Fertiliser Spreading

[Bobthebuilder]

all singin all dancin amazon, got it for a snip at a farm sale of big coop place only done 1 season when we got it, half way through our first season and just getting used to it, 6ft long 3/4" galv pipe with combine knife section bolted on for cutting bags

 

[Cowabunga]

This is a billhook

Heavy and built to cut heavier trash.

This is a sickle

I find the sickle, with a long tube handle welded on instead of the short wood, to be ideal for opening fertiliser bags from a safe distance. Not only is this a safe and effortless method but it keeps hands and clothes clean.

 

[rob1]

This is a billhook
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Heavy and built to cut heavier trash.

This is a sickle
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I find the sickle, with a long tube handle welded on instead of the short wood, to be ideal for opening fertiliser bags from a safe distance. Not only is this a safe and effortless method but it keeps hands and clothes clean.

mines longer than yours, bill hook that is

 

[Cowabunga]

mines longer than yours, bill hook that is

Ah but you haven't seen my long shaft, or the way I use it.

 

[mushnt grummmble]

Ah but you haven't seen my long shaft, or the way I use it.

Dipped in birds or ambrosia?

 

[Ashtree]

Actually on the calibration front - if I am still on the remains of last years fert I copy the settings I used then. For new fertiliser I always start with a field that will be done multiple times (most of them) and use the setting obtained to adjust last years settings.

What are settings[emoji40]

 

[M-J-G]

Through time you learn that it's best not to focus on what you don't like doing, and just get it done.

I find every job is a means to an end, you either enjoy the whole job of farming or you don't. Each task is either enjoyed because you're happy whilst doing it or you're happy because it's done.

It's important to keep sight of the big picture and not bother to dwell on trivia.

 

[Stuart J]

This is a simple question:when coming out of a tramlines and turning right onto the headland, in which order do you shut off your spreader shutters? Left then right? I find it really hard to picture what's happening behind as I turn!

 

[jackrussell101]

Left then right I reckon

 

[Refco]

This is a simple question:when coming out of a tramlines and turning right onto the headland, in which order do you shut off your spreader shutters? Left then right? I find it really hard to picture what's happening behind as I turn!

Left one first, about half way through the turn. Shortly followed by the right one, just as you finish the turn into the headland tramline.
That's how I've done it for a while now.

 

[fermec860]

Zetors left the Brno factory with front tyres like that from new

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Left one first, about half way through the turn. Shortly followed by the right one, just as you finish the turn into the headland tramline.
That's how I've done it for a while now.

same here

 

[Yale]

See they do still sell new ones and people buy them because they suit.

Not a GPS or a wire in sight.

Our recent purchase.

 

[Kevtherev]

See they do still sell new ones and people buy them because they suit.

Not a GPS or a wire in sight.View attachment 314442

Our recent purchase.

Still the best for grass seed [emoji106]

 

[RDL]

Still the best for grass seed [emoji106]

They used to come with a towing eye to attach a chain harrow, tickle in the grass seed after sowing, all in one pass, proper progressive farming.

 

[nick...]

My dad had a vicon when i was a kid,probably 45 years ago.can remember band on spout getting damaged and the old boy using it got an old metal pail handle,bent it to shape and tied it on with baler twine.
Nick...

 

[An Gof]

Still the best for grass seed [emoji106]

Disagree, haven't looked back since we changed to drilling, rather than broadcasting, grass seed 30 years ago.

 

[M-J-G]

Grass will grow fine either way, but clover will definitely do better broadcast as it's more of a surface seeder.

 

[Henarar]

Put spreader on tractor set to 40 put a bag in and off we go round and round the field if it looks to be going to fast or slow that is what the gearbox is for {variable rate spreading sometimes], I am not sure what distance I drive I spread so much lime I can't drive any different and cant drive wrong even if I wanted to
I like the job Henry didn't though as he use to fly of the passenger seat on the humpy fields downhill and hit the windscreen

 

[Henarar]

Why have you got the front tyres on the wrong way?

So he don't know if he is coming or going

 

[bert]

Put spreader on tractor set to 40 put a bag in and off we go round and round the field if it looks to be going to fast or slow that is what the gearbox is for {variable rate spreading sometimes], I am not sure what distance I drive I spread so much lime I can't drive any different and cant drive wrong even if I wanted to
I like the job Henry didn't though as he use to fly of the passenger seat on the humpy fields downhill and hit the windscreen

I also use variable rate, when I come across patch that's not doing so well I slow down abit with the gearbox