General-Lee
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- Devon
I’d say skill, I know I hate using a-b curve and with all that straight work would be annoying using curve track.
Driving around trees
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Cab-over Pete
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I’m dragging this from the depths of my memory and hope I’m not trying to sound more knowledgeable than @Farmer Roy (!!) but I seem to remember reading somewhere that trees are left to try and balance water tables on dry land.
I know that sounds wrong, but with limited water available I think it said salts can rise (or maybe get left too high in the soil profile or something
) and cause problems for cropping. The trees keep everything in balance and can be an indicator of salt presence if their growth can be seen to be affected in any way.
But I might have dreamed that up!!
I know that sounds wrong, but with limited water available I think it said salts can rise (or maybe get left too high in the soil profile or something
) and cause problems for cropping. The trees keep everything in balance and can be an indicator of salt presence if their growth can be seen to be affected in any way. But I might have dreamed that up!!
AndrewB
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- Kincardineshire
I’m dragging this from the depths of my memory and hope I’m not trying to sound more knowledgeable than @Farmer Roy (!!) but I seem to remember reading somewhere that trees are left to try and balance water tables on dry land.
I know that sounds wrong, but with limited water available I think it said salts can rise (or maybe get left too high in the soil profile or something
But I might have dreamed that up!!
Yea trees keep the water table low, a lot of the groundwater is saline in big parts of Australia. Once the trees are gone the salt comes up and you can’t grow crops. Some farms are planting shrubs to try and reverse this.
2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
when we had a mf30 drill we converted it to drive from both ends thus avoiding that problem. also changed the drive gears to sow fert from 2cwt/acre up to 405cwt/acre on the same set of gears.You can see that effect on an MF 30 drill driven from one end if you drive round a corner one way and then the other, effect might be magnified somewhat on that machine
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
405!!! That’ll grow some!
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- N.Lincs
I drove a 20m flexi coil and it was done by eye but after a few thousand acres you get the gift and it’s like writing poetry in the soil.
GPS must be a god send for my juniors some 20 years later. Also you can’t Bari rate across drill so some is over rate some under.... when you have 30,000 acres to drill you won’t worry! We used to find moisture then go another 4-6cm deeper! Happy days
GPS must be a god send for my juniors some 20 years later. Also you can’t Bari rate across drill so some is over rate some under.... when you have 30,000 acres to drill you won’t worry! We used to find moisture then go another 4-6cm deeper! Happy days
Stupid question! Why would you ever need to reverse! You don’t get anywhere in life and indeed Oz by going backwards!
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- N.Lincs
2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
should be 4.5 although never used that amount.Hungry land up there in Aberdeenshire
Cab-over Pete
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You don’t think I actualy read anything on here do you ;-)
glasshouse
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- lothians
All mf 30 drills are driven from both wheels
2wheels
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- aberdeenshire
you are of course correct, it was a 29. old age eh.
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Discussion in 'Agricultural Matters' started by Clive, Thursday at 5:36 PM.
Not even your own threads?
itsalwaysme
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Almost a Gerald Ratner momentDiscussion in 'Agricultural Matters' started by Clive, Thursday at 5:36 PM.
Not even your own threads?