Spreading in the wet.

[thebull]

Morning all, it’s getting very wet down here in Aus, with nearly 8” for August the paddocks are boggy as hell. At the moment running our linkage Bogballe on the T7 is out of the question and will be for a while.
We are thinking about putting duals on the front and back to increase floatation.
does anyone have experience using duals to stay on top of the ground rather than for traction or compaction?

Would be running dual 650 42s on the rear and dual 600 28s on the front.

thanks.

 

[Sharpy]

Morning all, it’s getting very wet down here in Aus, with nearly 8” for August the paddocks are boggy as hell. At the moment running our linkage Bogballe on the T7 is out of the question and will be for a while.
We are thinking about putting duals on the front and back to increase floatation.
does anyone have experience using duals to stay on top of the ground rather than for traction or compaction?

Would be running dual 650 42s on the rear and dual 600 28s on the front.

thanks.

Floatation is the main reason when they are used round here, I would put tyres on the duals with a bit less tread than the tractor wheels to help with turning.

 

[Acke]

Put duals on and lower psi pressure in tires!

 

[7610 super q]

Wonder if the spreader would be better on a bogey with flotation tyres ?

 

[Acke]

Most importent is duals on rearaxel , front is less needed! Put the outer wheels with distanse so mud did not build up between the wheels. Clay might make a mess between duals and innerwheels.

 

[SMID]

It would be a rare occasion when we didnt run with duals (2 x 600s) for early ferts

 

[puppet]

Put the tractor back in the yard for a week and then fill the hopper half way.

And yes, duals will help.

 

[David.]

Do you not have aerial spreaders in your part of Aus?

 

[Boohoo]

Duals will help, but if you don't have any I'd try taking the loader off, reducing tyre pressures and putting less in the spreader first.

 

[thebull]

Put the tractor back in the yard for a week and then fill the hopper half way.

And yes, duals will help.

We’re running against the calendar unfortunately. That photo was taken with about 100kg left in the bin

 

[thebull]

Do you not have aerial spreaders in your part of Aus?

We do but our strip is pretty well water logged and the nearest one is too far away to make it economically viable

 

[Kiwi Pete]

We'd generally get the helicopter in, if it's that soft
looks like a plane-sized job, but you might need a floatplane - to land local?

5 tonnes is 5 tonnes however you dress it up, is the unfortunate fact of the matter.
Duals, you'd need to maintain a very wide clearance and still generate a fair bit of compaction at depth.

R1000's would be better than duals

 

[CPF]

I have seen fert spreader on quadtrac it was a 380 when it’s too wet to go with wheel tractors, a few years ago It was amazing our little damaged it did we did get all the fert on.

 

[Acke]

We'd generally get the helicopter in, if it's that soft
looks like a plane-sized job, but you might need a floatplane - to land local?

5 tonnes is 5 tonnes however you dress it up, is the unfortunate fact of the matter.
Duals, you'd need to maintain a very wide clearance and still generate a fair bit of compaction at depth.

R1000's would be better than duals

Duals is better on clay, they clean the ribs better!