The Claydon Terrablade

[Fat hen]

Anyone spot this at Cereals?

Like the simplicity of it. Bit like what organic farmers use.

Attaches to front linkage. Manual steer. Only thing is gotta be focused or you'll be hoeing up the crop!

Here's the link...
http://www.claydondrills.com/products/info/claydon-terrablade-m6

Any thoughts?

 

[Green oak]

98.5% blackgrass control. We're saved by the dreaded weed.

 

[Spud]

Any idea on price? Given a 3m straw rake (box section frame and a few tines) is the fat end of 8 grand, I dont expect theyre giving this scruffler thing away! It'll take some driving!

 

[kingfisher]

Recently done 100 acres with one of the prototype's, does take a bit of concentration but worth it for the control achieved, before and after pictures.

 

[Fat hen]

Think it was 13k. 6m width. Tbh I was expecting about half that given that there's not much to it.

Sounds great in theory. Must require massive concentration skills to keep it straight and at the right depth. Need to have Claydon width rows too I presume??

Has anyone used a weeder like this before?

 

[Fat hen]

That's impressive. is the 30cm row thing compliant with the Claydon drill. Or are you using a different brand of drill?

 

[kingfisher]

Used Claydon drill with 5 inch a shares, traveling at about 5.5 km/hr, blades are designed to control their own depth.

 

[mo!]

Add in the cost of rtk on the drill and on the terrablade tractor, a set of really narrow rowcrops and it starts to add up. How late can you use it? One pass or multiple passes throughout the season? Were you able to drop any of the existing spend on chemicals?

 

[Shutesy]

Think it was 13k. 6m width. Tbh I was expecting about half that given that there's not much to it.

Sounds great in theory. Must require massive concentration skills to keep it straight and at the right depth. Need to have Claydon width rows too I presume??

Has anyone used a weeder like this before?

£13,000 for that, theres bugger all to it, no doubt its built well and had a lot of research and testing put into it, but £13k.....

 

[marco]

3 grand more like

 

[Badshot]

They're not £13k
But not £3k either.
Somewhere in the middle.
Hoeing is, I think, going to be a very important thing in future.

 

[clbarclay]

One issue will be if the blackgrass is distrobuted like the first picture @Feldspar posted in this thread.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...urely-in-terms-of-reduced-bg-emergence.59524/

You would be lucky to achive 1.5% control just from interrow hoeing in that situation.

 

[SilliamWhale]

They're not £13k
But not £3k either.
Somewhere in the middle.
Hoeing is, I think, going to be a very important thing in future.

Do you think it is going to be the next big thing? I'm not sure myself

 

[Will Blackburn]

If we can extricate ourselves from the EU then GM is the next big thing. You may as well go organic if you like hoes.

 

[Old John]

Think it was 13k. 6m width. Tbh I was expecting about half that given that there's not much to it.

Sounds great in theory. Must require massive concentration skills to keep it straight and at the right depth. Need to have Claydon width rows too I presume??

Has anyone used a weeder like this before?

They used to still hoe wheat unti the early 50's. My mother leading the horse and father steering the hoe behind. The hoe was still in the nettles until the 70's. Did 13 rows at 7 and a bit inch spacing. I don't think they thought it particularly difficult compared to hoeing sugar beet with side hoes only about 2" apart. Any accidents were put down to "steel worm".

 

[Badshot]

Do you think it is going to be the next big thing? I'm not sure myself

I can easily see it being used in conjunction with strip, band sowing.
In areas with massive bg pressures steel is the last thing, with no resistance.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

One issue will be if the blackgrass is distrobuted like the first picture @Feldspar posted in this thread.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...urely-in-terms-of-reduced-bg-emergence.59524/

You would be lucky to achive 1.5% control just from interrow hoeing in that situation.

You would almost increase it in that situation with the interrow disturbance?
Another good tool in the box though (but might be cheaper to get a kiwi to make one) as it doesn't look like $20k worth of steel

 

[Tractor Boy]

You would almost increase it in that situation with the interrow disturbance?
Another good tool in the box though (but might be cheaper to get a kiwi to make one) as it doesn't look like $20k worth of steel

No, but your famous drill doesn't look like £175k of steel either.

 

[Rob Holmes]

I thought i was told a 6m one would be around £8k? I could be wrong

 

[Kiwi Pete]

No, but your famous drill doesn't look like £175k of steel either.

I didn't know it was famous, but if you want to send me £174k its all yours