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Power Harrow Combis, Are they really any good?
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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 7188345" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>Every farm is different and just because somebody does something in a different way to you, doesn't mean either you or they are wrong.</p><p></p><p>But I have learned something else re plough-combi based compared to No-til (though I'll stress here that I use a Weaving GD with 23 degree angled Disc drill for absolute minimal soil disturbance so as not to disturb Blackgrass, rather than a tine drill which many advised me to start off with!)</p><p>Last autumn this whole farm was plough-combi'd. It was a very wet autumn and winter and we had plenty of tramline wheelings far deeper than I would have liked. Despite this, I decided not to try to repair the damage ahead of using the GD this year and where I could, I drilled it all at an angle to last year's tramlines, without adding new ones, so as to use what are now the quite firm old ones.</p><p></p><p>Amazingly, apart from a very few deeper ones, the dry summer seemed to nearly level it all: Either the rest of the field also sunk as it dried out, or the Tramlines raised themselves back up to a level that isn't now too deep. Or both.</p><p></p><p>What has utterly surprised me is that the GD has successfully drilled through the old tramlines, rather than leave the seed on top to die. I hope I shall still see them in the spring!</p><p></p><p>After over 5" of rain in the past 3 weeks, you can walk across almost all of my GD'd land with your best shoes on and tractor wheels will not pick up dirt/mud using those old tramlines.</p><p>Much of the ploughed+combi'd land, this wouldn't necessarily be the case!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Why?</p><p>IMO, it is not having disturbed last year's stubbles and their roots that is acting as our drainage and maybe, even at this early stage for me, the worms weren't disturbed either, that is helping with the drainage too.</p><p>Pick any stone up, and you will find at least one worm under it and there are certainly obvious worm-casts on the surface.</p><p></p><p>But, I'll stress again that is here on this farm. Your's could well be different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 7188345, member: 44728"] Every farm is different and just because somebody does something in a different way to you, doesn't mean either you or they are wrong. But I have learned something else re plough-combi based compared to No-til (though I'll stress here that I use a Weaving GD with 23 degree angled Disc drill for absolute minimal soil disturbance so as not to disturb Blackgrass, rather than a tine drill which many advised me to start off with!) Last autumn this whole farm was plough-combi'd. It was a very wet autumn and winter and we had plenty of tramline wheelings far deeper than I would have liked. Despite this, I decided not to try to repair the damage ahead of using the GD this year and where I could, I drilled it all at an angle to last year's tramlines, without adding new ones, so as to use what are now the quite firm old ones. Amazingly, apart from a very few deeper ones, the dry summer seemed to nearly level it all: Either the rest of the field also sunk as it dried out, or the Tramlines raised themselves back up to a level that isn't now too deep. Or both. What has utterly surprised me is that the GD has successfully drilled through the old tramlines, rather than leave the seed on top to die. I hope I shall still see them in the spring! After over 5" of rain in the past 3 weeks, you can walk across almost all of my GD'd land with your best shoes on and tractor wheels will not pick up dirt/mud using those old tramlines. Much of the ploughed+combi'd land, this wouldn't necessarily be the case! Why? IMO, it is not having disturbed last year's stubbles and their roots that is acting as our drainage and maybe, even at this early stage for me, the worms weren't disturbed either, that is helping with the drainage too. Pick any stone up, and you will find at least one worm under it and there are certainly obvious worm-casts on the surface. But, I'll stress again that is here on this farm. Your's could well be different. [/QUOTE]
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