Drilling Aussie Style!

[farmerm]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=402436730343733

 

[Lincs Lass]

Does he want a drop of rain to slack the dust

 

[Landy Nick]

Bet they throw a few FFFF's having to go around those trees.

 

[Kevm]

When they go around a tree is there a computer to control seed rate or do they continue throwing the same amount of seed to the outside (which is now going twice as fast as normal) as there is to the inside which is hardly moving?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Does he want a drop of rain to slack the dust

The thing to remember is we are neatly always planting into a dry surface, but placing the seed into moisture underneath. Rule of thumb on heavy country is to only plant when you have at least a metre of stored sub soil moisture.
It's not a case of planting into dust & just hoping it will rain . . .
That's why zero till is the standard farming system here - to conserve soil moisture

 

[davidroberts30]

That's certainly not f**king about

 

[Goweresque]

Why on earth planting an area that size would you mess about trying to make it tidy round a couple of random trees? The amount of time wasted bears no resemblance to the area gained..........the whole operation has taken 7 minutes of time and fuel (and maybe extra seed) most of which will never be got back.

 

[Brisel]

When they go around a tree is there a computer to control seed rate or do they continue throwing the same amount of seed to the outside (which is now going twice as fast as normal) as there is to the inside which is hardly moving?

With 2 seed carts there will be at least 2 different seed sections. I don't know if there is any further subdivision of seed rates within each half. I doubt it.

 

[icanshootwell]

Bet they throw a few FFFF's having to go around those trees.

I bet he looks forward to the trees, it breaks the day up a bit. something different to do instead of driving straight even though the gps is probably doing that anyway.

 

[7610 super q]

And from a time when it was done properly....
Shallow ploughing is no till really, isn't it ?

 

[Jerry]

Does he want a drop of rain to slack the dust

Im actually amazed at how little dust there is give the width of that outfit. Ive thrown up more dust with a 6m set of rollers!

 

[Finn farmer]

I'd love to work on that kind of fields.

 

[Bury the Trash]

And from a time when it was done properly....
Shallow ploughing is no till really, isn't it ?

Ah yes, trip loaders and i wonder if that little into loading the super phos. Has power steering

 

[76masseyman]

Is that Zells seeder that used to be pulled by two JD’s coupled together ?

 

[Fraserb]

Is that Zells seeder that used to be pulled by two JD’s coupled together ?

Yeah that's the one.

 

[JD-Kid]

years ago when worked in Ozzie. big thing was not drilling between trees with a. 20 foot. drill cos a 40 foot harder. would not fit.

 

[Pilatus]

Why have they left the tree standing??

 

[DeeGee]

I really really thought that for once this post was going to be all about dentistry in Melbourne!

Strewth! Why on why does this forum never ever feature articles on Antipodean orthodontic matters?

Yours disappointedly,

Phil Amalgam, MAD Society,
Fosters Dental Practice,
Mount Sheila Street,
Melbourne.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Haha - I think I've seen this video of Zell's more times here on TFF than anywhere else

 

[Farmer Roy]

Zells are just down the road a bit, to the west, of the home base of these cotton strippers I've been running for the last 3 months

My own planting equipment at home is a bit more modest.

I have 2 x 8 m planters, one is a single disc the other is an old modified heavy duty tyne cultivator, both on 333 mm row spacings.

I have a 12 m double disc precision planter on 1 m row spacings & a 12 m double disc machine on 250 mm row spacing

All zero till

I do contract planting work, which is why I have a selection , I wouldn't have that many just for me, but I would still need a precision / double disc on metre or wider rows & winter crop planter on 333 mm or thereabouts row spacings