Suffolk coulters

[FarmyStu]

These seem to be going out of favour, with some manufacturers no longer listing them in their combi-drill options. Are they that bad? Other than being cheap, do they offer any other advantages?

 

[KB6930]

Light weight in comparison to disc units

 

[Wombat]

These seem to be going out of favour, with some manufacturers no longer listing them in their combi-drill options. Are they that bad? Other than being cheap, do they offer any other advantages?

Find them like dragging a stick down the road here and suited to lighter land really

 

[bumkin]

the problem with most modern suffolk coulters is they are swept back and ride up out of the ground, the old fashioned ones used to hook forward and would hold their depth a bit like the modern tine drill

 

[yellowbelly]

Things go in cycles - machinery trends are no different.
Suffolk coulters fell out of favour with the arrival of Massey drills (the 728 and then the 29 and then the excellent MF30)

Then the 1980's happened. Farming was on the crest of a wave, people were making (and could afford to make) much better seedbeds. Along came the Accord. Suddenly everybody and his brother traded in their MF30 for 4m,6m and even 8m Accords with Suffolk coulters.

Nowadays it's all about drilling into seedbeds that are still growing last year's cover crop so hey-ho, it needs something different to the old Suffolk.