- Location
- south staffs
it would be interesting to see the results of lowering the seeding boot on the 750a for trash clearance as that only costs time and perhaps a bit more wear on the drill.
Tips for a 750A novice
- Thread starter Louis Mc
- Start date
seems to be fine - early crops are up and away now
not used the carrier so much this year as drill/combine driver has been able to fit it in between harvest and it was very dry here so wanted to conserve moisture in early august. Carrier does work well though, used lightly is doesn't disturb too much and you can sit anyone on it as its a very simple machine
maybe pushing things but @dontknowanything 10" wheat was a success ? and my own farm record wheat was a seed hawk demo on wide rows ..............
you need to sell it. It's costing repair. There are people on the forum which sold their old IH tractor which was fully depreciated, as it's cheaper to rent every year a tractor. Had to buy a posh trailer for their Landy to be able to haul the fire wood for the open fire in the living room in the winter, as no tractor on the farm any more around.
And guess what?
On which tractors are the young one learning to drive? Not on the Fendt 936, or? No, I remember, it was a David Brown 35 hp one in my case.
My oldest was on holiday this year at a working farm. Boy was it a change for here. Was allowed to drive a little blue Landini and a MF combine with 15ten. How many town kid's are able to experience that? Now, as both the oldest spend time on farms, the farm life seems queite atractive to them. Many thanks to the host's of them.... Well done.
Sorry, went a little off topic. Keep the Claydon, you might want to use it more than you plan right now.
York-Th.
I tried this on a couple of coulters and couldn't see any real difference Parker. I was surprised by the amount of wear on them though when I finally changed them back, that was after planting 120ac with the drill in its shallowest setting. I think the boots are quite expensive, so i didn't consider this much of a solution. Certainly moving the damn things is a right pain, well it is in the field with only a few odd spanners!
Compared to min til were everything is mixed together, I'm hoping the seed is pressed nicely in the bottom of the slot, in contact with the soil, and it will grow through the chaff and straw lying on top. Its the ugliest bit of drilling i have ever done, but it seems to be coming up nicely.
SilliamWhale
Member
Sometimes more downpressure and weight can help. In the USA Matt Hagny recommends havnig the rockshaft tilting backwards with extra pressure and I think this will have an effect on hairpining too.
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Surely this is all that is important, don't worry about what it looks like.
Boot wear will be higher if you lower them, personally I wouldn't use the lowest two settings ( 1/2 and 3/4 inch deep ) for any seeding.
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Tilting the rockshaft back would have the same effect as lowering the boot, both would lower the boot position in relation to the gauge wheel, however tilting the frame backwards to achieve a more tilted rockshaft will result in more wear on the rear coulters than the front ones and differing seeding depths between the front and rear rows so it only really works if you have one row locked up.
Just go clarify matters:- hairpinning is when trash is folded into a slot and the seed is then placed into the folded straw. As the soil dries the trash then tries to straighten flicking the seed out of the ground, ie bad. Not to be confused with a bit of chopped straw in the slot which isn't really a problem.
- Location
- Ashford, Kent
For the the first thing to reduce trash problems is to lift the combine header up. Cut high. If you are not baling straw why do you want to put it through the combine? It costs fuel causes troubles later. Also as Simon said drill deeper. Don't try to go too shallow.
- Location
- North Kent, UK
We struggled with hair pinning last year when drilling rape into a thick mat of wheat straw, so made a few changes this time around. Some has been baled as a one off experiment but I'm not keen on selling organic matter! The other thing we've (I mean Dad!) done , is to make a set of row sweepers to clear the way in front of the coulters. We are only using the back row to sow rape. Should be through in a couple of days time so will post some photos.
would love to see pictures of your dads fabrication as i'm sure that's the solution for OSR when straw is chopped, the one I tried form Australia was good but a full set even for just 1 row would costs as much as you can buy a cheap tine drill for !
- Location
- North Kent, UK
All drilled into chopped spring barley stubble at the weekend so should be up in a couple more days.
any pics of the cleaners on the drill ?
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Couldn't run them all in a row at the back because they dragged up wet straw. Now they are staggered , with half mounted at the front, but lined up with the rear disc. They are adjustable but could do with a bit more fettleing!
that will work ! very interesting !
rear row only drilling ? double row width ?
- Location
- North Kent, UK
Correct, front counters blanked off in distributor head and depth set at shallowest setting. (4m drill). Will post more photos when it emerges ....hope it hasn't drowned with 50mm of rain since drilling!
how did you keep the front coulter bar out the ground ? taps on the rams ?
- Location
- North Kent, UK
No, that was the plan, but the wings would be quite difficult to do. All we are doing is individual coulters on the front row lifted to minimum depth on the adjuster pegs.
so your front discs are still in the ground a bit just not seeding ? could you not just put line lock taps on all the rams that pivot the front bar to stop them going down ? worry though would be uneven disc wear front to rear - I reckon it would be wise to have a set of rear discs just for OSR seeding
- Location
- North Kent, UK
I know what your saying, but we've cut down to 50ha of rape now so it's not going make a great deal of difference.