No till and cover crops in Scotland

[Fat_badger]

Just for anyone reading I tried the mzuri here in aberdeenshire thought we had the stones well lifted before hand with a stone picker over the course of 3 years, my mistake if you have any stones it will diffinately ripe that crap up to the top took 2.5 days to clear a 50acre park

 

[Fat_badger]

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Machine looks the part any chance of some more details on how you did it

 

[SilliamWhale]

Just for anyone reading I tried the mzuri here in aberdeenshire thought we had the stones well lifted before hand with a stone picker over the course of 3 years, my mistake if you have any stones it will diffinately ripe that crap up to the top took 2.5 days to clear a 50acre park

Hardly picked a stone in 15 years with my 750

 

[TheEarlOfMoray]

Just for anyone reading I tried the mzuri here in aberdeenshire thought we had the stones well lifted before hand with a stone picker over the course of 3 years, my mistake if you have any stones it will diffinately ripe that crap up to the top took 2.5 days to clear a 50acre park

How’s the crop looking?

 

[Sharpy]

Hardly picked a stone in 15 years with my 750

You won't have any stones.

 

[Sandy]

@Dukes Fit

 

[Dukes Fit]

@Dukes Fit

Aye ..... Plenty effing stones this year.

Still waiting for the cover crop to make an appearance

 

[SilliamWhale]

You won't have any stones.

Not on the surface now

 

[rjmitch21]

Machine looks the part any chance of some more details on how you did it

We got a 4m accord drill and attached a 30m boom of a scrap sprayer and piped accordingly. seems to work well

 

[Fat_badger]

We got a 4m accord drill and attached a 30m boom of a scrap sprayer and piped accordingly. seems to work well

How do you drive the metering unit

 

[Fat_badger]

Hardly picked a stone in 15 years with my 750

Sounds about right, don't think muzri is for me, my place is fairly stoney been using a stone picker last 5 years probably lift around couple thousand tonne of stone

 

[jh.]

Sounds about right, don't think muzri is for me, my place is fairly stoney been using a stone picker last 5 years probably lift around couple thousand tonne of stone

I got the claydon back in this spring with a twin tine set up. They started off with the LD setup on wavy disc , hardly a stone but so far poor emergence. They then swapped out to a tine set up for 3 ish hec. I ended using a 15ton dump trailer to lift the stones and I had to empty it half way , to clear the tailgate for lifting the larger ones in the rear . The crop is about 10 times better than the LD at the moment .

Horsch demo didn't bring a stone up either.

 

[Fat_badger]

How’s the crop looking?

First pics the muzri, second pic is ploughed combi drilled 3 days after mzuri

 

[Dukes Fit]

I got the claydon back in this spring with a twin tine set up. They started off with the LD setup on wavy disc , hardly a stone but so far poor emergence. They then swapped out to a tine set up for 3 ish hec. I ended using a 15ton dump trailer to lift the stones and I had to empty it half way , to clear the tailgate for lifting the larger ones in the rear . The crop is about 10 times better than the LD at the moment .

Horsch demo didn't bring a stone up either.

Makes me feel a bit better knowing I’m not the only one who pulled up a sh!t ton of stones this year.

The striptilled stuff is very deceptive, you see all the neighbours ground turning green from the roadside and feel a bit disheartened until you walk through the field and realise that it’s all there, it’s just camouflaged.

The wide rows don’t help the illusion either.

 

[Old apprentice]

If I was to start DD again I would go down the Claydon system first , only because of the leading tine to drain away water from the seed . Being just over the Welsh border near Chester we get I would think nearly as much rain as you in the north, and if I drill before a wet spell with my SimTech drill the channels will flood with water. I would like SimTech to design something similar to the Claydon tine to run instead of the disk but I think patents might be involved.

Would subsoiling with grass land low disturbance tine be useful in that situition.

 

[Fat_badger]

Makes me feel a bit better knowing I’m not the only one who pulled up a sh!t ton of stones this year.

The striptilled stuff is very deceptive, you see all the neighbours ground turning green from the roadside and feel a bit disheartened until you walk through the field and realise that it’s all there, it’s just camouflaged.

The wide rows don’t help the illusion either.

Having a,good look yesterday, think the mzuri planted it too deep taking to long for anything to breach the surface think that's why it's so far behing

 

[Dukes Fit]

Having a,good look yesterday, think the mzuri planted it too deep taking to long for anything to breach the surface think that's why it's so far behing

When was it planted?

 

[Sprayer 1]

Would subsoiling with grass land low disturbance tine be useful in that situition.

I have got a shakerator to run through before I plant wheat this Autumn. I know it is classed as a step backwards in the world of DD ,but when you are paying rent every acre has to earn.

 

[Fat_badger]

When was it planted?

15 April for the mzuri and the traditionally planred was 18 april