ollie989898
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No plough or powerharrow thread could possibly be complete without some Silverfox soil or crop pornography.
Now you can explain how you drive one tractor whilst controlling the other using just the power of your mind?
Power Harrow Combis, Are they really any good?
- Thread starter DrWazzock
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No plough or powerharrow thread could possibly be complete without some Silverfox soil or crop pornography.
Now you can explain how you drive one tractor whilst controlling the other using just the power of your mind?
- Location
- leics/warks border
I have neighbor like that.I drilled wheat for a neighbour last backend. The field was like a swamp. I was carrying power harrow on lift most of time. Diff lock in to keep moving. I was positive it wouldn't grow. So wasn't that bothered what it looked like.
Heard last week it did 5t/acre!
Its away from road so never saw it again.
I also had headlands of winter barley I puddled in at home. Didn't grow.
I had one for a few years and thought it was brilliant, compared to doing the two jobs separately, it was. But faster methods are available.
They need to be able to go in more varied conditions because it takes so much longer to get your area of drilling done.
Probably the noblest of farm implements, excepting the Haybob maybe. The go to piece of equipment for proper farmers across the nation. It enables level headed folk to quietly go about sowing seeds in the correct manner based on centuries of sound scientific research.
- Location
- N.Lincs
Yeah, but the nub is, it does get it done.
We've drilled thousands of acres with a combi drill. Used to contract drill a thousand acres a year with a 4 metre, year in year out, wet years, dry years, however they came. On a full range of soil types, from blowing sand to strong 'owd kelt'
Every day was a drilling day - you had to be organised, prepared to change plans to suit the weather and pick land off, as and when it would go.
Minimally cultivated land, and strong land that needed more than just a power harrowing, first and when the weather broke, tight up behind the plough. We drilled right up to the furrow every night and if it rained in the night you could start again first thing in the morning.
You can even drill in the rain, if you've a big enough plough with a good bloke driving it, in front of you.
It took longer to fill the drill in them days too......
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
And todays special award goes to.....[emoji3]Probably the noblest of farm implements, excepting the Haybob maybe. The go to piece of equipment for proper farmers across the nation. It enables level headed folk to quietly go about sowing seeds in the correct manner based on centuries of sound scientific research.
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
I did the same last year.
Better going this year but not ploughing too much up in front.
Foxcover
Member
Lovely soil
One thing I always wonder (still ph-ing and drilling separately here) is how it works on the headlands. Presumably you lift the powerharrow just out of the ground so as not to mush around the seed in the ground, and go on a few feet til the drill gets to the line? But it must take a bit of getting right, no?
capfits
Member
Seen some classy spring barley crops that have been forced in with a power harrow combi drill combination.
Late year soil was cold and damp, dry on top but not at 4 inches smear city, poor root development and rubbish crops.
Great in right conditions (like anything) woeful results in wrong condition.
Very good for winter wheat but then so are a multitude of other drill systems.
Late year soil was cold and damp, dry on top but not at 4 inches smear city, poor root development and rubbish crops.
Great in right conditions (like anything) woeful results in wrong condition.
Very good for winter wheat but then so are a multitude of other drill systems.
Unless I'm reading this wrong ??
Fraserb
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Were still on a power Harrow combi here, well actually 2 of them, tried a vaderstad last year, went really well until it rained, after that it was the combi tight behind the plough and everything drilled at night. Apart from a few headlands were we really pushed things crops were decent.
Always do the headlands last
How do you measure it?
Just guess. You soon get to know . A bit is bound to get overlapped.
Usually drive up to the hedge, then 3 times round the headlands with a 3m drill usually does it . Sometimes 4 .
Fraserb
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Before GPS we just used the previous years tramline as a guide, lift plough out 1m before the tramline.
You just guess it
Or use the plough headland as a guide if I'm on sumo'd land I do 6 widths of that so 18m and as long as I'm into the 5th width with the drill I'll catch it in 4 widths of the 4m
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
you should have seen the bindweed we had to combine
ollie989898
Member
There must have been thousands of those accord drills sold nationwide, I know of at least 2 farms that had 6 metre versions. Used for years and years and years, 100 acres a day in good fields.
Phil any pics close up ,and pm rough cost to build it ,My combi has horsch coulters, does that count
Looking to go front tank ,
warksfarmer
Member
We moved from a MF30 to a combi drill and it saved a lot of time. To get a seedbed for the 30 required multiple passes with pigtails of if ploughed passes with rolls, harrows etc. It all took time and mixed weather conditions to help.
Having the combi drill meant plough it straight after harvest and then leave it to weather till October before combi drilling. The really heavy soil was rolled in front of the combi but other than that the weather did the work.
I don’t actually think combi drills are bad for the soil either like the no tillers.