drilling misshaps

[Bobthebuilder]

come on don't be shy, there must be a few showing around the country by now, after my coulter problems and headscratching to work out a fix, its filling in nicely now ;-)

 

[Chickcatcher]

Someone needs a plane for the new planting idea down hear, come take a photo and post it could be 6mtr alternative cropping, now too wet to play at the moment. (cable break shutting of half drill width was the explanation)

 

[jh.]

Good job with the fix bob


Not even amazone can tell me why i keep up ending up with 2 outside better rows than the rest. First 2 pics ploughed 3 weeks before drilling so the patchy emergence is understandable but even in wide bouts , it grows in looking like overlap

We think its clods getting worked better due to clod board and power harrow side plates , giving better seed to soil contact and growing better. After my last machine having a double disc with press wheel , i think the amazone needs the press wheels but they dont agree as its not something they promote on their units.

Evens out after a few weeks , other than what looks like overlapping with the lusher outer rows. Neighbour's does it too and we have had nothing to do with setting up each others machine.

 

[glasshouse]

Its overlapping, double work and double sown, everybody does it with a power harrow drilll.
The outside two rows are outside tractor wheels.

 

[Fraserb]

come on don't be shy, there must be a few showing around the country by now, after my coulter problems and headscratching to work out a fix, its filling in nicely now ;-)

So far this year my only issue is one headland tramline 16m away from the hedge instead of 12m, better than last year when I managed to miss a few 4m wide strips the full length of the field.

 

[nick...]

Good job with the fix bob


Not even amazone can tell me why i keep up ending up with 2 outside better rows than the rest. First 2 pics ploughed 3 weeks before drilling so the patchy emergence is understandable but even in wide bouts , it grows in looking like overlap

We think its clods getting worked better due to clod board and power harrow side plates , giving better seed to soil contact and growing better. After my last machine having a double disc with press wheel , i think the amazone needs the press wheels but they dont agree as its not something they promote on their units.

Evens out after a few weeks , other than what looks like overlapping with the lusher outer rows. Neighbour's does it too and we have had nothing to do with setting up each others machine.

I get that too but agree with @glasshouse.my amazone is a box drill by the way
Nick...

 

[nick...]

Noticed a field opposite besthorpe church which has half the field with tramlines every 4metres.spect @carbonfibre farmer will know where this is as will a few of the norfolk possey
Nick...

 

[mushnt grummmble]

come on don't be shy, there must be a few showing around the country by now, after my coulter problems and headscratching to work out a fix, its filling in nicely now ;-)

your mrs will be mad as hell with you when she finds no tampons next "month"

 

[stroller]

come on don't be shy, there must be a few showing around the country by now, after my coulter problems and headscratching to work out a fix, its filling in nicely now ;-)

I've got some exactly the same, but too wet to re do at the moment

 

[glasshouse]

Can't see how it's double sown when u can clearly see i was running wide in the first picture. The chap from amazone agreed saying over lap can be easily seen and explained but this had him beat due to the wide bouts

Top left is due to seed being deeper sown behind the tractor wheels and slower to emerge. if you had duals on you wouldnt see it.

 

[jh.]

Its overlapping, double work and double sown, everybody does it with a power harrow drilll.
The outside two rows are outside tractor wheels.

Can't see how it's double sown when u can clearly see i was running wide in the first picture. The chap from amazone agreed saying over lap can be easily seen and explained but this had him beat due to the wide bouts. The wee "fannies" in the other pics shows wide splits with the 2 lusher rows.

 

[jh.]

Sorry deleted my reply to quote you and see you have since replied again

the bit between tractor wheels should match outer rows if it was the wheeling. Tractor on 710s at 15psi

 

[jh.]

As i said the patchy emergence can be explained as can a difference in wheelings but these 2 outer rows being lusher cannot , other than possibly better seed to soil contact

Amazone need to have a rethink on press wheels imo

 

[binbusy]

Jh, Are the outside rows are going in slightly shallower?

 

[yellow belly]

two outside coulter blocked so 4 together

but better to have heavy land planted and up without slug pellets than paddled in in November and a tonne or more yield loss

 

[jh.]

Jh, Are the outside rows are going in slightly shallower?

Depth limiters all set the same and checked pressure with luggage scales but nothing is obviously different

 

[binbusy]

Ok. Have you tried swapping the pipes at the distributer head, you will be able to rule that part to the hopper out then if it's still doing it

 

[Sandy]

Good job with the fix bob


Not even amazone can tell me why i keep up ending up with 2 outside better rows than the rest. First 2 pics ploughed 3 weeks before drilling so the patchy emergence is understandable but even in wide bouts , it grows in looking like overlap

We think its clods getting worked better due to clod board and power harrow side plates , giving better seed to soil contact and growing better. After my last machine having a double disc with press wheel , i think the amazone needs the press wheels but they dont agree as its not something they promote on their units.

Evens out after a few weeks , other than what looks like overlapping with the lusher outer rows. Neighbour's does it too and we have had nothing to do with setting up each others machine.

Just put the press wheels on then

 

[dazza b]

Good job with the fix bob


Not even amazone can tell me why i keep up ending up with 2 outside better rows than the rest. First 2 pics ploughed 3 weeks before drilling so the patchy emergence is understandable but even in wide bouts , it grows in looking like overlap

We think its clods getting worked better due to clod board and power harrow side plates , giving better seed to soil contact and growing better. After my last machine having a double disc with press wheel , i think the amazone needs the press wheels but they dont agree as its not something they promote on their units.

Evens out after a few weeks , other than what looks like overlapping with the lusher outer rows. Neighbour's does it too and we have had nothing to do with setting up each others machine.

Are the powerharrow side boards set right when goin down field is it leaving a little ridge at either side this could be the cause

 

[strip-till-phil]

Iv'e drilled around 100 acres of Crusoe not knowing 1 of the small grub screws had decided to come out of a pegged wheel on the Sulky metering system on my Claydon so no seed out of that coulter, there is only 13 coulter's on 4m drill so to lose 1 is a BIG gap

I'll get some pic's