Plough, Drill & Press - One pass old school

[ProHorizon]

It has been a couple of years since I was out with Jon and his minimat. I was filming for my customer Beetroot UK and Jon was drilling winter wheat, so I took the opportunity to do a new video.

 

[Clive]

how do you do headlands?

 

[spin cycle]

how do you do headlands?

IIRC they used to say that you plough the headland then attach the minimat to 3pl and use as drill....in reality ppl used to work/ drill conventionally just using minimat for centre of field

 

[yellowbelly]

I've never used a Minimat but I've pressed plenty of ploughing. If it was me, I'd be inclined to pull the press through a bit further at the ends - you wouldn't have such a big headland to sort out.

Maybe he leaves a big headland so it fits his headland tramline

 

[4course]

do I detect an interest in the plough from an ardent scratcher, ho ho

 

[Suffolk Serf]

how do you do headlands?

You can drag the minimat up and down the headland with a piece of chain in reverse, so without unhitching the plough. Or use another tractor and drill, which defeats the point.
@Breckland Boy uses one sometimes.
A few years ago a local estate had a 4 metre Minimat, used with a Ford FW60 and 10 furrow Dowdeswell.

 

[Breckland Boy]

Just done my ex onion land with my minimat. Its a great tool.
Headlands can be done with some planning. Furrow left on the edge of the field, manoeuvring it 90 degrees takes some precision, much easier with hydraulic press release, variwidth and autosteer.
It's the in field obstacles that make me curse more than headlands

 

[Breckland Boy]

 

[Bury the Trash]

its Kockerling , not knockerling.
and why ishe ploughing that ?the mind boggles.

 

[Bury the Trash]

It has been a couple of years since I was out with Jon and his minimat. I was filming for my customer Beetroot UK and Jon was drilling winter wheat, so I took the opportunity to do a new video.

Its Kockerling , not knockerling.
and why is he ploughing that ground ?the mind boggles.

 

[teslacoils]

I aspire to retire to 120ac of irrigated light land in southern France that I can drill with a minimat on Christmas day to get away from the in-laws.

 

[ProHorizon]

how do you do headlands?

You can do the headlands with the minimat but apparently, it does take some setting up. Jon uses a different drill on their land to do it.

 

[ProHorizon]

Its Kockerling , not knockerling.
and why is he ploughing that ground ?the mind boggles.

That's the Yorkshire way of saying Köckerling. I was never great at pronunciation or spooling either Thanks for watching though

They told me that they had shallow compaction from the potato harvest so he used this setup to remove it.