MF disc box drill changes for DD?

devon6400

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Mixed Farmer
Just picked up my new drill
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Spud

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
I'll get a few pics for you. Not bad really. One field of wheat better than the other, the worst one was disced up last harvest (lesson there, made that mistake before!) The oats after the cover crop is a lot better than those without cc. Beans a bit variable, it dried quickly after we drilled them in wet conditions, crows hammered them too. Wait and see job - seed off the heap, bit of pdm & clomozone and shut the gate for now. If they still look a bit crap in another month, we'll sow a few oats into them and call it cover. Better that than combining half a ton of crap beans in November then finding its too wet to sow the wheat afterwards.
Neighbour borrowed the drill to sow some wild bird mix into similar ground, so we'll see how thats turned out.
Your drill looks good, mines missing the transport wheels - we move it on our drop flat low loader. Has yours a leading single disc running before the seeding disc?
 

devon6400

Member
Mixed Farmer
Gave it a wash and got quite a few spares including a new full set of discs. Just a single disc
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. It’s is missing one seed cup and tube if anyone has a spare they are willing to sell?! [emoji6]
 

Eifion3

New Member
Just jumping on to this conversation! A mf 30 or a 500 would be no good to drill swedes into sprayed off grassland? Been offered one nearby cheap.
 

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