Small direct drill

Cheesehead

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It appears Santa decided to come early this year and drives a Discovery
 

Cheesehead

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Kent
For us it is most around us are arable units bar a 1200 to 1500 dairy which has larger kit than a lot of the arable guys a lot of the contractors are now setup geared to their size, a number of our field they can't get into, with our 2f Ransome and our set of discs that I would say are older the little grey fergies that need to be picked up and driven on a trailer to the fields followed by a week of sticking it back together afterwards. Dad won't touch power harrows or anything similar, some of our fields are rich in clover but the grasses are past their best with the drill allowing us to stitch some in, some cultivating would make it harder to get to a number of other fields which are accessible only through them.

All about finding a system that suits you as even here farms and ground vary a lot, a lot are clay soils them a neighbouring farm is basically chalk another has a load of sandy soil and some have no end of flint about four inches under. What suits one won't suit another, this suits us.
 
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hendrebc

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Yale

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Thanks @Bury the Trash (y) cameras or anythung electronic arent a strong point of mine. As everyone can tell by the sideways dog evwry time im on here and now my sideways drill. I have no idea how to turn either of them :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I don’t have any idea either.

All I know is if I take the pictures with the camera the right way up then they usually end up being OK.:confused:
 

Cheesehead

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Kent
Your camera skills would work well here mum took a video that you have to watch with your ear on your shoulder but thankfully it's only of my sister's horse so all sensible people don't watch it and one of my sister's friends took it to a show and filmed their feet as they walked around and switched it off to film the rings.
 

Cheesehead

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if they've the money then fair do's IMO.....i mean what is £9k in the bank going to earn:rolleyes:....plus it's wales so perhaps a grant?
Actually we're in Kent, we looked at the Leader grant but felt the hastle just wasn't worth it, we had one contractor that was brilliant locally when they would spread out fertiliser in the spring and would slot us in between other jobs as they could could cover our farm with their Bateman in pretty much a morning but cultivation wise their machinery was to big another that we used packed up and since we tend to try and do things ourselves as even here things can go from bone dry to too wet very quickly and most we have seen then to till too deep and don't break the clods down enough for grass or at least to my dad's preferred standards.

If we replaced our existing kit even with secondhand it would have cost us a lot more and it is not always easy finding descent kit small enough for our roads and tractors but big enough that we aren't working the field for a fortnight, as most farms our size tend to prefer to buy and run until uneconomical to repair than most arable units that tend to replace kit as it gets out of warranty or change it for a newer model as for box drill we prefer simple, less to go wrong easier to fix and we prefer to not to add all the seed in one go as it is easier to pick up on any problems.

Plus there are only 2 of us 700 ewes and my dad is past 80
 

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