@Bobthebuilder has a sulky/sky. As do countless others . @Banana Bar give @Mark.MW a pm. He will do you a deal.
Power harrow combination.
- Thread starter Banana Bar
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- Location
- northumberland
Had an amazone before the sulky I would say the sulky just edges it for going into less than favourable conditions both 4m rigid, not sure what changes have been made now sky has taken over sulky, also run a 4m horsch pronto, if looking for a new 6m I wouldn't look far past the horsch kr, there were rumours of a 4m folding kr a while ago but not sure how that's coming along
- Location
- East yorks
Sulky and Sky are all the same company owned by the Burel family
Zebbedee
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- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
Yes expensive but to be fair they do last very well, and discs also last well and not horrendous priceZircon 12 harrow tines £27 each now too
Durt Burd
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- Location
- SE Ireland
Sulky/Sky is not making the power harrow it is a rebadged Frandent.
Frandent
HRW rotary harrows | SKY Agriculture
HRW rotary harrows are designed to work in combination. As a contractor and farmer specializing in field crops, you are as much an advocate of "wide width" as you are of reducing the number of passes: Then take a close look at the CULTILINE HRW range.
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Julien burel who owns sulky and sky bought the factory if frandaunt back in 2020. They had previously taken about 60-70% of their machines out of the factory prior to buying it .Sulky/Sky is not making the power harrow it is a rebadged Frandent.
Frandent
www.frandent.it
HRW rotary harrows | SKY Agriculture
HRW rotary harrows are designed to work in combination. As a contractor and farmer specializing in field crops, you are as much an advocate of "wide width" as you are of reducing the number of passes: Then take a close look at the CULTILINE HRW range.
ollie989898
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Used a Sky powerharrow over the summer. An absolute tank of a thing. Very nicely thought out I felt. Don't know how the cost compares to Kuhn etc or what parts prices are like mind.
- Location
- northumberland
They are like lemken where you have to use genuine metal as no spurious options, £22/tine last season for sulky ph
ollie989898
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Wouldn't surprise me at all as you don't see many about. I wasn't particularly convinced with their method of retaining the tines to the holders, either but pins etc have been used for years.
- Location
- northumberland
Never lost a tine yet in 3 seasons
They do.
Getting 650 acres from a set on a 3m
Previous amazone‘s were around 350 acres.
As for time loss is that a big thing on some makes?
Never lost one in 22 years of amazones & 7 with Lemken.
Zebbedee
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- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
Never lost a Lemken tine yet!!! Been through a few acres too , Amazon’s before never lost any tines either must be something wrong to lose tines I reckon
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I lose plenty on our Amazon! Let's the rocks pass through easier when one missing.
Land of milk and honey up with you boys!
Put mine on again this week to get ready for spring.
do you run subsoiler leg behind wheels
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No. Got 900s to go on it.
Will it lift it?
ollie989898
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Zebbedee
Member
- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
When you say lose a tine ? Do you break them or fall off? I must admit we are pretty lucky up in our area
@Banana Bar Did you get sorted with a Combination Drill?
Wheels88
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- Location
- Market Harborough
What sort of issues are the Alpego drills having? We're looking for a 6m combination/front tank set up at the minute to run alongside a Vaderstad and Claydon in place of a KV tine drill and I really like the look of an Alpego, mainly the simplicity of the single disc coulter design and how they are mounted (no complicated linkages or press wheels to cause issue on our heavy clay when it gets a bit sticky for the vad, we like to keep things simple!) I've spoke to several operators of the drills and power harrows, done a fair bit of research online and I think this comment is the first negative I've found so just interested to hear a bit more? Our agronomist put us in touch with a client of his who is running with 5000+ Ha on, we went to see him on Saturday and the drill/ power harrow was in very good order with apparently very few problems, and his crops looked bloody well!