Horsch OSR Tines

Northdowns Martin

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Snodland kent
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Are these available to retrofit or just proto types? And is anyone trying them this season?
 

Steevo

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Gloucestershire
I'm curious about your "work of the devil" comment. What don't you like about them? I've never found too much of an issue with them personally.

I can see your point about lifting the drill up a bit. I was assuming that the solos would be run at the depth of putting the seed outlet underground, but I guess it could be run above.
 
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Cambridge
I'm curious about your "work of the devil" comment. What don't you like about them? I've never found too much of an issue with them personally.

I can see your point about lifting the drill up a bit. I was assuming that the solos would be run at the depth of putting the seed outlet underground, but I guess it could be run above.
Because I think cultivator drills are an absurd idea. Also the back of the shoe is angled downwards so it smears the soil.

Have to admit I've never used an official Solo, so may be more difficult to get shallow depth with them.
 

Northdowns Martin

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Arable Farmer
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Snodland kent
From how I understand it the narrow point which looks like it has a tungsten tip is slimmer than the solo coulter can work down to 6", the seed is delivered down the black and yellow flexible tube which runs on the surface just dropping the seeds in the top 1/2". The solid steel tube running down the back of the point is available to place fertiliser.
 

Mr Mole

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Suffolk
They are made by JJ Metcalfe & Son,
They replace the deuett foot with a tine with a replaceable tungsten tip,the same tip is used on the seedhawk fert and seed legs which they also make.image.jpg
 

Mr Mole

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Location
Suffolk
As I don't pay the bills I don't know but I know they are a lot cheaper than the Horsch point or the Vadarstad seedhawk points.
So far we have covered 354ha with the seedhawk and that was at the point in time the photo above was taken.
 

RBM

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Arable Farmer
As I don't pay the bills I don't know but I know they are a lot cheaper than the Horsch point or the Vadarstad seedhawk points.
So far we have covered 354ha with the seedhawk and that was at the point in time the photo above was taken.
They look pretty good & better for trash flow? Will you be using them for direct seeding wheat as well?
 

Mr Mole

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Location
Suffolk
We are very pleased with it,we have gone from duett to Bougaut but these tines are very low disturbance and so very low fuel use,with lower running costs we must be on a winner.just tell Mike Metcalfe you found out from Belchamp Farm Services he will love us for it !!!
 

RBM

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Arable Farmer
We are very pleased with it,we have gone from duett to Bougaut but these tines are very low disturbance and so very low fuel use,with lower running costs we must be on a winner.just tell Mike Metcalfe you found out from Belchamp Farm Services he will love us for it !!!
I was just debating whether to put the bourghault fittings on our sprinter to have a choice of point width, but sounds like it might be better to just go for that narrow tine option for everything DD!
 

Mr Mole

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Suffolk
We ran the Bougaut system for two seasons but found using a 5" A blade smeared the area where the seed was dropped even when it was dry,we used the bean coulter for OSR which worked very well and we was going to use that for DD wheat but then got offered the Metcalfe point which is 13 mm wide so less disturbance and a much better angle so it doesn't move the ground sideways .we have also removed the middle row of the following Harrow on our CO8 to make sure we aren't dragging to much dirt with us.
 

damaged

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Location
Gloucestershire
Looks like excellent low disturbance tine. Is it not, however, too wide spacing for cereals like ww wb or oats at 25cm ( maybe even more on co8) or do you intend only to use on osr and covers?
 

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