- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Oh crikey dont start following anything I do, there generally isnt any methodical thinking over much we do!
Thanks for the explanation
OSR Drilling 2019
- Thread starter JCfarmer
- Start date
Oh crikey dont start following anything I do, there generally isnt any methodical thinking over much we do!
Thanks for the explanation
Very nice need a thread following all these projects you have had on recently!
CORK
Member
- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
Sowing DK Expansion today in East Cork.
NPK (247kg/Ha of 10.10.20) being placed. Deep tine creates a nice uncompacted channel through which the tap root can grow.
Ring roller follows once it has dried off.
NPK (247kg/Ha of 10.10.20) being placed. Deep tine creates a nice uncompacted channel through which the tap root can grow.
Ring roller follows once it has dried off.
- Location
- south norfolk
What make of drill is that
Nick...
CORK
Member
- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
It’s a SUMO DTS, front fert hopper is SUMO too.
ollie989898
Member
I can't be the only one to notice the huge glaring flaw with your new drill.
I would look way better with an 828 attached to it....
I can't be the only one to notice the huge glaring flaw with your new drill.
I would look way better with an 828 attached to it....
724 is the perfect match - 2-3L /ha fuel is also nice !
ollie989898
Member
Cripes dont go talking about Fendts and fuel consumption in the same sentence...
6m 750a and CO6 used circa 4L pretty much regardless of what colour tractor was on the front
Double the width but same HP can only be a efficiency improvement really
- Location
- south norfolk
Just to chuck a spanner in the works,how will these direct drills work in a very wet autumn.with a wet surface traction will be extremely poor and result in lots of wheel slip.plough and combination drill is pretty much weather proof.has anyone direct drilled in the very wet conditions that may or may not come.id imagine stripdrills may be worse having been looking at them in the last few days,online,requiring 200hp on even the 3m versions.
Nick...
Nick...
- Location
- Minehead,Somerset
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Finished drilling late last night. Sprinkled in front of roller in stubble cultivator. Went very well on mostly light land. Too lumpy on the heavy land and does not bode well for slugs, beetles and establishment but it's a smallish heavy area. 4.5 kg per ha 100 /m2. Old stocks turbo jet wizard proved highly accurate (as long as I keep the lid tight). A joy to set up and use after years battling with the metering on conventional seed drills
- Location
- south norfolk
- Location
- Lincolnshire
light land is always easy. Goes any time with any method. It's the heavy stuff that gives me a headache. Direct disc drill and you cut a hard slot which fills with water or turns into a slug motorway. Use a tine aggressively and you can bring up too many clods or need mega horsepower, or it won't cut in and just scrapes the surface.
I am coming to the conclusion that very low disturbance legs with a following disc drill coulter are the way forward in heavy land. That way you don't bring up cack, or create an open cloddy surface. You need a shattered but level surface in which to drill, with the trash cleared from in front of the seeding unit.
I have messed about with paraplows and disc drills but one day I will build the holy grail. A direct drill that copes with sand and clay, wet or dry, covered in heaps of badly chopped straw.
And will drill anything from clover to field beans and can be pulled by a MF135..... Well something like that.
- Location
- Cirencester
Well, despite saying "I wouldnt" I am, seed ordered and will make a start this afternoon, going to bang it on behind the subdisc, if it comes it comes if it doesnt then so be it. Agro says some of his customers crops are ok, some a bit of damage, so will take a chance.
- Location
- south norfolk
I’m hoping to get a look at the weaving gd and Mzuri drills working this autumn.agronomist told me the weaving would not work on a lot of our land.light land is always easy. Goes any time with any method. It's the heavy stuff that gives me a headache. Direct disc drill and you cut a hard slot which fills with water or turns into a slug motorway. Use a tine aggressively and you can bring up too many clods or need mega horsepower, or it won't cut in and just scrapes the surface.
I am coming to the conclusion that very low disturbance legs with a following disc drill coulter are the way forward in heavy land. That way you don't bring up cack, or create an open cloddy surface. You need a shattered but level surface in which to drill, with the trash cleared from in front of the seeding unit.
I have messed about with paraplows and disc drills but one day I will build the holy grail. A direct drill that copes with sand and clay, wet or dry, covered in heaps of badly chopped straw.
Nick...
Why is that nick , is he against it
Running a mzuri in South Norfolk and North Suffolk. Let me know if you want a look. Not growing rape though.
- Location
- south norfolk
No not at all.he said a lot of our land is too heavy and there could be a lot of hair pinning I think he said.im keen to go and have a look at one though
Nick...
- Location
- south norfolk