Moore Unidrill DP2

[Hawkes]

I have been offered a 1998 6.0 m folding Moore disc Unidrill that looks in fair order. It has accord hopper and hydraulic fan. Has anyone any experience with this set up. The only thing I can see looking at it is that it might need some weight carrying brackets added to get good penetration? We have been dd for 4 years with a tine Claydon but think a disc would bring less stones up , no doubt some years tines will still be better but this would be a cheap entry to try it out.

 

[clbarclay]

Is that the model without a press wheel in front on the discs?

My experience of the 3m box unidrill is they can benefit from a bit more weight at times, but the main cause of a lack of penetration at times is putting the 18" discs, for a heavier tandem unidrills, on a drill designed for 16" discs.

I made that mistake when I got mine and found it much better once the discs had with down to about 16"

 

[yellow belly]

i used moore drills
the wear on the coulters needs to be watched ceramic ones very good
bearing straight forward to replace

I also found that not going too fast saved bearings and coulters especially in dry conditions

 

[davidroberts30]

@hally

 

[hally]

@hally

No experience with the big ones but the old moores had plenty penetration by means of a hydraulic drawbar. Discs and coulter wear main issue as are expensive as are disc bearings and there are alot of them.

 

[YELROM]

@Adeptandy had one with the front press wheels

 

[Adeptandy]

I did for a short time, its now been replaced with the GD along with the Vaddy & Freeflow

 

[Hawkes]

i used moore drills
the wear on the coulters needs to be watched ceramic ones very good
bearing straight forward to replace

I also found that not going too fast saved bearings and coulters especially in dry conditions

What speed did you drill at?

 

[YELROM]

What speed did you drill at?

We drill between about 8-10k

 

[Hawkes]

We drill between about 8-10k

Well it is being delivered next week hopefully ........ few jobs to do on it, but I never seem to buy anything that doesn't need fettling.