My new drill #pimpmydrill part 2 !

[Clive]

Bought a "new" drill today !

few reasons, very cheap extra capacity for a hopefully increasing workload, solving of a few rotational problems that are not easy to overcome with a disc drill such as crops after straw crops like osr and 2nd cereals without removing straw

Taking advantage of exchange rates and what I believe is a far superior European spec for these drills (seed cart tyres, full width front packers and liquid fert system) this will be with me from Germany and in the workshop for some zerotill pimping before Christmas

At under £5k complete with liquid fert system and blockage monitors I reckon it's a bargain and hope to prove with it that zerotill doesn't need to be expensive to get into

This will run alongside my pimped 750a and give us capacity for a LOT of acres from our x2 724's both drills have their place and advantage over each other in various conditions / circumstance and rotational position but the 750 will still cover the vast majority of our current workload

Mods will include a change of coulters to something I'm planning on designing myself, drawbar modifications, distribution head change to let me play with row spacings, a recommended fan mod, marker arm and tramlining removal and tyre slime so pretty simple and basic stuff compared to the last project !

 

[Rob Holmes]

Is this 'increased workload' very close to me?

 

[RTK Farmer]

Was that from Brocks German cousin?

Edit
No not at that price!

 

[Clive]

Was that from Brocks German cousin?

No just some random German chap ! Very easy and nice people to deal with so far I have to say

 

[franklin]

At 5k thats cheaper than a cultivator of the same width.

 

[Clive]

At 5k thats cheaper than a cultivator of the same width.

Lot of metal for the money isn't it !

Some bargains in euroland right now - there is the cost of getting it to England to consider though but it's not terrible

I had thought it would make a cheap cultivator with some Fg wearing metal on it however I don't really have a need for one of them !

 

[Douglasmn]

5k!?!? That's unbelievable. Wouldn't an equivalent new model cost upwards of 60k?

 

[Sandy]

Lot of metal for the money isn't it !

Some bargains in euroland right now - there is the cost of getting it to England to consider though but it's not terrible

I had thought it would make a cheap cultivator with some Fg wearing metal on it however I don't really have a need for one of them !

How do you find these bargains in euroland ?

 

[Clive]

How do you find these bargains in euroland ?

the internet and them some hard negotiation !

 

[Clive]

5k!?!? That's unbelievable. Wouldn't an equivalent new model cost upwards of 60k?

at least that today I would guess prob more like 70-80k for a 6m current version ??

 

[Clive]

to put it into perspective this was cheaper than buying a set of the row cleaners I wanted for my 750a , a third the price of a new 3m OSR hoppered subsoiler type drill or as someone on twitter pointed out less than the cost of juts x2 bare cross slot coulters !

this will hopefully be VERY cheap zero-till

 

[Happy]

the internet and them some hard negotiation !

If someone put a post up on here asking after a drill they'd found on'tinternet like that they'd very soon be told it must be a scam at the price.

You have clapped eyes on the nice random German chap and his machine I take it

 

[Clive]

If someone put a post up on here asking after a drill they'd found on'tinternet like that they'd very soon be told it must be a scam at the price.

You have clapped eyes on the nice random German chap and his machine I take it

there are plenty to be had at or around that price in europe, in fact I missed a very rare one in the UK with fert a couple of weeks ago that was the same price but maybe not quite so tidy so its not particularly cheap compared to others, my homework will be well and truly done before I send anyone any money

seems there is no market for the older "bigger" kit like this

 

[Mad Farmer]

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This one is cheaper!!

 

[PSQ]

distribution head change to let me play with row spacings

Going by the last picture, it already has a distributor lid to shut off 2 out of every 3 outlets.
If its on Agtron electronics it can be modified (£500) to do VRA seed.
If there is a lot of sideways play on the legs, there is a modified / uprated leg holder ("flipper kit") to stiffen them up.
Apart from that, it looks a peach for £5k.

 

[York]

Lot of metal for the money isn't it !

Some bargains in euroland right now - there is the cost of getting it to England to consider though but it's not terrible

I had thought it would make a cheap cultivator with some Fg wearing metal on it however I don't really have a need for one of them !

if you do the transport via the 2 Dutch brothers even this will be very cost effective. Only think is you have to give them a little time. British CS was hauled by them to Germany for little money.
Which region you bought it out?
This drills are unfortunately "out of fashion", farmers are made to believe that they are not good, the pronto's are better. ;-)

So conversion kit from DK already ordered.... ;-)
York-Th.

 

[Clive]

This one is cheaper!!

Loads about for less if your not wanting liquid fert or the larger seed cart tyres but did the relatively little extra I felt both those options were worthwhile, this machine also seemed tidy and had a few nice extras like front packer and blockage monitor

They are real bargains though - as @York says very out of fashion just now !

 

[Clive]

Going by the last picture, it already has a distributor lid to shut off 2 out of every 3 outlets.
If its on Agtron electronics it can be modified (£500) to do VRA seed.
If there is a lot of sideways play on the legs, there is a modified / uprated leg holder ("flipper kit") to stiffen them up.
Apart from that, it looks a peach for £5k.

Thanks for that - Is the flipper kit a horsch part ?

My thoughts re distribution head are to run a co8 head with more outlets and add a few legs to get coulter spacing closer than 25cm as without the duets it will produce a wide row which is fine in osr but maybe too wide for wheat

That said my best ever wheat yield was a seed hawk on wide rows so not sure if I will bother with that mod or not

 

[Andrew K]

Spoke to Steve Burcham at Horsch last week, he said that it was difficult to beat DKA,s modified CO8 for minimal disturbance, despite having the new disc DD drill to sell!

 

[Clive]

Spoke to Steve Burcham at Horsch last week, he said that it was difficult to beat DKA,s modified CO8 for minimal disturbance, despite having the new disc DD drill to sell!

trouble with a tine is it simply won't allow you to do what I want to do with cover crops, if I had one drill it would be the 750a as it's the most flexible by far . There is no getting away from the fact that there are times when a disc is the best tool and others where a ULD tine is the best option.

I can't justify x 2 80k drills but if I can get something like this at the kind of price paid then it's a bit of a no brainer both from a capacity point of view (I now have 12m of drilling clout !) and for those agronomic situations where a tine solves the issues you can get with a disc

I'm pretty sure this will do a better job of OSR than the 750a and wheat after oats or continuous barley we grow on one block of land whilst not removing straw which I really don't want to be doing

if I had to spend 50k to achieve that I wouldn't but for 5k it gives me a lot of fresh options, row cleaners for the 750a could have achieved much the same but were more expensive and added nothing to capacity