Simba free-flow direct drill

BIG PACK

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north yorkshire
so a update, drill went as hoped, and seemed to cope fairly well, as eveyone else's barely only just emeagring in my part of leicestershire.

due to some of my land being on clay brick land, im thinking i need to incorapte some sort of front opening leg to create some form of tilth. so then the seed opening leg will have a easier time.

so im moving more towards strip till drilling simliar concept to mzuri pro till/claydon hydrbid/vaderstad seed hawk .

what im thinking again is to use the orginal front freeflow toolbar, again as before the same simba freeflow legs and move the welded on frame brackets along the tool bar to be exactly in front of my seeding legs.

have people got any thoughts on what could be a nice cheap low disturbance foot to put on in front of my vos double seed opners. Im thinking something like a cousins microwing. any ideas thoughts would be appreicated
Any chance of and up date farmerman , how did autumn drilling go with it , are you happy with the results ?
did you fit some low disturbance legs to it ?
 

case44

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Just got these Metcalfe narrow tines to go on my 3m Freeflow.
 

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willyorkshire

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Arable Farmer
Location
East Yorkshire
Evening

so I purchased a 4m freeflow of a fellow forum member (Blair) @B R C

I wanted to dip my toe into direct drilling with out spending a fortune and I’m fairly handy with spanners so thought I could perhaps achieve something in the workshop.

afters lots of research I decided to build my own mounting brackets which are fully moveable on the drill frame.

Again plenty of research and have gone with the vos double openers where the way to go. (Set at 260mm centres)

the drill is nearing completion and is more or less ready for a filed trial.

Will update in more detail if people are interested, my budget was £5000 it came all in at £4400 Including drill purchase and the vos openers and adaptors plates.
Miles
Keep us updated. Maybe you need a blog for this?
 

Nearly

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Location
North of York
I'm late to the party but this has just landed.
Was on ebay but bought it direct.
Haulage bill will make me wince.
3m with 24 metcalf tungsten points.
A bit of advice from @Romeogolf
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A couple of leaky oil rams and needs a set of following harrows.
What's the benefits of internal or external coiled harrow tines?
Thanks.
 
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alomy75

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I'm late to the party but this has just landed.
Was on ebay but bought it direct.
Haulage bill will make me wince.
3m with 24 metcalf tungsten points.
A bit of advice from @Romeogolf
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A couple of leaky oil rams and needs a set of following harrows.
What's the benefits of internal or external coiled harrow tines?
Thanks.
Nice. There’s 2 types of Harrow tines to give you stagger. Ditch them all and go for vaderstad ones; Simba ones are hard to find.
 

Smithy67

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fife
I'm late to the party but this has just landed.
Was on ebay but bought it direct.
Haulage bill will make me wince.
3m with 24 metcalf tungsten points.
A bit of advice from @Romeogolf
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A couple of leaky oil rams and needs a set of following harrows.
What's the benefits of internal or external coiled harrow tines?
Thanks.
Hi, I put these on mine. It's a KV/Accord/ Claydon part available from Agrilinc. The holding plate is a Weaving stubble rake part cut in two. They seam to work fine.
 

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Much prefer the zig zag style tines, they don’t last as well but vertical tines rake up too much trash and leave lumps of it on the headland. Zig zags also help to push a bit of soil into the slot if conditions aren’t as good as they could be.
 

Nearly

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Location
North of York
Is there any reason NOT to use some light chain to act as a safety chain on the Metcalf points?
I've read the Simba legs do occasionally break. It's going to be a dry drilling time.
 

Smithy67

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fife
Is there any reason NOT to use some light chain to act as a safety chain on the Metcalf points?
I've read the Simba legs do occasionally break. It's going to be a dry drilling time.
As in to stop the legs bending back to far? Actually sounds like a good idea.
Slow and steady is what I find reduces tine breakage.
 

alomy75

Member
Is there any reason NOT to use some light chain to act as a safety chain on the Metcalf points?
I've read the Simba legs do occasionally break. It's going to be a dry drilling time.
That’s what Simba did with the tine keepers on the culti press onwards I think…a little bracket to stop the tines going too far back but I seem to recall the breakages are actually caused when the tine auto resets back to its working position and actually goes beyond its working position ie too far forwards
 

Nearly

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Location
North of York
Chain to attach the point to the frame in case the leg breaks and you need to call the local detectorists in to find the little lump of precious metal!
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1m of 4mm chain out of various old overhead winches. Squeeze one end link in the vice to take an M8 bolt.
M8 x 50mm bolt to fasten it to seed pipe bracket
M6x 60mm bolt and nylock nut to fasten other end onto frame.
 

Fendt820

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Broken a few tines in the past found the seed pipes held them then on headland could see only ever broken in stoney ground that was being mintiled
 

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