Reseeding with a shattaboard/cambridge roll combination

[jerseycowsman]

Anybody got one of these tools and if so do you use it straight after ploughing old pasture! Does it really level and prepare the ground well enough for you to put the next grass seed on without use of any other implements. We do have light land with few stones

 

[rjs15t]

Think that the idea is that the seed goes on and is rolled in on the last pass, after the seedbed has been cultivated.

 

[billboy 1]

I have one and it will level ploughing but you need lots of hp as your bulldozing lots of soil with paddles

 

[jerseycowsman]

I've got a new 130 horses Massey, would that be alright on a 6 metre one?

 

[Chapelton]

We reseed 40ac every year with a 6m set of He-Vas with 160 hp (180 boost). We're using most of them on the hills, but I think they're the 620mm rings. A lot of the power is used by the shatter-boards, but when the tractor's struggling you can just lift them a little. We probably cover the ground 2/3 times, drill with an Einböck type machine then a final pass with the rolls just to get the seed-soil contact. We used to have a pass with the PH, but it destroys the soil structure and burns a lot of diesel. We wouldn't do it any other way now.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

We reseed 40ac every year with a 6m set of He-Vas with 160 hp (180 boost). We're using most of them on the hills, but I think they're the 620mm rings. A lot of the power is used by the shatter-boards, but when the tractor's struggling you can just lift them a little. We probably cover the ground 2/3 times, drill with an Einböck type machine then a final pass with the rolls just to get the seed-soil contact. We used to have a pass with the PH, but it destroys the soil structure and burns a lot of diesel. We wouldn't do it any other way now.

What about the headlands? It's all very well levelling reasonable ploughing, do you have to tackle the headlands with anything else to get them level?

 

[Chapelton]

Headlands get exactly the same treatment. If we needed to do anything else it might get a pass with an Xpress, but we've never needed to. A lot of it probably does come down to decent ploughing, but I wouldn't entertain any ploughing that wasn't!

 

[jerseycowsman]

Headlands get exactly the same treatment. If we needed to do anything else it might get a pass with an Xpress, but we've never needed to. A lot of it probably does come down to decent ploughing, but I wouldn't entertain any ploughing that wasn't!

Have you seen you can fit a seeder onto the roller?

 

[jerseycowsman]

A friend of mine had got a twose 6 m with a shatter board on it. I'm going to have a go with it.

 

[M-J-G]

On light land they are great, headlands aren't an issue, especially since they get more passes than any other part of the field.

I'll be surprised if you aren't pleased with the results.

 

[Johnny400]

I have a set of these rollers. They are my only cultivation tool i have. Will make a GOOD job with GOOD ploughing. Couple of passes and job done. Lighter stoney land here.

 

[Chapelton]

Have you seen you can fit a seeder onto the roller?

Yes I have, but we hire both the rollers and the tines so just have to work with what we can get hold of.