New design for the sprinter

[Green oak]

Quite like this.

 

[alomy75]

Quite like this.

Can’t quite see as the pics seem blurry on my phone but isn’t it a Taro?

 

[BRB John]

Looks very light... Probably still needs a 300hp tractor

 

[Green oak]

 

[Jim Jackson]

trailed version too.

 

[cb387]

Seed tubes look very similar to Metcalfe ones

 

[E_B]

Looks like a Condor now, should stop the migration.

 

[Fish]

Horsch are just catching up with all the other manufacturers of drills around the world, Bourgault, Morris, Case, Seedhawk etc etc, in making a tine with hydraulic pressure control.
What will be a game changer, is if Horsch make it in the 4/6m size.

 

[Steevo]

Looks a bit like a Seedhawk crossed with a Sabretine.

 

[chalk farming]

4.5m,5m,6m and 7m

 

[alomy75]

4.5m,5m,6m and 7m

Yeah but look how little room there is in there…it would be like a straw rake

 

[chalk farming]

You can specify 19 or 25cm row spacing over 4 rows. So you have a choice depending on circumstances

 

[ajd132]

Horsch are just catching up with all the other manufacturers of drills around the world, Bourgault, Morris, Case, Seedhawk etc etc, in making a tine with hydraulic pressure control.
What will be a game changer, is if Horsch make it in the 4/6m size.

I can’t see the point of the extra expense of a ram on every coulter. I was really sceptical that the condor wouldn’t have enough downforce but we demoed it on some extreme tight and hard clay soil in late June that had been left fallow for drainage and it went in remarkably well.
will be interesting to see the price differences between the condor and the new Horsch.

 

[Vitu]

Yeah but look how little room there is in there…it would be like a straw rake

Picture doesn’t do it justice. You won’t get any more trash clearance than on that drill.

 

[farmerfred86]

I can’t see the point of the extra expense of a ram on every coulter. I was really sceptical that the condor wouldn’t have enough downforce but we demoed it on some extreme tight and hard clay soil in late June that had been left fallow for drainage and it went in remarkably well.
will be interesting to see the price differences between the condor and the new Horsch.

Has to be similar money to the avatar of the same size surely? Tank and chassis must be almost identical. Funny you were saying in the autumn about a smaller machine - I imagine they will be popular.

 

[alomy75]

Picture doesn’t do it justice. You won’t get any more trash clearance than on that drill.

I can crawl under my sprinter without touching any coulters on my back or sides. I very much doubt that’s possible with that thing. Having said that; I suspect the depth control/consistency is better on the virkar. Other tine drills with a gauge wheel (seed hawk, dale etc tend to have huge frames to create space to offset the room taken up by the wheel. It’s all just so crammed in on that picture. It would be interesting to see them together to be fair…

 

[Green oak]

Has to be similar money to the avatar of the same size surely? Tank and chassis must be almost identical. Funny you were saying in the autumn about a smaller machine - I imagine they will be popular.

I’d imagine it would be more money. Part sales on the avertar or any disc drill is a good earner. Putting a set of points on not so much.

 

[Vitu]

I can crawl under my sprinter without touching any coulters on my back or sides. I very much doubt that’s possible with that thing. Having said that; I suspect the depth control/consistency is better on the virkar. Other tine drills with a gauge wheel (seed hawk, dale etc tend to have huge frames to create space to offset the room taken up by the wheel. It’s all just so crammed in on that picture. It would be interesting to see them together to be fair…

You can walk under the virkar with out the tines touching your back or sides. Why crawl? Or does getting down and intimate with the soil make the seed grow better?
Each tine has 75 cm clearance around it on 19 cm row spacing. And 1m on 25cm row spacing.
Don’t see many straw rakes with tines that far apart.

 

[alomy75]

You can walk under the virkar with out the tines touching your back or sides. Why crawl? Or does getting down and intimate with the soil make the seed grow better?
Each tine has 75 cm clearance around it on 19 cm row spacing. And 1m on 25cm row spacing.
Don’t see many straw rakes with tines that far apart.

Think we have a new contender to replace the Triton thread…

 

[Vitu]

Think we have a new contender to replace the Triton thread…