Tine drills, Which ones would you recommend? And the ones to avoid

[nxy]

Million dollar question what do you run its place was it your only drill or wet weather fire engine drill?

Now running a Vaderstad Rapid as my main drill. The tine seeder was replaced by a KRM Optidrill which was bought in the UK very cheaply and I would rate as a better drill simply because it ran on a tyre packer. It was heavy though and that too has gone. I now spin cereals on if its that wet because I couldn't see any benefit from drilling when it gets too wet for the Rapid.

EDIT should have addded at the time it was my main drill. We drilled all sorts with it including Maize and Sunflowers and into some pretty terrible conditions, the concept and the tines design were basically good but the frame and tyres were not strong enough.

 

[Beretta]

Moved from a combi drill 9 years ago to a 6m KV ts Evo. Brilliant drill, low runnung cost. Have it on a 4 pot Valtra doing 10kph

 

[GOODYSMATE]

Not got any stony land so not sure how my KV TS would work ,i am on mainly clay soils and try to get it rolled afterwards so pre-ems work better . I did have one puncture in 150 acres of drilling as it found a broken hay-bob tine from turning straw from the previous year . Mine has 3 rows of tines and a following harrow and trash has gone though it ok so far .

 

[Hesstondriver]

It appears most people around here who have vaderstats also have a weaving time drill for when it’s wet ! And seem to get good results.

personally I like the look of the gasperado tube drill

 

[Dan Attle]

weve got a 4m weaving on a 120 hp claas pulling at 11kph goes well only grips are will pull it up so it doesnt look the best seedbed, fresh trash or wet trash does bung it up only having 4 row stagger and its easy to put it in deep but weve drilled 700 acres this autumn of cereals and grass been cheap simple drilling

 

[Jon]

Thinking of purchasing a tine drill, to speed up my drilling time ( combination drilling at the moment)
maiinly ploughing, but a bit of min till on the few seasons it dry enough.
must be able to drill beans.
Second hand ideally.

I have a Kuhn Megant 6 meter time drill.
Very pleased with it, current one replaces a second hand version of the same.
Handles a lot of trash, although the bolts fixing the markers on this new one break, which is frustrating.

 

[czechmate]

I have a Kuhn Megant 6 meter time drill.
Very pleased with it, current one replaces a second hand version of the same.
Handles a lot of trash, although the bolts fixing the markers on this new one break, which is frustrating.

My main gripe with the Megant is the tin things that bolt to the tine and take the seed tubes. They are too thin and fragile. I’ve see KV ones and they are much more substantial, in fact I got a couple to see if I could use them but it’s not a case of just bolting them on.

 

[snarling bee]

Get on well with our 6m KV TS. A few sensor niggles are about the only problems. We have reduced the tine number from 48 to 40 and seems to get on better in the wet and trash.
We now have 360hp on the front which is real overkill, but 175hp hardly enough on our wet heavy slopes.

 

[bobk]

Yes. I have them but I don’t run those wheels on the back. And strangely my front wheels are not twin, maybe that is a 6M?. Doesn’t look it though

Does it go straight in to stubble ?

 

[czechmate]

Does it go straight in to stubble ?

They are sold as « semi direct » (whatever that might mean), not direct. I did go straight into stubble with a field last Oct but it was getting quite wet. I am sure, if you try on dry hard stubble, springs will just break for fun

 

[bobk]

They are sold as « semi direct » (whatever that might mean), not direct. I did go straight into stubble with a field last Oct but it was getting quite wet. I am sure, if you try on dry hard stubble, springs will just break for fun

That's what I thought .

 

[czechmate]

Get on well with our 6m KV TS. A few sensor niggles are about the only problems. We have reduced the tine number from 48 to 40 and seems to get on better in the wet and trash.
We now have 360hp on the front which is real overkill, but 175hp hardly enough on our wet heavy slopes.

You drill at 30 K?

 

[czechmate]

That's what I thought .

Esp with 360 hp

 

[bobk]

Esp with 360 hp

Where we are in france they make quite rough seedbeds , probably to not have capped seedbeds . Vaddy seems to be the tool

 

[snarling bee]

You drill at 30 K?

I think it would.
At least we come back with more fuel than when we left.

 

[BigBarl]

Any experience running them in stony soils, as in amount of stone pulled up and prep needed after plough or disc?

They find stone like you wouldn’t believe. The roll man around our place stays fit getting off and chucking stones in the front box often enough!