Spreading cover crop mix

[Banana Bar]

Looking to use a spinner to spread cover crop seed over 12m ahead of a Kockerling Allrounder. Would a spinner spread a mix of peas, beans and oats accurately? Thoughts are to put this on the front linkage, alternative is a front hopper piped to the cultivator although the double fold of 12 metres looks very difficult to achieve.

BB

 

[Matt77]

I put oats through my krm this autumn, it was all a bit of a rush job with a promise of rain (it never came!!) didn’t test it and just assumed it wouldn’t do 24 and set off at 12m, it came up nice and even once it eventually rained.

 

[Clive]

Looking to use a spinner to spread cover crop seed over 12m ahead of a Kockerling Allrounder. Would a spinner spread a mix of peas, beans and oats accurately? Thoughts are to put this on the front linkage, alternative is a front hopper piped to the cultivator although the double fold of 12 metres looks very difficult to achieve.

BB

i don’t think you will spin multi species mixes very evenly ? Personally I would uses a boom or distribution heads piped to spreader plates on the cultivator

Horstine tma4 with booms for a front mounted solution at low cost ?

piped to rear heads will be harder at 12m from what I’ve learnt recently re front hoppers you will need twin distribution head set up so hoper with twin metering and x2 transfer pipes to rear. Can highly recommend the Horsch hopper if that’s the way you decide to go ........ not cheap though !

 

[Banana Bar]

i don’t think you will spin multi species mixes very evenly ? Personally I would uses a boom or distribution heads piped to spreader plates on the cultivator

Horstine tma4 with booms for a front mounted solution at low cost ?

piped to rear heads will be harder at 12m from what I’ve learnt recently re front hoppers you will need twin distribution head set up so hoper with twin metering and x2 transfer pipes to rear. Can highly recommend the Horsch hopper if that’s the way you decide to go ........ not cheap though !

TMA good idea.

 

[Robt]

Or a three tank seed drill.......

 

[Banana Bar]

Or a three tank seed drill.......

You working for Sky or Horsch?

 

[Spencer]

Yes a spinner will spread all you ask to 12m no problems, just don’t put too much of the seed mixture into the hopper at anyone time. Otherwise the mixture will separate with machine vibrations/agitators and you’ll end up with patches of different crops as opposed to a mixture..

 

[Brisel]

Did quite a big area with a Carrier followed by a Biodrill mounted on the back of my 12m rolls. Seed blown in front of the rolls. I specified a seeds mix that was only 19 kg/ha of small seeds so I could get more ha out of the 360 litre hopper on the drill.

I like the idea of a front mounted tank and outlets on the cultivator. As above, spinning a diverse mix of seed sizes accurately will be difficult as they will all fly different distances according to density, shape etc.

 

[tw15]

Do big seeds with fert spinner first then small seeds with slug pelleter on front of tractor pulling 6 mtr discs and rolls job done . Don't over complicate a simple job .

 

[Banana Bar]

Do big seeds with fert spinner first then small seeds with slug pelleter on front of tractor pulling 6 mtr discs and rolls job done . Don't over complicate a simple job .

I may do this but if I can do two jobs at the same time at 12 metres wide it must be sensible?

 

[Will 1594]

Looking to use a spinner to spread cover crop seed over 12m ahead of a Kockerling Allrounder. Would a spinner spread a mix of peas, beans and oats accurately? Thoughts are to put this on the front linkage, alternative is a front hopper piped to the cultivator although the double fold of 12 metres looks very difficult to achieve.

BB

Where about are you wantingto Drop seed your beans peas really want drilling to consistent depth to bury them , or you will have every pigeon and rook for miles round , feasting on then , and to get them deep enough with cultivator will it not bury oats too deep . Tma would not handle peas beans through it’s rotors .
you have a quad track to pull it . Mount a twin hopper accord on either arms or over top of back chassis , split hopper , make some bean coulters for front row of tines and then pea oat mix through other side of hopper with another mushroom further back on machine so get mixed in less deep , drawbar on back of machine to pull rolls of dry enough ,
Doing this but on a 3 m machine.
we are not at your scale , but can see what you trying to achieve. Less passes

 

[Robt]

You working for Sky or Horsch?

The new Sulky Progress combination drill has three tanks. The Sky drill from our sister company has 4 I believe

 

[Robt]

Where about are you wantingto Drop seed your beans peas really want drilling to consistent depth to bury them , or you will have every pigeon and rook for miles round , feasting on then , and to get them deep enough with cultivator will it not bury oats too deep . Tma would not handle peas beans through it’s rotors .
you have a quad track to pull it . Mount a twin hopper accord on either arms or over top of back chassis , split hopper , make some bean coulters for front row of tines and then pea oat mix through other side of hopper with another mushroom further back on machine so get mixed in less deep , drawbar on back of machine to pull rolls of dry enough ,
Doing this but on a 3 m machine.
we are not at your scale , but can see what you trying to achieve. Less passes

Isn’t the idea to drill beams at a reduced depth when companion cropping with wheat. That way the beams grow to a certain size to fix nitrogen then get killed by the frost?

 

[Will 1594]

Isn’t the idea to drill beams at a reduced depth when companion cropping with wheat. That way the beams grow to a certain size to fix nitrogen then get killed by the frost?

No idea , what is he wanting to acheive .? Heavy or light land , so many variables ,some work some dont ,

 

[Banana Bar]

Isn’t the idea to drill beams at a reduced depth when companion cropping with wheat. That way the beams grow to a certain size to fix nitrogen then get killed by the frost?

Yes Rob, the seeds only need covering. There won’t be many pigeons or rooks around in August. Putting a cover in ahead of spring barley or oats. I tried a similar mix this year and drilled it very shallow with a sprinter, it worked well enough for me to try it again with the cultivator.