Horsch front hopper

[AKA]

I am looking at front hoppers to sow seed and fertiliser together blowing it from a front hopper to a rear mounted toolbar. Has anyone got experience of the horsch partner 2000ft? Good and bad points.

Tia

 

[Chae1]

@Clive

 

[Clive]

I am looking at front hoppers to sow seed and fertiliser together blowing it from a front hopper to a rear mounted toolbar. Has anyone got experience of the horsch partner 2000ft? Good and bad points.

Tia

yes we used one this winter / spring and I’ve just bought one along with a iso blockage monitor system

couldn’t fault it really, probably the best front hopper on the market right now, has enough capacity with pressurised hopper to cope with 12m working width at decent seed rates, well made, logical iso interface, easy to calibrate, nice intergration of lights and storage space etc

 

[AKA]

All good then Clive, was yours the double tank version?

 

[Alistair Nelson]

I am looking at front hoppers to sow seed and fertiliser together blowing it from a front hopper to a rear mounted toolbar. Has anyone got experience of the horsch partner 2000ft? Good and bad points.

Tia

Just ordered one myself a twin outlet twin metering device one and as clive said about the best on the market as you'll never be short of capacity with the pressurised hopper and after that looks well thought out and laid out and a tidy design.

 

[Clive]

All good then Clive, was yours the double tank version?

yes split tank x2 metering unit, you can remove the split to use it as a single large hopper so quite versatile

 

[AKA]

Clive did you run seed and fert down one pipe to the back into a single distribution head or blow them separately? @Alistair Nelson what toolbar will you be running on the rear?

 

[Alistair Nelson]

I’ll be running mine with either a 4.8m weaving GD coulterbar or a 4.8m farm force tined Coulterbar.

Both at present only have one distribution head and single entry coulters at present but will have second distribution heads fitted and Coulters modded double entry overtime. This will allow either grain and Fert drilling or 2 different crops to be drilled either in the same rows for cover crops so mixing in the drill or in different rows like companion crops between the rows of rape. If that makes sense

 

[AKA]

So if you were putting fert and seed on together would you mix down one distribution head so they are placed together or go seperate with the fert spout putting the fert more on top of the seed row?

 

[CAF]

Got one here this spring...... sowed beans, oats and barley with it. 60/40 split hopper. Put TSP down with the beans and DAP down with the oats and barley. Was a bit concerned about how the seed and fert going down the same pipe would work, how it would handle oats with a specific weight of .55 compared to Dap at 1.05... and how the would distribute but happy how it worked out. Didnt block any spouts. Sealed hopper is very good, no fert dust around hopper or front of the tractor. It’s working with a kr power harrow at the moment but have the option of a different toolbar in future if we decide to go down a different route. Picture is of oats into sumo’d ground

 

[CAF]

Need to be careful filling big bags in the field that they don’t hit the cover, didn’t happen to us but I would imagine it would twist the cover and then you would have problems with it sealing. The bags swinging actually come quite close! Ours was an ex demo unit. Also that extra minding, this is ours washed, oiled, metering units out and cleaned , motors off and wd40 sprayed on them.

 

[Zebbedee]

@storming

 

[Zebbedee]

How much seed and fert will they hold?

 

[CAF]

I used the 40 side for fert.... and could get about 750kg plus in there, in the 60 side could get 1ton of wheat or beans but oats maybe 700kg? Usually just put a half ton bag in each. Didn’t want to push it too much...it’s only on a T7!

 

[Alistair Nelson]

So if you were putting fert and seed on together would you mix down one distribution head so they are placed together or go seperate with the fert spout putting the fert more on top of the seed row?

In this case down separate pipes because at 4.8m would be a lot down one pipe and rather than go 2 x 2.4m sections for half breeds which could then go down the same pipe wanted to go full width to allow different crops down different rows potentially. If that makes sense

cheers

Alistair.

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Need to be careful filling big bags in the field that they don’t hit the cover, didn’t happen to us but I would imagine it would twist the cover and then you would have problems with it sealing. The bags swinging actually come quite close! Ours was an ex demo unit. Also that extra minding, this is ours washed, oiled, metering units out and cleaned , motors off and wd40 sprayed on them.

Are you working on 2 x 2m sections or a grain head and a Fert head?

 

[CAF]

Yep 2x2m.... it has a manual half width shut off but didn’t use it. If I was over lapping just reduce the seed rate. Will get a picture of the metering units when get back to the yard. Might explain it better

 

[CAF]

Only downside that I have come across is that you can’t increase or decrease the seed and fertilizer separately on the go.... both go up or down together. Small flap moves over to shut off one side.

 

[Clive]

Clive did you run seed and fert down one pipe to the back into a single distribution head or blow them separately? @Alistair Nelson what toolbar will you be running on the rear?

yes we used it with a 6m drill and ran seed to rear down one pipe - it coped fine with 250kgs/ha of wheat and bean seed at about 12kph no problem

if used in 12m or with seed and fert we will run x2 pipes back

 

[Chae1]

Only downside that I have come across is that you can’t increase or decrease the seed and fertilizer separately on the go.... both go up or down together. Small flap moves over to shut off one side.

That sounds quite a big downside to me.

We run grain and fert on Amazon avant front tank. Fert often at 370kg/ha and seed 200-250. Quite often tweak them individually.