OSR Drill Project

[Bob lincs]

Having sold my 750A as I was only using it for osr I decided to build a simpler mounted toolbar with disc coulters for drilling it this year . I wanted to use one of our front hoppers and that is set up for seed and Fert . As you will see by the pics I started with a 6m LELY power Harrow frame as a base and then built the coulters on to sub frames behind it , Its not been painted as I’m sure I will need to make a few mods . 7m wide, Hyd pressure on each coulter .

 

[tinman]

that looks to be a fine job, you spent a few quid..
can the likes of that be bought or is it a niche machine.
ill declare i know nothing about OSR at this point, or much about tillage either...

 

[Bob lincs]

If it doesn’t work it can defiantly be brought .... . You can buy a disc coulter toolbar from Weaving’s I think .

 

[tinman]

dose all osr get sowed in strips like that or can it be broadcasted.
how long dose it take a crop to grow, dose it like good ground or is fairly easy to grow.
how is it harvested, and once thats done where to then, storage, mill..
i have no interest in growing it, just curious about it if you dont mind me asking.

 

[Bob lincs]

Osr can be grown in wide or narrow rows or broadcast it’s really down to the individual , it is quite hard to grow now due to slugs and pests . We combine our direct with a conventional combine it then goes straight off farm to central storage where it stays until sold to the end user .

 

[cosmagedon]

Looks good [emoji41] what are the discs and coulters off? Is it just one set depth at the moment and drill more holes as you need them?

 

[Bob lincs]

The discs are from grange machinery and the boots are from sumo . The depth can be adjusted by moving the gauge wheel in relation to to disc in 6mm steps .

 

[Bob lincs]

 

[Will 1594]

Did you sell crumblers

 

[Bob lincs]

Did you sell crumblers

THey went with the other power Harrow

 

[Wombat]

You have some properly good builds

 

[nick...]

Looks a great job.hope it all works ok for you
Nick...

 

[Bob lincs]

You have some properly good builds

Thank you

 

[Robert]

What drill do you use for your cereals as a
matter of interest?

 

[Bob lincs]

What drill do you use for your cereals as a
matter of interest?

We run two combi drills for our cereals .

 

[Bob lincs]

Osr drilled Saturday afternoon easily visible this morning .

 

[Heathland]

@Bob lincs
Just wondering what your osr looks like now and how you got on with your drill,really need to have a rethink yet again about establishing my osr.

 

[Bob lincs]

These pics are the same field that my previous pics are from . I drilled just under 600 ac without any real problems with the drill . Everything I drilled looks really good apart from the last 50ac that went in 1st wk of September and has suffered from drought more than anything , we didnt have any rain on that last bit until last wk and what did grow just couldn’t get going fast enough to get away from the CSFB . We redrilled that 50ac on Thursday last wk as we were given some free hybrid seed to drill as a late OSR drilling trial , if it doesn’t come to anything apart from a mornings work I’m no worse off . Had a look today and it’s all chitted as now has plenty of moisture. I will keep getting some pics and post them on here .

 

[Bob lincs]

Redrilling last Thursday was bloody wet but went quite well with only a couple of bung ups . This could be the Triton of the OSR world

 

[Chae1]

Poor teddy getting a pole up his ass.