Grass with a combi drill

[Deereman]

First time drilling grass with a combi drill this year and wondering what's best to do? cross drill it or just lift the coulters up and let the following harrow do the work?

 

[yellowbelly]

We just let the counters tickle the top and, as you say, let the following harrow do the work.
Make sure the power harrow is making a nice tilth and run it with plenty of weight on the crumbler.
We only drill one way - 4" spacing is ok.

 

[David.]

As above, but I do drill twice on diagonals.

 

[michael N123]

Just lift the coulters up on our amazon as high as they’ll go and roll afterwards

 

[betterbreadbeef]

If it's a box drill particularly, or an air drill on a power harrow, be conscious of the fact the vibration from the harrow can cause grass seed to bridge and not flow properly. My only way around it has been to put a 2ac pack in at a time and ensure it emptied correctly. Remove all Coulter pressure and all following harrow pressure and you'll he fine. If the following harrow happens to gather the stubble up you'll get some very big skylark plots. Coulters can block very easily on grass and be a long while to spot, so be conscious of that too. Best of luck!

 

[milkloss]

As above, but I do drill twice on diagonals.

how does that work? Grass doesn’t like being too deep and the power Harrow must bury most of the first pass surely.

 

[David.]

I worried about that first time I did it, but never a problem. PH is only tickling top of ground that has been flat rolled, in order to even out wheelings and make inch of loose tilth.

 

[nick...]

I’ve drilled plenty of grass with an amazone combination with discs.ive cut seed into the ground and its worked very well.
nick...

 

[Munkul]

Cross drill at half rate with a kuhn/accord here, first pass coulters as loose as they'll go, second pass even higher again with the harrow and coulters just tickling the ground. Seed buried around 1" depth, maybe a bit deep but the emergence is spot on.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Don’t know why people worry so much about sowing grass seed, have sown with combination drill your years no problem no half rates or cross sowing, just crack on as you would sowing anything else just alter the depth of seed

 

[texelburger]

I sow it at about 10mm depth and put tramlines in,always works well.This is for 4 year less.

 

[A1baz]

Might give this a try next year. What row spacings are you guys using?

 

[yellowbelly]

Might give this a try next year. What row spacings are you guys using?

4"

 

[ffukedfarmer]

This was into ploughed ground. It’s come on a fair bit since I took that.

this was straight into a worn out lely. Grazed hard before going straight in with the combi drill.

 

[Ormond]

I prefer broadcasting grass seed then rolling in. Used our amazone combine drill to sow westerwolds....not spaced out even enough for me. Had good results this year with our ATV pulled vicon varispreader....fast too