Today at work
- Thread starter Penmoel
- Start date
- Location
- south norfolk
Tried some drilling this morning.was far too wet and struggled to get wet soil through combination and it balled up on discs so I gave up.pic looks a lot lot better than it actually was.went about 200 yards and took half hour back in yard to dig the mud out.more rain Wednesday apparently and lots of it.the 3metre strip round the outside was drilled 4weeks ago on coming Wednesday.only done a round to get rid of some seed so I could get a bag in to go to another farm.beginning to think it could be the end for this year unless a prolonged dry spell or lots of frosts.
nick...
nick...
- Location
- East yorks
It lives
Feel like a proper crazy no till farmer now
Even tried straight into some forage rape, seems to work there as well. It’s a bit slotty in parts but will see what it all comes up like
Feel like a proper crazy no till farmer now
Even tried straight into some forage rape, seems to work there as well. It’s a bit slotty in parts but will see what it all comes up like
Warp Land Farmer
Member
- Location
- Hazzard County
Congratulations!!! Hope all your hard work pays off for youIt lives
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Feel like a proper crazy no till farmer now
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Even tried straight into some forage rape, seems to work there as well. It’s a bit slotty in parts but will see what it all comes up like
grainboy
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
- Location
- Near Colchester
Monday morning, pigs away.
Cleaning up where the crap hay has been fed to the cows now that the field is to be ploughed.
That bucket was magic for that job.
There was quite a heap after a while.
Cleaning up where the crap hay has been fed to the cows now that the field is to be ploughed.
That bucket was magic for that job.
There was quite a heap after a while.
Dman2
Member
- Location
- Durham, UK
Me being a peasant farmer with an old conventional box drill.It lives
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Feel like a proper crazy no till farmer now
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Even tried straight into some forage rape, seems to work there as well. It’s a bit slotty in parts but will see what it all comes up like
How do you know the seed will be distributed evenly to the tubes?
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Good question!
Either....
There’s a hamster inside the distribution head counting them all.
or....
The air flow to the distribution head is split evenly between each of the smaller pipes due to the physics of air pressure. The seed is equally suspended within the air stream and thus is carried within it in each tube. i.e each cubic ft of air contains 50g of seed or such.
or....
It just seems to work and the plants come up evenly so it suggests that it does.
(pick whichever of the above fits your beliefs and allows you to sleep at night
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Warp Land Farmer
Member
- Location
- Hazzard County
What’s the Hamsters name?Good question!
Either....
There’s a hamster inside the distribution head counting them all.
or....
The air flow to the distribution head is split evenly between each of the smaller pipes due to the physics of air pressure. The seed is equally suspended within the air stream and thus is carried within it in each tube. i.e each cubic ft of air contains 50g of seed or such.
or....
It just seems to work and the plants come up evenly so it suggests that it does.
(pick whichever of the above fits your beliefs and allows you to sleep at night
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
- Location
- East yorks
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Dilyn.
- Location
- mid cornwall
Been a busy week or so here, started last weekend with a bit of maize and slurry, dung spreading on Tuesday, mowing Wednesday, and drilling grass/winter barley Thursday-monday, should of been through it quicker or with shorter days but breakdowns and issues dictated the pace
Oh yes - think it’s done about .25t/ac but looked really good until about 2 to 3 weeks ago when it got thrashed but the weather. Loads of growth in the floor and no a sign of Mr CSFB. Typical
- Location
- The Cotswolds
They are not. When I worked for DICKEY-john I had many conversations with major OEMs about this. We were developing a seed counting sensor and this frightened them as it would show how bad the distribution is....
Av Gorritt
Member
- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
Even as a child , I never had a hamster . Should I feel disadvantaged ? We did have a guinea pig called George that was very partial indeed to marmalade toast , so perhaps that evens things up a bit.
- Location
- East yorks
As I was drilling at 280kg he was joined by Gladys as he couldn’t get them down the holes fast enough on his own .
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
