drilling misshaps

[Hammer]

View attachment 731404 Ok hands up here
Strip till drills make it look a lot worse
Patching in today

Very true. How are you patching in?!

 

[Case290]

Blocked coulter

Gps nightmare

 

[Case290]

Drilled but seeder shaft slipping turning the thing to say it’s turning but not the seed roller. Could have been a lot worse

 

[Brisel]

Skylark or lapwing plot. Big enough for EFA fallow?

 

[General-Lee]

Oh dear @Case290 well done for posting!
Come through pretty unscathed couple misses at start where the atu lazily steers to the line and one field with a steep sidling bit the drill crabbed but only one way, and I stupidly didn’t override the gps.

 

[jonnieboy]

Very true. How are you patching in?!

I took all the legs off except the ones I needed, left coulter pressure spool in float and set rate at 1/3
Hopefully it will look ok in a few weeks

 

[Mr Charisma]

Not going to say to much till it's all up but I handed the role of drillman over to the new pup ( didn't want to but you have to give them a chance )
Okay he has greenstar to help him but he has made a pretty fair job so far

 

[coastalarableman]

I have been drilling exclusively on our farm for 6 years, OSR with a combi drill, wheat and spring crops with a weaving tine drill.... for the first time ever I have no tramline f**k ups! Still plenty of drilling to do though- tramline misses or extra tramlines almost exclusively as a result of the children coming in for a 10 minutes go on the tractor with Daddy!!!
They are also to blame for the straw swath behind the combine going from near perfectly straight (no GPS) to wobbling all over the place. Baler man luckily sees the funny side!

 

[dannewhouse]

only problem … an end coulter blocked on a X roads, 5 acre field 1st field drilled 3 bouts then blocked. I now have a nice double coulter missing every 6 meters! (realised when I checked coulters on 3rd headland run!)

you can see them from the "parallel" road and from the 90 degree road! haha
I thought the stick had started in the pub but it was a local wanting to know what pre em was, couldn't understand it.

is it worth filling them in somehow?
otherwise about 1 in/out a bit short.

 

[mixed breed]

I've no explanation for this
Least its away from view and will be eaten off next week

 

[robbie]

Had 3 blocked coulter pipes for a round and a half.
Turns out when the drill was folded up a leaky ram seal had drilled oil into the pipes near the manifold and the oil had got into the pipes.

I knew they were blocked after about 50 yards and dispite cleaning them out every 50 yards they just wouldn't work so had to go home and change them.

Three blocked pipes all next to each other and on one end. Luckily well away from too many prying eyes.

 

[JCfarmer]

We have some very wiggly drilling when the bloody gps steering started playing up again! If I had been on it I would have driven manually on that field but hey ho. If case don't sort it I will change colour! Will post pictures when it comes up, right by the road as well!

 

[robbie]

I haven't got gps but I have got a couple of wiggies when I was trying to fly my drone manually while drilling.

 

[dannewhouse]

have 1 field where I have crabbed along the banking, marker is set on wheel, is it a lot easier to judge the "crab" on a centre line?
I hate the wheel marker but dad is insistent its better than centre, next time he's not near me drilling I am altering it!!!

 

[JCfarmer]

Centre marker by far the best and easiest to keep straight speaking from 25 + years of drilling by eye. Gps brilliant though when working right!!!

 

[dannewhouse]

I agree, definitely better for straight, is it better to notice crabbing?
I seem alright working my way up a slope but working down I end up wide, but I don't feel it when im drilling 1st I know is when crop emerges.

 

[Dman2]

Ok
Here`s mine
Couple of weeks back put a link to a youtube vid of wife and I drilling winter barley
This is the bit I edited out

This is what happens when you try multitasking
IE flying a drone and driving a tractor and drilling barley
I forgot to put the PTO into gear
Am now left with a great mound in the middle of the field
Although it does`nt seem to have made any difference to the crop that the pto was not going round

 

[Will 1594]

@Case290 did you drive round the mole hill , are moles in your stewardship . I have one small miss on headland ,not dropping in soon enough ,but when a horse girl goes past up the green lane bit more interesting than looking up field ,