- Location
- East yorks
6mm this morning, was lovely yesterday’s and since Sunday drying but just no where for the moisture to go.
Drilling anyone?
- Thread starter kevindb880
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very impressed yes
much better than the 750a in many respects, it really is a very impressive machine
12m has been very welcome both in amount we can get done on the few dry days we have had and also controlled traffic of any damaging wheeling
it has its limits though like all drills and we still have a lot to do yet
Most everybody's drills have been pushed to their limits, and well beyond, this time.
What will be interesting, in due course, will be to see just how the pics of all the big, heavy, machines working will morph into the pics of all the big, heavy, crops established in all those same fields.
I wonder how they got that out! That lot will be 35+ tonnes and will drag a lot of soil with it. Just because you can doesn't mean you should...
Don’t you think that’s half the problem today years ago with smaller tractors it was power/lack of grip what stopped you but today with high power tractors ect they keep going and cause long lasting damage to the soil
- Location
- norfolk
More horsepower just gets you further into the wet hole IME
They were suggesting getting a 360 in today..................but it rained last night so I`m not sure how it worked out.
Fish
Member
- Location
- North yorkshire
Yes, I await the subsoiling thread next summer/Autumn.
well at least our 3m subsoiler will now cover 12m each pass if we need to and only need to cover 2 out of 3 sets of wheelings !
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Classic power, duals and all !! Nothing wrong with that work the 3 metre combi I might not be the fastest but on the right tractor you can work straight behind the plough and establish a good crop without doing damage to the soil structure . Looks like this year the Ploughmen and combi users are going to get some crops over the ground before really bad weather . Next harvest when the farmers weekly are interviewing the 12 ton ha boys the most important question will be how was your crop established ?????
Colin
Member
- Location
- Perthshire
Yes, come next July, "xxx was slightly disappointed with 11t/ha"Most everybody's drills have been pushed to their limits, and well beyond, this time.
What will be interesting, in due course, will be to see just how the pics of all the big, heavy, machines working will morph into the pics of all the big, heavy, crops established in all those same fields.
yellow belly
Member
- Location
- south west lincolnshire
game over here will now wait till spring
no point in destroying soil to get a wheat crop in that will now leave less of a margin than a spring crop drilled with no soil damage
a poor spring crop is better than a poor winter crop
more beans and more barley in the spring
second cereal after spring barley drilled in good conditions leaves a better combined margin
no point in destroying soil to get a wheat crop in that will now leave less of a margin than a spring crop drilled with no soil damage
a poor spring crop is better than a poor winter crop
more beans and more barley in the spring
second cereal after spring barley drilled in good conditions leaves a better combined margin
Those wheel/track eradicator tines need deepening a bit!
You can't teach stupid .
To be fair, that lot may have been floating across a dry crust for the rest of the field until they found the wet spot. You don’t have kit that big unless you’ve got a lot of acres to cover so beggars can’t be choosers.
- Location
- Sedgefield
Well we ploughed it, and it rained, then dried a bit, then rained, then dried a bit, then we mauled it in Another 12 acre in the ground
Drove up the lane this morning, pee wet through again and about 40 bloody big geese paddling around in it... coz there’s a massive pond appeared in one corner
Lord knows what it’ll come up like
Hey ho.
RushesToo
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- Location
- Fingringhoe
That's not actually rocket science is it. We all know that.
Quite sad we need a research institute to confirm the knowledge.
Next July I'll be more than happy with 7 (and 8 in August)..
Hopefully starting up here again on or about the 10th.
In the meantime, the biggest problem now to try to overcome is to reconcile one's mind's eye picture of how the farm would look next June, as expected last August, with the dire reality.
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
I'm hoping I don't have 6m tramlines all year. Not gone in too well behind the wheelings.