NEW Direct drill on the scene

[Ryetecman]

New MAAG SSP drill from Ryetec, will be on show at YAMS next week, designed for Direct, Min till and conventional drilling with a disc coulter and up to 250kgs pressure.

If you would like to know more please follow the link

 

[Howdenshire Farmer]

Saw it going near Malton a few days ago. Appaling conditions. Shouldn't really have been in the field if the farmer wasn't so keen to get something drilled (s barley).
Amazed at how well it coped without blocking up. I don't think many other disc drills would have kept going.
Would be interested to see it alongside other drills in better conditions.
You should take it to the Groundswell event.

 

[Ryetecman]

Thanks to your visit Howdenshire Farmer, and following our conversation we're booked in at Groundswell.

 

[Flintstone]

Whilst I don't doubt it will do a stunning job, I never cease to be amazed by how some consider a drill as good just because it'll chuck seed into a snotty field.

Ill be interested to see some pics on 1st June of what it looks like.

 

[Howdenshire Farmer]

I'm happy to have amazed you.
I predict that on 1st of June some parts of the field will look good and some will be bare because the seed will rot.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Be interesting to see how good downpressure is

 

[Dman2]

What sort of hp for 3m version?

 

[Clive]

any close ups of the coulter design please ?

 

[Howdenshire Farmer]

any close ups of the coulter design please ?

Don't have a PIC. Has a large serrated disc which runs straight with a smaller smooth disc close to it but slightly angled to create the slot. Depth controlled by the two notched press wheels which run on a tandem bogie. Their angle to straight is adjustable to move more or less soil to fill the slot.

 

[Howdenshire Farmer]

Smooth disc is other side of notched one. Forgot to take pic of it.

 

[SorenIlsoe]

I have some photos from Agritechnica here. Didn't see anything fascinating. The important thing is: how reliable is it in long term operation (and stony soils), and how will yields be compared to well known drills?

 

[dontknowanything]

Looks like a fairly vanilla double disc opener with two cultivating discs behind to cover the slot?

 

[beardface]

2 things I like, mechanical simplicity and notched packing wheels. With the packing wheels do the notches help to fracture the slot side wall and allow lateral root growth and reduce water pooling in slot and slot shrinkage in wet/dry conditions?

 

[Ryetecman]

Sorry not to update this sooner, this spring was a good test to see just how the drill would go in poor conditions, the demo that
Howdenshire Farmer came to was perhaps the most extreme. The field is on the route of the river Rye which was diverted back in the 1950's, no problem with the drains, it spent 7 weeks underwater in Jan/Feb and thanks to the 100mm of rain in April, the water table was just below the majority of the surface level, any dips were water logged but we decided that the rest would just go, it was the 27th of Apr. Spring wheat at 250kg/ha, decided if drill would run through water without making a mess would be better than jacking out and going around and it did, all discs and press wheels turning, we did unsurprisingly block 4 spouts. If you look at the picture, water standing all around the pylon and only just disappeared closer to camera. With time marching on and rain forecast for the next 10 days the decision to go was made as to delay looked like nothing would go in, rightly or wrongly?

Pictures below taken 20.6.16

Notice shadow of pylon looking down on to wettest area of field, Farmer and I are surprised as we thought this area was a total write off (I have a vidoe of it working here as well which I will try and post)

The majority of the field looks like below, proof of the pudding will come later, but the crop looks well and the forecast turned out to be right, with conventional methods we would have had to wait another 3 weeks.

Farmer is very happy and so am I, I think Howdenshire farmer will be quite surprised?

I await your comments.

 

[willy]

I saw this today, and have to say i thought it looked pretty good and was doing a good job of covering the seed. Unlike th antipodean machine

 

[Howdenshire Farmer]

He is

 

[Ryetecman]

Video showing just what conditions were like and the results with a video through the crop

+ a bit of recent demo work

 

[Ryetecman]

Video showing just what conditions were like and the results with a video through the crop

+ a bit of recent demo work

 

[Oscar]

Have to say ,you would nt expect it to look that good given the drilling conditions !!

 

[fergie35]

Any more on this? What were yields like, anyone else tried one?