Three rows of Suffolk Coulters

[Andy26]

How much better do three rows of Suffolk coulters handle trash versus two rows.

Is it worth retro fitting a third row?

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Definitely a cheap good value for money upgrade to an older drill.

 

[curly]

I have fitted an Andrew Guest 3 row kit to my 3m Kuhn/Accord power harrow combo & it transformed it. Not ploughing now but just using a Sumo Trio sometimes left too much trash on the surface especially when the contractor was cutting too high & left a lot of stubble. 2 rows would sometimes block but not with 3 rows. I used to get a contractor in with a Vaddy direct drill to go in after maize which was Sumoed 1st but now can even drill after maize now! It does block a little though but not enough to worry about.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Definitely better, but not brilliant imho.

Ours blocked a bit into what was a tall crop of winter beans, straw chopped. Heavy disced, then in with combi, very dry conditions. Definitely blocked anywhere combine had been stopped, and dragged a few bean stalks around in rest of field. Kuhn, accord.

Fairly good improvement with rape, where only very light pressure on coulters. Don't know I'd fancy drilling cereals if soil was a bit damp and not flowing through drill.

Might just about have been worth spending the money on. Cheap to run compared to disc coulters, but disc coulters wpuld be a lot better.

 

[Drillman]

Definitely better, but not brilliant imho.

Ours blocked a bit into what was a tall crop of winter beans, straw chopped. Heavy disced, then in with combi, very dry conditions. Definitely blocked anywhere combine had been stopped, and dragged a few bean stalks around in rest of field. Kuhn, accord.

Fairly good improvement with rape, where only very light pressure on coulters. Don't know I'd fancy drilling cereals if soil was a bit damp and not flowing through drill.

Might just about have been worth spending the money on. Cheap to run compared to disc coulters, but disc coulters wpuld be a lot better.

I would say similar. I find speed is my friend where it’s a bit trashy.

but 3 rows handle it much better than 2 did.

 

[KB6930]

How much better do three rows of Suffolk coulters handle trash versus two rows.

Is it worth retro fitting a third row?

Might work ok in the dry but any trash in wetter conditions will wrap round and they'll ride out onto the top . A disc drill is the best option.

 

[Andy26]

Thanks for the replies, think I will retro fit a third row of coulters.

 

[Andy26]

Might work ok in the dry but any trash in wetter conditions will wrap round and they'll ride out onto the top . A disc drill is the best option.

I understand the newer disc coulters are very good, the Amazone Rotec and Kuhn SeedFlex etc.

I've used an old Accord with CX discs and a Kuhn with a similar disc, and they were both poor in stony and cloddy conditions, just rode out the ground and left seed on the surface, an instance where suffolk coulters worked better.

 

[Will 1594]

Thanks for the replies, think I will retro fit a third row of coulters.

Give tim smith a call , went for a few bits couple weeks ago ,sure he had a disc coulter bar ,in yard
He sells a complete cx2 coulter bar , new also ,

 

[KB6930]

I understand the newer disc coulters are very good, the Amazone Rotec and Kuhn SeedFlex etc.

I've used an old Accord with CX discs and a Kuhn with a similar disc, and they were both poor in stony and cloddy conditions, just rode out the ground and left seed on the surface, an instance where suffolk coulters worked better.

Yeah they're pretty rubbish.

We've had a accord DAX and 4 kuhn seedflex and wouldn't even consider a Suffolk coulter again. When ploughing and sowing with the Suffolk coulter we used to get issues with stubble getting dragged from the endrig and wrapping round them and they just ran along the top so I'm fairly confident they'd be pretty rubbish in less than ideal min till conditions with trash the whole time

 

[Rust]

Weaving tine combi drill conversions

Hi, has anyone had one of these conversions carried out to say their accord or kuhn drill which had Suffolk coulters to begin with? If so how has it performed, happy with it etc?

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