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Replacing our Dowdeswell DP7
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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 3161720" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>Farming is often a compromise. As is life!</p><p></p><p>We are lucky enough with the joint venture of machinery and labour sharing with our neighbour to have 2 190 hp NH tractors. One has wide wheels for top work and the other narrow ones for ploughing and deeper cultivations.</p><p></p><p>But what always stuns me is that occasionally we put our 2155 Fastrac on the plough, which weighs a fraction of the NH's, is 35 hp less and it will not only out-plough the NH, but does a better job! It only has 480/70 R30 tyres on it.</p><p></p><p>The plough is a Dowdeswell DP120 hydraulic vari-width with DD's. We also have a 3 metre press. But we have mostly given up using it with the plough, because it doesn't allow the plough to do a good enough job on heavy land burying BG seed.</p><p></p><p>However we do pull it behind a shakerator, when necessary to break down the large clods that the shakerator creates on heavy land. I've often wondered about doing away with the packer on our Sumo Trio and towing this press instead. I'm sure it would create a better finish on heavy land. But I am becoming even more certain that the Sumo Trio has made our BG problem much worse!</p><p></p><p>We have also been known to pull the press behind a set of 3 metre discs. They not only seem to make the discs penetrate more, but leave a much better finish.</p><p></p><p>I sometimes wish I'd just stuck with ploughing everything, using an intermediate power harrow when needed ahead of a combi-drill. Diesel and steel are cheap compared with chemical BG control, which doesn't often work well enough. There is little doubt in my mind any more that min till has ruined this farm.</p><p></p><p>From now on, I plan to only use it ahead of Rape, where we can still kill BG chemically. But it will also now only be properly drilled, not broadcast or band seeded.</p><p></p><p>This year, we ploughed ahead of nearly every cereal, drilled reasonably early (late Sept/early Oct), pre-em'ed and Avadexed everything. We now have well established crops with very little if any BG.</p><p></p><p>But, it did plough really well, which helps. And the best ploughing is always straight into undisturbed stubble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 3161720, member: 44728"] Farming is often a compromise. As is life! We are lucky enough with the joint venture of machinery and labour sharing with our neighbour to have 2 190 hp NH tractors. One has wide wheels for top work and the other narrow ones for ploughing and deeper cultivations. But what always stuns me is that occasionally we put our 2155 Fastrac on the plough, which weighs a fraction of the NH's, is 35 hp less and it will not only out-plough the NH, but does a better job! It only has 480/70 R30 tyres on it. The plough is a Dowdeswell DP120 hydraulic vari-width with DD's. We also have a 3 metre press. But we have mostly given up using it with the plough, because it doesn't allow the plough to do a good enough job on heavy land burying BG seed. However we do pull it behind a shakerator, when necessary to break down the large clods that the shakerator creates on heavy land. I've often wondered about doing away with the packer on our Sumo Trio and towing this press instead. I'm sure it would create a better finish on heavy land. But I am becoming even more certain that the Sumo Trio has made our BG problem much worse! We have also been known to pull the press behind a set of 3 metre discs. They not only seem to make the discs penetrate more, but leave a much better finish. I sometimes wish I'd just stuck with ploughing everything, using an intermediate power harrow when needed ahead of a combi-drill. Diesel and steel are cheap compared with chemical BG control, which doesn't often work well enough. There is little doubt in my mind any more that min till has ruined this farm. From now on, I plan to only use it ahead of Rape, where we can still kill BG chemically. But it will also now only be properly drilled, not broadcast or band seeded. This year, we ploughed ahead of nearly every cereal, drilled reasonably early (late Sept/early Oct), pre-em'ed and Avadexed everything. We now have well established crops with very little if any BG. But, it did plough really well, which helps. And the best ploughing is always straight into undisturbed stubble. [/QUOTE]
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