Short discs cover crop drill project.

Phil P

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Arable Farmer
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Joking aside , if you had a top cover that could be split three ways with diverters welded on the underside it could be fitted in one of three positions to supply front middle or back . Flexibility is the key .
Now you mention it I do have to maize cover that blanks half the pipes off, it would make it easy to switch between two sets of pipes or switch the lid to run both at the same time 🤔. I’ll see how much time I have to play around with the options as I’m wanting to be using it soon.
 

KB6930

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Borders
On the sumo trio I've been putting seed in front of the roller but in really light stuff it can sometimes be buried too deep because of the discs throwing soil around in there do I made up options for behind to try this year. I'd go with half and half if i was you especially with a following harrow
 
On my machine - probably mk 6 by now I reckon I’ve put the seed tubes on a swivel rail with a simple quadrant for angle variation. Forward into the discs for large seeds and back directly infront if the press roller for small.
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Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Made a little bit of progress today, well I feel like I’ve drilled a lot of holes if nothing else!
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Nearly finished the first row in front of the packer but not actually attached them yet.
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There’s going to be 23 pipes in front of the packer which leaves 9 pipes, I’m thinking of putting them on the back and making scatter plates then the following tines so hopefully should give a good mixture of seed depths.
 

Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Apologies for no updates!
I had some fields I really want to get some cover on ASAP so had to do a test run in the prototype stage 🤦🏻‍♂️😂
So, for now I’ve just gone with the one row of spouts in front of the packer and I’ve fitted a row of following tines which seem to be doing a really nice job. Not had chance for paint and had to use the old pipe just to get going!
Anyway I’ve done a bit last week so will go and have a look in the next couple of days to see if anything has emerged yet.
Couple of action pics though 👍🏼
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Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
I think you should be rather please with the results of your drills idea.
Simple and very effective.
Havery you tried puking oilseed rape in with it?
Been very pleased with it, the time and fuel savings alone have been impressive. Also been asked to try establishing some ab9 for a customer we do other contracting work for. So will be interesting to see how that goes.
 

O B Agri Services

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Mixed Farmer
Interested to know how this went! Any update? Love the idea of it having tubes both behind and in front of the packer roller. Gives you the best chance in all conditions I suppose!?
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Interested to know how this went! Any update? Love the idea of it having tubes both behind and in front of the packer roller. Gives you the best chance in all conditions I suppose!?
Hi OB,

The disc setup has worked really well on establishing covers for the past couple of years, been really pleased with its simplicity.
I haven’t added any additional seed pipes behind the packer as the establishment has been excellent with just the single row of outlets.
The only thing I’m going to do is angle the end of the outlet tubes as if the soil is quite damp it can occasionally plug the end of a tube and block. Hopefully a slight angle will reduce that happening.
I need to re-establish my ab9 this year so going to use them to do that and see how it goes. I’ve yet to pluck up enough courage to use them on establishing any cash crops though.
 

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