New Weaving DD drill

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
A 6m JD 750A with iso and guttlers was quoted to a contracting friend last week for spring delivery at £85,000. The price of the weaving also 6m but with a bigger hopper and also a micro fertiliser applicator was just over £60,000 according to the same guy.

sounds like 6m 750a's have gone up best part of 20k very recently then

85k would be list price maybe but no one pays list .............do they ??
 

York

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Location
D-Berlin
sounds like 6m 750a's have gone up best part of 20k very recently then

85k would be list price maybe but no one pays list .............do they ??
why not?
with some extras, not on the invoice. there are quite a lot of usefull things which come in the green-yellow livery. Very popular: tractor mowers, educational trip to the US, or what so ever.
York-Th.
 

willy

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Rutland
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Here is an update of my drilling on the green with the gd into oil radish and vetch,

The village have moaned about the smell of rotting cabbage for the last 4 weeks:)
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I will be drilling on the green more
One half tramline that was not sprayed off is by far the best establishment In a block after osr
Lesson learned

Trouble is the block has too much bg so may not cost more

Looking back over the last 25 years when there is a lot of green material in the seed bed it has never been a factor in poor establishment what ever the establishment method

The only potential problem is aphid carry over and bydv carry over which in a notill system with no insecticide use in the rotation enhances beneficial predators
 
We always see lots of fields in the autumn shortly after they were drilled, but not very often are they followed so we see the results before harvest and hear about the yields?
Drilling after OSR and beans is easy for all drills, but what about drilling after grain and chopped straw with the GD drill?
OSR after barley/chopped straw is really a challenge. Is the GD drill better than others? Does the angled discs cause less hairpinning than vertical discs?
Is high stubble (or even better a stripper header) the only solution for disc drills?
 

Andrew K

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Arable Farmer
Location
Essex
This is a pic of where we used a GD demo drill after cover crop of oats and vetch last spring. Trash , hairpinning and depth control was not a problem.
 

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Cutlerstom

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Arable Farmer
We always see lots of fields in the autumn shortly after they were drilled, but not very often are they followed so we see the results before harvest and hear about the yields?
Drilling after OSR and beans is easy for all drills, but what about drilling after grain and chopped straw with the GD drill?
OSR after barley/chopped straw is really a challenge. Is the GD drill better than others? Does the angled discs cause less hairpinning than vertical discs?
Is high stubble (or even better a stripper header) the only solution for disc drills?
Im very pleased with how my gd coped in this 2nd wheat situation. After an 11t/ha crop of KWS Lili with lots of chopped straw. Crap photo from the fertiliser spreader, I will take more, but emergence is very even. I wouldn't say it hairpins less than the 750a we demoed last year, but I think in my soil type it closes the slot better, so gives the wheat a better chance of survival. This was drilled mid October and has established around 220 plants/ m which is less than the target of 260 I wanted, but it's even, so will tiller to compensate. I'm happier with this than I am with a lot of the 1st wheat after osr which had tremendous slug pressure!
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Cutlerstom

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Arable Farmer
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Im very pleased with how my gd coped in this 2nd wheat situation. After an 11t/ha crop of KWS Lili with lots of chopped straw. Crap photo from the fertiliser spreader, I will take more, but emergence is very even. I wouldn't say it hairpins less than the 750a we demoed last year, but I think in my soil type it closes the slot better, so gives the wheat a better chance of survival. This was drilled mid October and has established around 220 plants/ m which is less than the target of 260 I wanted, but it's even, so will tiller to compensate. I'm happier with this than I am with a lot of the 1st wheat after osr which had tremendous slug pressure!View attachment 488968
This was it at the time of drilling. We demo a claydon rake and did this field twice just before drilling, 10 October, so not the best raking time I'm led to believe. With hindsight I should've left a bit unraked to compare. Next year I will cut the stubble higher and chop as fine as possible - better to spend a bit on diesel on the combine than the extra passes with a rake in my opinion!
 

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