Triton direct seed drill

[Suffolk Serf]

Well lads it's time for all you doubters to eat humble pie, kept it quiet but we drilled one field with the Triton in the snow, then irrigated it with amino A, here's the results(Any suggestions the header width got confused will be met with the usual response)

Aren't you a bit disappointed that it didn't make 150 t/ha?

 

[Fraserb]

Aren't you a bit disappointed that it didn't make 150 t/ha?

Yeah in reality thats what we hoped for.

 

[Luke Cropwalker]

Well lads it's time for all you doubters to eat humble pie, kept it quiet but we drilled one field with the Triton in the snow, then irrigated it with amino A, here's the results(Any suggestions the header width got confused will be met with the usual response)

Would cost a fortune to dry all that grain at that moisture content, Triton drills are rubbish!

 

[Spud]

Bit thin, no Amino A??

The pic is obvs of the wrong field - everyone knows that Triton drilled crops produce 1100heads/sqm and yield a minimum of 14t/ha, from a gallon of AminoA and half a sniff of a cheap fungicide.

 

[Fraserb]

Would cost a fortune to dry all that grain at that moisture content, Triton drills are rubbish!

That's not moisture it's the excess amino ready coated to help next year's crop.

 

[teslacoils]

If you use a fendt to pull your Triton, I'm reliably informed you need *two* spare tanks for the fuel and #aminoA they actually produce. And you can all afford a fendt now with all that dosh you earnt contracting with your drills at 320ha a day output.

 

[warksfarmer]

any update on how these crops have yielded? Some wheat we mauled in in November with a new Sulky combi drill has been the best yielding crop on the farm this year. So genuinely interested @R J H

Not yet. End of the week hopefully.

 

[Jackall]

Any time now we shall hear that Triton have a combine that works in monsoon conditions yielding averaging 15 tons of wheat at 14% moisture at 10 ha an hour.

 

[Alistair Nelson]

‘Pike you stupid boy’ a manufacturer already makes an ‘Ideal’ candidate for that, haven’t you read the brochure.

sorry couldn’t resist

 

[Clive]

Well lads it's time for all you doubters to eat humble pie, kept it quiet but we drilled one field with the Triton in the snow, then irrigated it with amino A, here's the results(Any suggestions the header width got confused will be met with the usual response)

quick, call Farmers Weekly .......... they will print that ( if Triton and AminoA pay )

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Now Clive your not supposed to be as synical as the rest of us

 

[Fraserb]

quick, call Farmers Weekly .......... they will print that ( if Triton and AminoA pay )

They'll definetely print it when I tell them it was a dissapointimg 132 t/ha as we were hoping for the 150

 

[Jackall]

It did cross my mind to mention a certain black/dark grey combine but astute TFF members may think I was just making up a jackanory story. Anybody drilling their rape during storm Ellen with a triton this weekend. Should yield 7 ton ha next July.

 

[Hjwise]

Has anyone sensible tried & tested the drill and offered a balanced view on it? I haven’t seen many used drills advertised which I presume means either that the users are happy with it or the resale value is so poor it’s not worth selling. This can’t be said for a number of strip till drills.

 

[AF Salers]

Or they didn’t sell like hotcakes last back end as they claimed they were.

 

[Shutesy]

Has anyone sensible tried & tested the drill and offered a balanced view on it? I haven’t seen many used drills advertised which I presume means either that the users are happy with it or the resale value is so poor it’s not worth selling. This can’t be said for a number of strip till drills.

@warksfarmer has got one and some crops drilled with it I believe. He will say it exactly as it is good or bad so looking forward to hearing what hes got to say.

 

[Henry B]

It would be nice to have a balanced view. Someone must be able to surely.

 

[nick...]

I’m sure they work perfectly ok but it’s just the claims by the makers that are ridiculous
nick...

 

[average farmer]

I’m sure they work perfectly ok but it’s just the claims by the makers that are ridiculous
nick...

Price seems a bit steep to

 

[teslacoils]

I’m sure they work perfectly ok but it’s just the claims by the makers that are ridiculous
nick...

^^^^^ this ^^^^^

Let's face it, getting a seed into some soil is not overly tricky. The reason this thread is so ace is a combination of a) how it is marketed and b) how the makers Twitter feed is managed.