Horcsh Avatar drill

[TWF]

Quite liked this drill but at 200kg per Coulter is that enough. At least it had some width (12m) and grain /fert tank.

 

[Andrew K]

@tomh ?

 

[ajd132]

You can lift the seed cart up on the 12m one and use that for extra weight. Can anyone guess on price? There's much less metal than a 12m sprinter

 

[BigBarl]

You can lift the seed cart up on the 12m one and use that for extra weight. Can anyone guess on price? There's much less metal than a 12m sprinter

Working the basis of £10k per meter, add half again because it's horsch and new, so would £180,000 buy one?

 

[ajd132]

Working the basis of £10k per meter, add half again because it's horsch and new, so would £180,000 buy one?

Unfortunately you are probably right!

 

[Sitting Pretty]

The justification being that they need it to be that price as they wont be selling you the various tillage options to go in front of it.

 

[ajd132]

A 12m sprinter is roughly 140k and there is now way near the amount of metal on the avatar, but they might charge more for the openers. Will be interesting to see, It looks a good drill

 

[Tom H]

We had a simple prototype that came late October after it had been in France. It was the 250mm spacing with a single row of openers. It looks like there big maize drill. Unfortunately condition meant we could do 100's of hectares. But what we did worked well. 12m with 250 ish Hp. It would be a lot less than a normal sprinter12m drill. If you wanted a closer spacing, it's a different design of drill. Two rows. Looks more like the big sprinter in seed cart, way more ££

 

[ajd132]

The design of the 12m one at 25cm rows looks very easy to change depth and do any maintinence.
Indont think 25cm is too wide either, what do others think?

 

[Louis Mc]

Too wide. A bit of compromise to have A brand new disc drill at that spacing in my opinion. Fair enough buying a very cheap 2nd hand time drill for use here and there. Maybe okay for beans rape and wheat but I'd want close for Barley oats and even cover crops