Drilling Headlands

[db9go]

What do people do drilling headland first or last with a trailed drill using wheel or tracked tractor

 

[Boysground]

Nearly always drill headland last

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[alomy75]

What do people do drilling headland first or last with a trailed drill using wheel or tracked tractor

Last if it’s really wet and you’ve churned the headland up. First if it’s dry.

 

[APJ]

Sabre tine 6m here if it’s dry headlands first, but once it turns sticky middles first. Or small fields just drill them round and round.

 

[Rnold]

Always drill the headland last whether using a trailed or mounted drill. Quiet often you will have marked the headland width out with wheelings when you sprayed the land off so its not difficult to map out where you need to start and finish each bout.

 

[Driller]

Headlands last, if it’s damp I’ll send someone in with the ripper to loosen aswell, I’ve been caught out before with wet compacted headlands.
Although this year I might have to drag out the mounted drill if 2024 keeps giving.

 

[FMF74]

Always headlands last starting from the inside out.
I do have the luxury of RTK and section control.
Track tractor

 

[Boysground]

When i had my 1st trailed drill we would mark the headland with a cultivator to give a mark. So 4 turns round with a 6m. All on gps now so just go where i like. Very handy with steep fields

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[Flintstone]

Always headlands last here.

 

[David.]

In an ideal world, you'd plough the headlands last and then drill them.
We don't live in an ideal world.

 

[yellow belly]

headlands usually first
but some times leave the hedge side headland in damp conditions

 

[HarryB97]

Always last, inside to out

 

[Two Tone]

When conditions get dodgy, it’s always best to drill the headlands first and jam them, rather than jam the headland and drill them.

 

[Chae1]

Always last. Rip them up with a cultivator when ups and downs finished. Then drill them.

 

[Brisel]

It depends. With a drill that might struggle to cut the seed into driven on ground, I would do the headlands first. Some farms I've worked on with Rapid drills did the headlands first, some last.

Otherwise, do headlands last. I have a spray wheeling mark to work from so planning ins & outs isn't difficult.

 

[Fish]

wet or dry , always last

 

[Jo28]

First if dry last if wet.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Always first in no till

 

[alomy75]

Always first in no till

Assuming you have a disc drill and it won’t put the seed into a compacted headland?

 

[SilliamWhale]

Assuming you have a disc drill and it won’t put the seed into a compacted headland?

Don't often find headlands are compacted personally. But prefer to put it in first and I never visually or spade wise see much compaction