Kuhn Megant Tine Drills

[Brisel]

@admin @Clive

How do I take a screen shot of a spread sheet please? I'd like to upload a sheet as a picture.

Ta.

 

[fergie35]

press print screen on your keyboard with the spreadsheet open, then go into paint and press paste, then save the image and upload here.

Or Press print screen, and then create a reply here and just right click paste, and it will insert the screenshot into your post.

 

[Clive]

@admin @Clive

How do I take a screen shot of a spread sheet please? I'd like to upload a sheet as a picture.

Ta.

I recommend this https://app.prntscr.com/en/download.html

download it - its very easy to use, you select area and copy / paste it spright to the forum, even highlight bits with arrows and boxes etc if needed

 

[Brisel]

Nope. Still not working. It seems to take the shot ok but I can't paste it into a reply.

 

[Brisel]

Try this - I printed the sheet off then scanned it in as a pdf & attached it here. I have manually written in the cell columns & rows so you can see how the formulae work.

@Beretta

 

[MidLincs farmer]

Just looking at a second hand one of these. It would be mainly used to drill beans and be working behind a powerharrow/cultipress. Just a few questions if anyone who has experience of them would be kind enough to answer.

Firstly would it be capable of putting beans in at say 3"?

Would we need a different roller to do so and are they easily exchangeable if so?

Given we will be working on reasonably good cultivated land would there be any need for the paddles that it has on the front?

Can track eradicates be retrofitted?

Also any other tips and recommendations would be greatfully received!

Much appreciated.

 

[Jon]

Beans yes, pleased with mine.
Track eradicators van by retrofitted as paddles.
If you mean metering unit by rollers, it copes fine.
I'm very pleased with my drill, copes with trash well too.

 

[JCfarmer]

Bought a new 6m Megant last autumn, very pleased with it. Wheat emerged nice and even, electric metering works great with the Quantron box and easy to calibrate, extremely cheap to run. High output drill. All we are trying to do is put a bit of seed into soil, why make it complicated or expensive? My thoughts anyway and after Clives trial with different drills, broadcast and carrier gave the highest yield? We run through with a carrier then in with the drill.

 

[T Hectares]

Used my old one for beans, but struggled to get more than 2.5 inches, I'm sure in the book it quoted a max depth around 2.75 inches crops were fine though.

The metering unit will cope with all seeds with no cassettes being used, the body just winds out to expose more or less metering unit.

I always thought ours was terrible in trash compared to the Vad though !!

Not a bad drill if that's the style you are after though.

 

[MidLincs farmer]

Thanks for the replies folks, much appreciate. We currently drill beans with a carrier tine box drill but when the tines are in work it kinks the pipes up and tends to bung. It's a bit of a crude affair really but will ram seed in ground if things get desperate. For an increasing acreage of beans and with the potential to drill cereals should the need arise the Kuhn doesn't sound a bad option.

 

[Flat 10]

Just looking at a second hand one of these. It would be mainly used to drill beans and be working behind a powerharrow/cultipress. Just a few questions if anyone who has experience of them would be kind enough to answer.

Firstly would it be capable of putting beans in at say 3"?

Would we need a different roller to do so and are they easily exchangeable if so?

Given we will be working on reasonably good cultivated land would there be any need for the paddles that it has on the front?

Can track eradicates be retrofitted?

Also any other tips and recommendations would be greatfully received!

Much appreciated.

I've never had one but I've seen one so;
Surely would put beans in 3" deep, thought it was difficult to hold a tine drill out?
Paddles on front could be handy if you don't PH it as half a cultivation pass, look a good idea.
track eradicators can be added to anything. Get generic ones from spaldings etc and weld brackets.
My experience of Kuhn products is positive.
So yes sounds ideal.

 

[Oat]

Thanks for the replies folks, much appreciate. We currently drill beans with a carrier tine box drill but when the tines are in work it kinks the pipes up and tends to bung. It's a bit of a crude affair really but will ram seed in ground if things get desperate. For an increasing acreage of beans and with the potential to drill cereals should the need arise the Kuhn doesn't sound a bad option.

I used to use the same. I tried all sorts of combinations of pipe arrangements, but at the end of every run, I always had to jump off the tractor and check for blockages. It was always worst at higher seedrates, although I also found that I couldn't get the metering unit to go above a certain seedrate anyway.

For OSR I once fitted a Stock Micrometer to the lid of the hopper and had the seed pipes from it running into the main seed pipes of the drill. This worked OK, but in a min-till situation the unused tines tended to block up with trash (I was drilling at about 30cm rows, but had tines about every 15cm staggered across 3 rows). The only other problem was that since the Micrometer was electric driven, the tractor speed had no effect on seedrate, therefore when I decided I want to go a bit faster, I had to recalibrate.

After a couple of years, I changed to an old tine drill with a Vicon/Accord air drill fitted on top. This was a lot better, it handled beans and OSR much easier, and the metering unit was landwheel driven

 

[scottishsnake]

Bought a new 6m Megant last autumn, very pleased with it. Wheat emerged nice and even, electric metering works great with the Quantron box and easy to calibrate, extremely cheap to run. High output drill. All we are trying to do is put a bit of seed into soil, why make it complicated or expensive? My thoughts anyway and after Clives trial with different drills, broadcast and carrier gave the highest yield? We run through with a carrier then in with the drill.

Hi, would you say the Megant was more a min till drill, or capable of genuine direct drilling, should a bloke find himself wanting to move that way? Trying to future proof myself here, seems like the krm, sabre tine and dale mtd would be claiming to be true dd capable, whereas Kuhn aren't really claiming dd in so many words, and the tines do look lighter... but I do have a very good kuhn dealer locally....

 

[David.]

Well, the Kv version certainly isn't DD.
Ok, it might scratch osr/covers etc, into kind soil with straw cleared, but no more.

 

[scottishsnake]

Well, the Kv version certainly isn't DD.
Ok, it might scratch osr/covers etc, into kind soil with straw cleared, but no more.

Aye, that's what I'm worried about. Took my first venture into min till a few years back never thinking I'd look to do it on heavier land, now I have an absolutely mint 4year old drill that does the light land well in min till, but now I'm getting the hang of it on heavier land it can't keep the discs in the ground. Looking to not make the same mistake again, since DD woud be the natural progression.

 

[JCfarmer]

The kuhn megant is not a direct drill, fine on mintil etc. However there is someone on here who has put some vaderstad narrow points on a tine drill. Not sure if they are dding with it but I think the points are about 40% the width of the originals and may do a similar job to a sabre tine?

 

[scottishsnake]

The kuhn megant is not a direct drill, fine on mintil etc. However there is someone on here who has put some vaderstad narrow points on a tine drill. Not sure if they are dding with it but I think the points are about 40% the width of the originals and may do a similar job to a sabre tine?

Well the sabre tine is another option, although they only deal direct, but they seem to have a good reputation, would you say the sabre was a wise way to go to cover plough min till and DD? There's also one that krm do, it looks like it has real narrow almost subsoiler without wings kinda points. Then there's the dale mtd... Not easy all this when you're too far to go and see them all working, nobody really doing DD or much min till up here

 

[JCfarmer]

Sabre tine I think would be a good option be it KRM, Amazon, Weaving......, sabre tine should drill in any tillage non tillage perfectly ok. I was thinking of asking metcalf if they would do a sabre tine point to bolt on my kuhn megant.

 

[scottishsnake]

Well now, that's a bit of a steer, if you're looking to get a weaving type point on your existing drill, maybe that's the direction to be looking for myself. That sabre tine point seems to come up a lot as being the kiddie for budget DD. I always thought the sabre tine was a thing specific to weaving? maybe I'm wrong there

 

[Pilatus]

So after all this time how do you rate your Kuhn Megan’s Tine drill. I see a local estate has one as well as two Horsch drills and apparently the Megant has been able to be go when the Horschs couldn’t this spring.