- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Mzuri
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wellingtonfarmer
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
A couple of Mzuri crops on some sticky Suffolk clay. Am very pleased as far as a first year goes, but it has been a kind season. Beans need spraying for Ascocyta.
Lilli wheat after oats and beans. Had no fert so far.
Those crops look very well. Is it after spring or winter oats? Our wheat after w oats looks crap!
Why go trailed?
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
To give us more options/flexibility really,
- It should make the drill even easier to setup
- Improved contour following
- We can reduce front weights and tyre pressures
- We can use a smaller tractor that didn't have to lift power, but has enough draft power
- It will improve the hook-up-and-go ability of the drill, so we could pop the drill on and do an afternoon's drilling , the mounted drill doesn't lend itself to that.
- Front press wheels and extra depth wheels allow better seed depth control in cultivated ground, which some of our customers still like to do.
- We could fit the front discs to improve performance in heavy trash situation.
- It basically allows us to customise the drill to whatever situation we like, we can set it up to work on ploughing all the way to low disturbance DD with discs and low disturbance coulters
- It also makes the drill look the part!
- Safer to change tines as the rwms can be locked up
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Good points, how much for the mod? If you don't mind me asking
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
I think list price is around £15k!
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Thats what we thought, as i said, that's list price 
We figured that with the benefits it brings and when we come to sell the drill it will enhance it's value.
...but we've no plan to sell the drill as all wearing parts can be changed, and the frame won't break up on it!
We figured that with the benefits it brings and when we come to sell the drill it will enhance it's value.
...but we've no plan to sell the drill as all wearing parts can be changed, and the frame won't break up on it!
Flintstone
Member
- Location
- Berkshire
I toyed with buying a Mzuri, but was put off by a neighbour's experience of one in spring barley (I grow a fair bit of it), and the sheer HP requirement per metre.
I ordered a DTS, and then sadly backed out after having three farmers who had them call me up telling me I was mad, and that I'd either go grey or have a coronary with the amount I was getting out to unblock it.
I went for the Claydon, and I cannot fault it. As @Rob Holmes says, yes the seed depth is anything between 10 and 40mm, but it makes bu66er all difference after a week or two, and I know I can pull into a field and drill 80 acres in a day, with 200 hp, and without worrying about it blocking up.
I've just got in from a 65 acre day that I hadn't even planned until I realised that the conditions were ideal at 11am.
Great drills, great company, and unbelievably cheap establishment costs.
@mike@claydon will answer any questions you have. He's a top chap and won't give you a hard sell. He relies on his customers to sell them for him!
I ordered a DTS, and then sadly backed out after having three farmers who had them call me up telling me I was mad, and that I'd either go grey or have a coronary with the amount I was getting out to unblock it.
I went for the Claydon, and I cannot fault it. As @Rob Holmes says, yes the seed depth is anything between 10 and 40mm, but it makes bu66er all difference after a week or two, and I know I can pull into a field and drill 80 acres in a day, with 200 hp, and without worrying about it blocking up.
I've just got in from a 65 acre day that I hadn't even planned until I realised that the conditions were ideal at 11am.
Great drills, great company, and unbelievably cheap establishment costs.
@mike@claydon will answer any questions you have. He's a top chap and won't give you a hard sell. He relies on his customers to sell them for him!
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Is anyone else sick of the milky milky cows sorry I mean knowledgeable farmers coming out with claydons/stripdrills don't work, or u must plough every 4 years get the power harrow /press out loads of pointless recreational cultivations beacuse that's the way we always do it.... Starting to wind me up now
wellingtonfarmer
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
What went wrong with the mzuri? I think a lot of it is a regional thing as well, no one will touch Claydon round here as a farmer lost all his winter crops using one. I guess if had used a mzuri/dts they would of failed as well!
Why let it bother you? If others don't want to change then you still have your competitive advantage on cost & soil health.
Winter oats, Mascani. All straw removed. Last year our wheat after oats was on some of our heaviest land and as it was so wet, it didn't look or do particularly well. Next year, wheat after oats and grass will get some DAP down the front leg to try and encourage as strong as possible rooting going into winter. Didn't do it this year as was new to the drill and had enough to worry about!
- Location
- Essex/Herts Border
Its ok I think he's misspelt TSP, DAP, easy mistake to make
Its ok I think he's misspelt TSP, DAP, easy mistake to make
Absolutely, I get easily confused. Perhaps some 0 24 24.
Spencer
Member
- Location
- North West
So, my "New" to me Mzuri finally turned up today. Been playing about with it in workshop getting it plumbed up to tractor. Can some one tell me where you need to set air diffuser for cereals? Book says half open but doesn't say what half open means? Is it with washers underneath?
wellingtonfarmer
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Had the mzuri out on demo last week. Was pretty impressed with it, conditions had gone a little bit dry so the finish could of been better with a bit of moisture!
Will see what it comes up like.
Will see what it comes up like.
true blue 1872
Member
I’m very interested in strip tillage but am a bit clueless! Located up in the North East of Scotland so there aren’t many Mzuri/Claydon’s etc going about.
Mainly grade 2 with a bit of grade 3 land. We have quite a lot of heavy clay soils & some nice loamy soils too. Grow potatoes too, so would need to plough occasionally.
Current rotation is as follows,
Potatoes, Winter Wheat/Spring Barley, Spring Barley, Spring Beans/Peas, Winter Wheat.
Been selling all the straw & spreading green waste compost @ 10T/HA, spread 2000 tonnes last year. Compaction is an issue in a wet year with all the traffic.
How much horsepower would you recommend for a 4m Mzuri on heavy ground? Do you sow at the same seed rates, or increase/decrease with slug pressure/it being in bands? Do you use a rezult/straw Harrow?
Do you chop all your straw?
I feel like the Mzuri would be the more forgiving drill on heavy ground/compacted ground. Main concerns are HP requirements, slug pressure, & it’s wet!
I’m interested in cover crops but have less of a window to get them in. Wanting to improve the soil & save time & diesel.
Would appreciate any feed back/info in how you get on and any advice.
Thanks in advance!
Mainly grade 2 with a bit of grade 3 land. We have quite a lot of heavy clay soils & some nice loamy soils too. Grow potatoes too, so would need to plough occasionally.
Current rotation is as follows,
Potatoes, Winter Wheat/Spring Barley, Spring Barley, Spring Beans/Peas, Winter Wheat.
Been selling all the straw & spreading green waste compost @ 10T/HA, spread 2000 tonnes last year. Compaction is an issue in a wet year with all the traffic.
How much horsepower would you recommend for a 4m Mzuri on heavy ground? Do you sow at the same seed rates, or increase/decrease with slug pressure/it being in bands? Do you use a rezult/straw Harrow?
Do you chop all your straw?
I feel like the Mzuri would be the more forgiving drill on heavy ground/compacted ground. Main concerns are HP requirements, slug pressure, & it’s wet!
I’m interested in cover crops but have less of a window to get them in. Wanting to improve the soil & save time & diesel.
Would appreciate any feed back/info in how you get on and any advice.
Thanks in advance!
Dukes Fit
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
@true blue 1872 where about are you, is it Keenan's compost you're spreading?