for reasons of keeping my sanity I like to call it my cover crop not OSR .
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Drilling anyone?
- Thread starter kevindb880
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Drilling....?
Just!
Plough & combi territory for us now, have a second rigged up as well. Trying to plough down spud mess post all rain-running/ponding etc.
Passable....
400 acres after this-if it does not dry sometime in November-it just is not going to happen, as it is worked well, but worked. May try & plough back up to get some slab to drive on-decent ground-where big dose Roundup flex has left red leathery OSR stalled from 6th September! Clear ground-go straight in.
To sum up, in hands of weather-though looking forward to the last 85 acres of beet-as that will be a doddle in comparison! If beaten will get 55% in, rest will go spring wheat if necessary-which I have. Many east & west of here done(next to) nothing.
Just!
Plough & combi territory for us now, have a second rigged up as well. Trying to plough down spud mess post all rain-running/ponding etc.
Passable....
400 acres after this-if it does not dry sometime in November-it just is not going to happen, as it is worked well, but worked. May try & plough back up to get some slab to drive on-decent ground-where big dose Roundup flex has left red leathery OSR stalled from 6th September! Clear ground-go straight in.
To sum up, in hands of weather-though looking forward to the last 85 acres of beet-as that will be a doddle in comparison! If beaten will get 55% in, rest will go spring wheat if necessary-which I have. Many east & west of here done(next to) nothing.
Some big furrows Dave ..... skid marks .Managed to plough a field and started drilling it this afternoon . Had to go round a small bit of standing water . Hope it’s dry tomorrow to get it finished .
- Location
- North West
Managed to sneak a bit more in today, hopefully get another good day tomorrow before more rain!
DRC
Member
Yes, not the best ploughing I’ve ever done. You have to ebb her up to get up the steep bank and I was going like the clappers. Power Harrow soon hides it.
One bag of seed to go !
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not having a pop but I do wonder what it's like underneath when these steam rollers have been over it. Must be more forgiving than our soils. Do these rigs get the wheelings out or just scuffle some squadd over them?
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
It’s pointless looking over the hedge. You can only use the conditions you find in your own fields.
DRC
Member
Maize ground was ploughing up quite nicely. Still got heavier stuff that you can’t go near yet
- Location
- south norfolk
Another selection from today.only about 9 inches of topsoilover clay and been subsoiled before ploughing.really soggy and wet and worse after it poured for 10 mins but I was determined to finish it.worst conditions I’ve ever drilled and headlands even worse and rutted.at least the seed is buried.last picture having to wash the drill again after soil blocking between roller and coulter bar.luckily only one blocked disc all day.must have washed the drill a dozen times this year aswell as digging it out and piles of soil all round yard.only barley to go and lighter land and not rolled.end is in sight.
Nick...
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Managed to walk over a field of land ploughed,power harrowed and rolled six weeks ago. Could maybe drill it at the weekend if it blows some more.
DRC
Member
My sister near to you, said they actually managed to plant some strawberries with the machine, not by hand, today.
Bro in law hasn’t drilled anything else though.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
There is very, very little drilled from Grantham to Grimsby on any non-root land.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Yesterday I managed to plough the last few acres of a heavy field I got rained off in last week
Hopefully I can get this drilled tomorrow.
Then moved into another field which can be a bit tricky, it's old meadow ground and can stick to even slated boards like snot to a blanked some years but this year it ploughed up well. It always seems to me that ground always seems better after osr.
@Nick we missed the rain, it looked bad about and I thought we were going to cop it when I headed home to get the drill at 2.30.
Hopefully I can get this drilled tomorrow.
Then moved into another field which can be a bit tricky, it's old meadow ground and can stick to even slated boards like snot to a blanked some years but this year it ploughed up well. It always seems to me that ground always seems better after osr.
@Nick we missed the rain, it looked bad about and I thought we were going to cop it when I headed home to get the drill at 2.30.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Glad some are getting drilled up but it's so frustrating that we can't turn a wheel. You start questioning your own judgement for when to go, but I am still fairly certain it's not dry enough yet. No neighbour's going either.
When we resort to the power harrow combi its a last ditch attempt //// feckin raining again here now !!!
- Location
- south norfolk
You where luck.it poured for a while making everything stick.the two rainbows wher nice though.did you get it @CarbonfibrefarmerYesterday I managed to plough the last few acres of a heavy field I got rained off in last week
Hopefully I can get this drilled tomorrow.
Then moved into another field which can be a bit tricky, it's old meadow ground and can stick to even slated boards like snot to a blanked some years but this year it ploughed up well. It always seems to me that ground always seems better after osr.
@Nick we missed the rain, it looked bad about and I thought we were going to cop it when I headed home to get the drill at 2.30.
Nick...