New Weaving DD drill

[charlesbrown]

Thanks for your perspective. Can you elaborate a bit more on your point about the flap of soil being a breakthrough? Are you saying that it performs much better in marginal conditions (and I know from you soil type that this is likely to be wet and sticky), and, if so, in what way?

Well its sort of obvious really, I'm sure you must have seen the drill working. Instead of a vertical "v" that then needs soil pushing sideways to fill it, because the seed is injected under the "flap" it just then needs a wheel to close the flap!

Some seed then grows verticaly through the soil, some seems to grow up the side of the flap, not sure under what conditions the former happens but I would think that would be preferable. It probably depends on moisture, ie if the side is smeared slightly?

As regards wet conditions, I suppose it hasn't been really tested yet. Although the last bit of drilling after rape was done 17th Oct ( to maximise BG flushes, and we then risked a further Rup just before emergence,bit nail biting doing that!) when it was wettish and that has come well due to the mild dryish weather subsequently.

But we have the little T sem in reserve, that will go in the wet, if we have to!

cb

 

[York]

Apologies for getting it wrong Tom, I would like to hear from more Cross Slot users beside yourself on here though.

I can see the positives of twitter, but personally I find a forum is a better way of discussing ideas in depth.

RiRichard III,
there is a big differance beween Twitter & TFF.
At Twitter, you have the choice to follow people or not.
On TFF it seems to m3e that some people just are triggered to have to respond when:
- certain posters are writing
- certain "words" are included in the post.
maybe there is a variation of combination & orders of the above.
I for myself have decided:
to ignore certain posters altogether
becomme more quiet
Hasn't had a negative influence on my life.
Twitter usage:
I have rely no time to follow that too much as I'm still a "Technology non user", so no smart phone with 24h Internet.

Have a blessed Christmas & peaceful time with some relaxing to review past 12 month to adjust for the next 12 month.

York-Th.

 

[Richard III]

Hi York,

Personally I've never really felt the need to ignore any poster on Tff, I enjoy everyones contribution, particularly in the No Till section. I sometimes observe the odd argument on here where I have previously met both posters in person, I often think if they were talking face to face there would understand each other much better and would probably get along. It is simply the limitation of the media I guess.

I do have a smart phone, except as soon as I step out of the house unfortunately it becomes dumb, the phone network here is poor. I still use Twitter though, I just flick through in an evening. Twitter is great for finding interesting people you would otherwise not have come into contact with. One such person I found on Twitter is Edward Dickin, he works at a College only 20 miles from me, but I had never heard of him.

https://twitter.com/naked_barley

Edward breeds varieties of Naked Barley and grows old wheat varieties of wheat, his pictures of a modern wheat root system against an old variety is amazing and revealing.

Merry Christmas,

Richard.

 

[warksfarmer]

RiRichard III,
there is a big differance beween Twitter & TFF.
At Twitter, you have the choice to follow people or not.
On TFF it seems to m3e that some people just are triggered to have to respond when:
- certain posters are writing
- certain "words" are included in the post.
maybe there is a variation of combination & orders of the above.
I for myself have decided:
to ignore certain posters altogether
becomme more quiet
Hasn't had a negative influence on my life.
Twitter usage:
I have rely no time to follow that too much as I'm still a "Technology non user", so no smart phone with 24h Internet.

Have a blessed Christmas & peaceful time with some relaxing to review past 12 month to adjust for the next 12 month.

York-Th.

Simple fact is Twitter is a massive worldwide social network. TFF isn't by a long way and because its niche will never get to 10% of Twitter.

You can get the word out on Twitter much easier and it's a snowball effect. No idea how but I've got nearly 600 followers.

If I post and 5% of my followers retweet and they've got 600 followers each and then 1% of their followers retweet and so on suddenly the snowball effect has started.

 

[Clive]

Simple fact is Twitter is a massive worldwide social network. TFF isn't by a long way and because its niche will never get to 10% of Twitter.

You can get the word out on Twitter much easier and it's a snowball effect. No idea how but I've got nearly 600 followers.

If I post and 5% of my followers retweet and they've got 600 followers each and then 1% of their followers retweet and so on suddenly the snowball effect has started.

After a very slow start with it I have warmed to twitter this last 12 months and have a lot of followers etc but still find it's 140 characters very restrictive in discussing anything, its just headlines really, no depth to anything

it has a much wider audience and appeal of course but I'm not really fussed about sharing information with none farmers

 

[dontknowanything]

After a very slow start with it I have warmed to twitter this last 12 months and have a lot of followers etc but still find it's 140 characters very restrictive in discussing anything, its just headlines really, no depth to anything

it has a much wider audience and appeal of course but I'm not really fussed about sharing information with none farmers

Finally, someone impartial chips in

 

[Clive]

Finally, someone impartial chips in

maybe Mark Zuckerberg will post to add his point of view later ?

 

[Andy Howard]

maybe Mark Zuckerberg will post to add his point of view later ?

You're comparing yourself with Mark Zuckerberg? he has promised to give his wealth away back to society, are you going to do the same?

 

[Clive]

You're comparing yourself with Mark Zuckerberg? he has promised to give his wealth away back to society, are you going to do the same?

If ever end up even 50% as well off then yes I would do, in fact I can't see why anyone wouldn't ? There is only so much money anyone can spend or ever need

I doubt it's a problem I'm ever likely to have to deal with !

 

[dontknowanything]

If ever end up even 50% as well off then yes I would do, in fact I can't see why anyone wouldn't ? There is only so much money anyone can spend or ever need

I doubt it's a problem I'm ever likely to have to deal with !

"even" 50%?

Only the $22.5B to go then???

 

[Andy Howard]

If ever end up even 50% as well off then yes I would do, in fact I can't see why anyone wouldn't ? There is only so much money anyone can spend or ever need

I doubt it's a problem I'm ever likely to have to deal with !

If you run out of money you could ask @dontknowanything for a loan.

 

[dontknowanything]

If you run out of money you could ask @dontknowanything for a loan.

none to spare here, I'm only 25% as rich as Zuckerberg

 

[Clive]

"even" 50%?

Only the $22.5B to go then???

The lad has done well to be fair !

 

[Richard III]

A nice video of a trailed 4.8m.

 

[SilliamWhale]

A nice video of a trailed 4.8m.

Whats that got to do with the thread?!

 

[Feldspar]

Is there anyone on here who has got a trailed GD?

 

[Andrew K]

Looks good in the video, what sort of dirt was it?

 

[martian]

Thanks for posting that Richard, good to get back on topic...it looks impressively low disturbance, but really 90% of video is drone pictures of the unit sailing up and down a nice flat field. They cut the one headland turn in half so we've no real idea of how it corners and there's precious little footage of the actual seeding operation. And that dreadful urgent bombastic music that machinery people always soundtrack these videos with. Apart from that...

 

[Feldspar]

This video made me think again of the depth gauge wheel being the press wheel which is quite a way behind the seeding point. To the users of these drills, does this create any problem with accurate seeding depth?

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Would suggest this is Tony Reynolds machine Andrew if that helps but could be wrong and usually am!