Home made machines

Bob lincs

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Arable Farmer
Like it!! Been thinking of doing something similar myself, what metering and distribution head did you use?? Are they your own booms?
I used 2 accord metering units , Lely Polymat drill fan , 2 24 outlet accord distribution heads and an RDS Artimis Lite controller with gps speed censor . The machine was originally a sprayer so i used the existing boom as it is alloy Pomier and very light
 
I used 2 accord metering units , Lely Polymat drill fan , 2 24 outlet accord distribution heads and an RDS Artimis Lite controller with gps speed censor . The machine was originally a sprayer so i used the existing boom as it is alloy Pomier and very light
Bob how does averdex affect accord metering ,and what you doing wed night , a few of us at the anchor ,half seven
 

Tommy

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Location
North East Wales
Had a couple of hours on it today
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Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Nice soil. And cultivator. Never seen wheels like it. Are they used in depth control? Most cultivators similar to that have packers for depth control.
 

CivikS

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Nice soil. And cultivator. Never seen wheels like it. Are they used in depth control? Most cultivators similar to that have packers for depth control.
We have light soil almost 80% of all farm, there is some heavy clay to, but not much of it. The wheels like that was from Russian machines. arch type wheels. They are wide and fairy cheap ones. :) Yes, the design is copied from Horsch FM cultivator, when you can take off the packer. We didn't wanted packer, because in wet time there is problems with packers.
 
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Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
Another thing I have done which gave me immense pleasure was working with New Holland to develop the Dual Stream Header. It was their idea and concept which we first tested in 2013. Then in 2014 it nearly got scrapped because it wouldn't fit on a Combine using tracks. So I came up with the idea of changing this
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into this
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The trouble was that removing the Central Rollers and Frame meant that the whole knife carrying assembly lost rigidity, because the knife itself is very flexible. The Single acting ram lifting mechanisms would jam and prevent the system from being lowered from its upper transport position (to enable it to be put on the Header trailer) to its lower working position.

So I converted the system to Double acting to force it to go down. Having done so, I could now fit a 3rd ram over the heavy drive gearbox on the RHS to take its weight, rather that leave it drooping whilst in the upper position.

As my machine was a prototype, New Holland were reluctant to do these modifications themselves. Because having proved that DS works just as well without Rollers, they scrapped the prototype and sold it to me. So it was up to me to find the solution.

For the 2015 production models, New Holland solved the problem by fitting 4 of their lifting assemblies, being 2 on each side.
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Removing those central Rollers also had another huge advantage. Being that we no longer needed a very expensive and complicated Header Trailer, with wheels at each end rather than a Tandem axle trailer with wheels just aft of the middle. This alone will save future NH DS users more than £10,000!

Just to make sure it would work, rather than buying a Header trailer, we copied a well known brand, and slightly modified it so that the DS Knife now rests on its own bit of trailer frame. This is the one shown on that video.

We enjoyed building that too!
 
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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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