Duet coulters, opinions please.

[dragonfly]

I am interested to hear the views of farmers/operators of Duet coulters fitted to Horsch drills.
Any experiences, good or bad?
Their performance in dry or wet (last year!) soil?
Initially interested in an ordinary tine drill, how does the Duet compare?
Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

DDs will suggest they move too much soil which to be fair they do but as an around coulter for trash handling, penetration, ability to work in differing soil conditions, seed placement with the option for fertiliser placement they take a bit of beating.

 

[dirty harry]

V gd strong versatile coulter IMO, use dd or into plough anything from osr to beans, worked well for us in v wet conditions last autumn - well it grew against all odds!

 

[Steevo]

Very pleased with them here, also used for DD. Seems to perform well.

 

[dragonfly]

V gd strong versatile coulter IMO, use dd or into plough anything from osr to beans, worked well for us in v wet conditions last autumn - well it grew against all odds!

Its not to do with the coulters, but did the rear press wheels not tread the soil too much in the wet conditions?

 

[dirty harry]

Yes the tires made a bloody awful mess when we were desperate at end of last season, BUT....... It made a second wheat crop that grew and turned out respectable,

in the local area everything else done with tine drills and not consolidated failed basically.

Although I didn't think so at the time it actually helped by sqidging the seed in and not letting the water and slugs get too it.

Amazed us and some others who thought I'd lost the plot - inc me......!

Cheers dh

 

[RBM]

In the right conditions you can dd some crops, very good for osr establishment, wheat in the right conditions, but too high disturbance for real no till.

 

[dragonfly]

Yes the tires made a bloody awful mess when we were desperate at end of last season, BUT....... It made a second wheat crop that grew and turned out respectable,

in the local area everything else done with tine drills and not consolidated failed basically.

Although I didn't think so at the time it actually helped by sqidging the seed in and not letting the water and slugs get too it.

Amazed us and some others who thought I'd lost the plot - inc me......!

Cheers dh

Interesting post!

Thinking about it, we faired reasonably well with the Vaderstad, until we "over" compacted the soil, on headlands etc.

Later, in desperation, we used an old Carier tine drill. This was not a total success and I wasn't sure why?

Maybe your conclusion, could be correct!

 

[dirty harry]

Yep it was last chance coral really! Last 160 acres, 31 oct, had tried combi drill that was a disaster, couldn't get hold of a tine drill which at the time seemed to be the way forward so no choice but to do it really, also started raining with only 10 ac left to do, carried on regardless didnt dare look behind! 400 hp in diff lock on a 6m horsch was struggling its tits off and spinning! and by feb it looked normal where anything else drilled around here with tine drills failed, amazed me and others!

Just shows how versatile these drills are, nothing else I know of coulda done it.

Have to agree on headland compaction tho, not normally a problem but our headlands were shocking this time wheat was circa 2 ton / ac at best, middles a lot better thankfully!

Cheers dh