Folding 4 meter combi recommendations

[jon9000]

After another wet backend I've about given up with the rapid..... it's a real pita in wet Octobers. Still a great drill and I'm intending on keeping it as you cant have too many drills seeing another post.

A guy local to us has a solitaire 9 which looks a great drill. Its main job will be drilling wheat after spuds. Drilling 2ww into ploughing.

It must have a disc toolbar are there any other makes I should consider. Going on the back of a cvx230.

Many thanks for thoughts and opinions

Jon

 

[Spud]

After another wet backend I've about given up with the rapid..... it's a real pita in wet Octobers. Still a great drill and I'm intending on keeping it as you cant have too many drills seeing another post.

A guy local to us has a solitaire 9 which looks a great drill. Its main job will be drilling wheat after spuds. Drilling 2ww into ploughing.

It must have a disc toolbar are there any other makes I should consider. Going on the back of a cvx230.

Many thanks for thoughts and opinions

Jon

Very nice folding Sulky combi on a tractor in Russells yard at Malton yesterday - looked like a demo rig.

The other one I'd be considering is an Alpego, Lemken struggled in tough going on demo here a few years ago.

We run a Pottinger combi on ADD discs. With a rubber packer as well, there isn't much stops it.

 

[goodevans]

Is lemken the only manufacturer that works with the hopper on the back,ours is on back of TM245 and seems to be heavy but I guess if hooked up for the season a front hopper would be better

 

[# Robin]

After another wet backend I've about given up with the rapid..... it's a real pita in wet Octobers. Still a great drill and I'm intending on keeping it as you cant have too many drills seeing another post.

A guy local to us has a solitaire 9 which looks a great drill. Its main job will be drilling wheat after spuds. Drilling 2ww into ploughing.

It must have a disc toolbar are there any other makes I should consider. Going on the back of a cvx230.

Many thanks for thoughts and opinions

Jon

I’ve a 4m rigid solitaire but it’s just so heavy, it’s no wet weather drill for when you’ve parked up the rapid. PH is amazing but personally I don’t find the double disc coulters great in marginal conditions, I’d rather a single coulter or tine.
I will sell it this winter so probably not the best advert...in good conditions it does a lovely job! Probably straight behind plough turning on headland be great

 

[Mark C]

horsch KR

 

[quattro]

Is lemken the only manufacturer that works with the hopper on the back,ours is on back of TM245 and seems to be heavy but I guess if hooked up for the season a front hopper would be better

I think Kuhn did a hopper at the back

 

[Flat 10]

Lemken do s trailed one which looks handy to me....

 

[glasshouse]

Is lemken the only manufacturer that works with the hopper on the back,ours is on back of TM245 and seems to be heavy but I guess if hooked up for the season a front hopper would be better

Front hoppers are a pita , but in extreme wet better as less weighton packer

 

[ben.williams151]

We have just delivered this, grower was considering moving away from P/H combi to a more minimal or direct approach, but with spuds in the rotation and the ever more catchy autumn's it was thought best to stick with combi. If required PH can be removed from frame and discs put in its place for a more minimal tillage situation.

 

[glasshouse]

Lemken do s trailed one which looks handy to me....

No use in wet

 

[glasshouse]

We have just delivered this, grower was considering moving away from P/H combi to a more minimal or direct approach, but with spuds in the rotation and the ever more catchy autumn's it was thought best to stick with combi. If required PH can be removed from frame and discs put in its place for a more minimal tillage situation.

That would disappear

 

[Flat 10]

We have just delivered this, grower was considering moving away from P/H combi to a more minimal or direct approach, but with spuds in the rotation and the ever more catchy autumn's it was thought best to stick with combi. If required PH can be removed from frame and discs put in its place for a more minimal tillage situation.

Smaller wheels than the ones I have seen.

 

[Exfarmer]

That would disappear

That would scare me trying to put it on many fields after spuds I have seen , especially in the last couple of years

 

[Fish]

That Lemken thing should come with winch, it's just about the dimmest combi I've ever seen.

 

[glasshouse]

That Lemken thing should come with winch, it's just about the dimmest combi I've ever seen.

Local estate bought one, they couldnt pull it up hills

 

[glasshouse]

The horsch kr is the best Pity they dont make a 4m

 

[Battlefield Machinery]

Kv front hopper, Df 1 combi.... only lemken have rear option, Kuhn did make a 4.8 or 5 for a while I think....

 

[Exfarmer]

Drilling in these conditions require minimum weight, and spread, when it gets tough going and the draft responds , with all the weight on the back, down it will go. Hopper and press on front is essential to balance this.
Duals all round or better still tracks and a lighter tractor would help too. There is plenty of weight in the Combi outfit you don't want to add more.

 

[Kildare]

Visited a large farm last year. They had a 6m and a 3m combi. The 6 m was on a case 330 on 1050 tyres.
The 3 m on 650s.
In extreme conditions when it was very wet the smaller outfit had better establishment.

 

[RAF]

I ve just got a 4m kuhn combi with disc coulters. Not the seed flex ones as I find then block in certain soil types in the wet. really nice simple light weight drill. Folding with a front tank look to heavy, and can squeeze through a 14ft gateway with mine,.
these drills now a days are way to complicated, you just want get on.