drilling misshaps
- Thread starter Bobthebuilder
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- northumberland
dug
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- Location
- North Island, New Zealand
if there wasn't photo evidence you would never know
15 odd years ago I had one the the first electric drive drills in my area. It had a KEE system out of Australia which is now owned by Topcon. The system worked great however the early rate controllers had a minor glitch in that you could enter the Setup mode while drilling and unbeknown to me for the first part of the first season the motors were stopping without the shaft alarms coming up...... I had a few random patches to fix up which I did ASAP but one of the jobs was for a client who had just won Farmer of the Year in our region and was having a field trip around his properties before the the patch up was all grown over.
Out comes the white marker pegs to make it look like a trial...... It worked a treat, I was on the field trip with plenty of people who would have taken the pish.... No one said a word.
JDJ
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- Brædstrup, Denmark
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JDJ
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- Location
- Brædstrup, Denmark
Made a handful of these, combination of small hydraulic pump on the 6930 and the Horsch sprinter using a lot of oile. Not a problem going up and down the field, but when doing the headlands I am a little more carefully on the throttle, witch means that on the 4. run it will lower the pre em markers and the timer will stop before it actives the metering unit.
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- south norfolk
You can't worry about that.i started drilling barley.put 500 kg in drill and had a look after about 2.6ha and run out.re filled and re drilled a round and thought all ok.when it came up it wasn't so re drilled a bit more.had this happen twice in same field.last bit of wheat I drilled ten days ago was very wet and muddy and had lots of coulter blockages,not seen till pipes filled and seed came out the top of tubing,on amazone box drill.obviously not up yet but will be loads of misses and right beside the road.will wait for the phone calls asking if I got tramlines for sale
Nick...
Nick...
John 1594
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire
You need to get a camera to put in the hopper. Ive not run out once since we put the camera in, can run it right down to the agitator shaft every time
spikeislander
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- bedfordshire
As above the best thing I ever did was put a camera in the box. Big plus point is that I can see the seed being blown back into hopper on the tramlines which have stuck before so just a quick glance after tramline run gives peice of mind.
- Location
- south norfolk
That's a good idea.ive got a monitor in the tractor and camera in rear of cab.dead easy to add another camera.thanks boys
Nick...
spikeislander
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- Location
- bedfordshire
If you have an old magnetic beacon base bolt it to that, give yourself some spare cable then you can swap it about easily. I move mine to the osr seeder box it is just as handy as your running the box lower and the hopper sensor beeps when there's loads left.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Nope the cameras can see in the dark ...that pic is with the hopper cover shut
Depth collar has slipped on the vaddy, can't believe how easy it was pulling, drilling at 4" deep only drilled half of it like that
Tell everyone it was to give a chance to spray roundup a month after drilling and still not kill any wheat?
Fraserb
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- Scottish Borders
Thats mine with the lid closed
That is the new plan, just as long as it makes it through
Its been way to dry here and not been anything like the BG flushes we had last year, could be a bad year for BG here
where would I get a camera and monitor from?
ridger
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- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
No no no you want to inspect your crops using a motorcycle