Tine drill solutions?

alomy75

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We run them in one of our cereal plot drills. I’ve tightened the springs so much that they’re basically solid now; they were just flexing constantly and we only drill at 2k and not very deep at all. Lots of sideways slap too from brand new; it can be packed out with washers though. I personally wouldn’t entertain them on a commercial drill; I’d go weaving rubber sausage or the new tine assembly from metcalfe. I bought them because they don’t take up too much space width-wise.
 

richheady

Member
@richheady @clbarclay did anyone use these weaving conversion tines?

if you only ran 24 legs instead of 48 on a 6m, guess stress on frame less. trash flow better.

Surely we're only trying to get a seed in the ground 1" in soft November soil, cant be too much stress.
We did what you suggest, dropped the number of legs and use the auto reset sabre tines on our KV TS Evo. It works well on lighter and damper soils, and allowed me to get on and make a start on drilling before conditions dried up enough to get our Weaving GD out (see link). I need to sort some eradicators of as it left the seed uncovered behind the tractor wheels in places, and a couple of the tines have bent a little, but I think that was me pulling it through well tracked tramlines at an angle. I drilled two neighbouring fields one with the TS EVO with the sabre tines and the other with the GD, and there is nothing between them.
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