KV I drill thoughts

[NasherXL]

Currently looking to move towards a onepass setup for our crop establishment. We have been working away with a MF 30 until now but looking to move forwards a little.
A very fresh kv/accord i drill with disc coulters mated to a kv powerharrow has come on the market locally, all seems straight and ready for work and comes with a fair heap of spares.
On doing a bit of research it seems like they aren’t as well thought of as earlier accord drills? Also someone suggested the kv powerharrows aren’t as well thought of as other brands.My only experience of powerharrows here is with an old Lely roterra with the automat shearbolt system occasionally borrowed from a neighbour but it has become so worn it’s not worth borrowing, any stone bigger than a tennis ball makes me nervous when I’ve used it recently.
Any thoughts on the kv setup would be very helpful. Also planning going to look at a few amazone combis which are for sale locally.
Thanks

 

[Rnold]

I am not an expert on long term ownership of a kv I drill but last winter when we were all floundering about in the mud, I managed to buy a second hand one to get us out of trouble and get the wheat drilled. I like it from users point of view, its easy to set up and use, accurate and did a good job of placing the seed in what where difficult conditions.

The power harrow on mine was the medium weight S model. It has smaller diameter rotors which I find better on clay type soils. The drill is mounted on the roller which most companies now do and is much better than mounting hard to the PH as it allows for better flexibility in set up and is more robust.

As to reliability, I can't comment as I have not owned it for long enough or done enough work with it (about 400 acres and it had done 2000 acres when I bought it).