Triton direct seed drill

[Wigeon]

The thing I love more than anything else about this thread is the fact that no matter how explicit the mickey-taking, or how strong the sarcasm, certain propagandists just keep smashing on at 18k.

 

[R J H]

The thing I love more than anything else about this thread is the fact that no matter how explicit the mickey-taking, or how strong the sarcasm, certain propagandists just keep smashing on at 18k.

this is a excellent drill in the wet one large farming company have got 2 drills and just ordered a third, this says a lot about the drills ability to drill in the wet and the trust they have in it. if it was no good they would not have ordered a third drill., the problem is the back log of orders , if made they would sell hundreds of them

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

this is a excellent drill in the wet one large farming company have got 2 drills and just ordered a third, this says a lot about the drills ability to drill in the wet and the trust they have in it. if it was no good they would not have ordered a third drill., the problem is the back log of orders , if made they would sell hundreds of them

Scaling up manufacture would be extremely easy given the simplicity of the frame / wheels / coulter. The fabrication element of the drill is quite basic to any medium sized engineering company. I suspect that the large farming company has too much work todo in a catchy year like this and is grabbing onto a potential solution to appease the accountants. An interesting test would be an appearance at an independent demo such a Groundwell focused at the no-till gang or on a farmer with nothing to hide such as @teslacoils (who has already offered a patch of his farm up). Take all the sensationalisation and pee taking of this thread to one side and put the drill into a real world set of conditions and monitor its performance over the cropping year and publish.

 

[R J H]

Scaling up manufacture would be extremely easy given the simplicity of the frame / wheels / coulter. The fabrication element of the drill is quite basic to any medium sized engineering company. I suspect that the large farming company has too much work todo in a catchy year like this and is grabbing onto a potential solution to appease the accountants. An interesting test would be an appearance at an independent demo such a Groundwell focused at the no-till gang or on a farmer with nothing to hide such as @teslacoils (who has already offered a patch of his farm up). Take all the sensationalisation and pee taking of this thread to one side and put the drill into a real world set of conditions and monitor its performance over the cropping year and publish.

late wheat drilling nov last year triton produced 3.75 ton ha, power harrow drill seed rotted and had to be redrilled with spring barley, no comparison cheep drill work well in wet , it was my insurance policy for a wet time when i bought it last year, payed off well this year ,just one potato field left to drill jan!!!

 

[Spud]

this is a excellent drill in the wet one large farming company have got 2 drills and just ordered a third, this says a lot about the drills ability to drill in the wet and the trust they have in it. if it was no good they would not have ordered a third drill., the problem is the back log of orders , if made they would sell hundreds of them

How big is said ’farming company’ to need three Tryiton drills? A 4.8m drill will pop 600ac a DAY in the ground, with 150hp and a good slug of AminoA, a steady average of 5t/ac sold at £250t/t, the hard bit is spending all the brass!

 

[R J H]

How big is said ’farming company’ to need three Tryiton drills? A 4.8m drill will pop 600ac a DAY in the ground, with 150hp and a good slug of AminoA, a steady average of 5t/ac sold at £250t/t, the hard bit is spending all the brass!

big nation wide company 10k+acres

 

[Spud]

big nation wide company 10k+acres

You're very well versed in the customers of Triton, given your a customer, rather than a part of the company.....

 

[T Hectares]

Said biostimulant manufacturer told me that a big national farming Co had seen "huge" yield increases in trial areas of treated crop and are now lashing on gallons of their jallop over their thousands of acres of crops...



Yet NIAB tag say on one trial there's limited evidence of a yield uplift but only in a reduced fungicide spend, and that still resulted in a lower yield than a conventional fung spend, and the bios cost the same as a middling fung spend ?

2022 will see all bios having to back up their claims with evidence to get licenced, can't wait ?

 

[D14]

late wheat drilling nov last year triton produced 3.75 ton ha, power harrow drill seed rotted and had to be redrilled with spring barley, no comparison cheep drill work well in wet , it was my insurance policy for a wet time when i bought it last year, payed off well this year ,just one potato field left to drill jan!!!

3.75 tonnes per HA - that’s rubbish.

 

[Spencer]

3.75 tonnes per HA - that’s rubbish.

Finally he’s admitted the ACTUAL yield..

 

[ajd132]

Drill looks good as a wet weather backup and is priced well also. The November drilling for black grass control they suggest will work for a few years until the population shifts to November/December germinating strains.

 

[Alistair Nelson]

big nation wide company 10k+acres

personnally if I was a director of said large farming company I would not be amused by this use of there name unless this was part of the deal they negotiated as part of the deal which has been known to happen.

In my farm force days I sold drill also to said company and the farmers weekly farm at Easton lodge and even a leading progressive farmer in the Lichfield area! What difference did that make well it all helped but at the end of the day each machine has to work and do what is required for that specific customer and each deal has to stack up financially in its own right for both the seller and purchaser.

 

[Clive]

The AHDB bought one ........ but didn’t !

it’s hard to know what to believe frankly

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Exactly I quite agree I know what I sold and to who at farm force and we never gave machines away on extended demo / evaluation or if you get one on my farm I sell them for you deal. Every deal stood up in its own right. But other manufacturers either with big budgets or bigger ego’s do all sorts of things to create an image and perceived market presence. But in the long run it can only work if the product is good enough. In the same way a buy backs on machines you can only prop up the s/h market for so long before it has to stand up on its own 2 feet.

 

[farenheit]

The AHDB bought one ........ but didn’t !

it’s hard to know what to believe frankly

I'd believe the AHDB

And I would never buy a Triton drill knowing that they are so indiscreet as to tell this farmer @R J H about all my business. Never mind them rabbiting on about patent infringement bollox on twitter, they should be getting themselves geared up for a GDPR infringement case. Can't believe they've allowed him to keep being their spokesperson on here.

BUT PLEASE DO NOT STOP. If I could have this thread injected directly into my veins I would.

 

[R J H]

you are all jealous, i'm drill up and you are not,i get text up dates about the drill's setting,new blade designs on a mailing list
now on 356 mm ( not 156 hit wrong key)of rain from 22 sept not saying this drill is for every one, just go's well in wet when tractor will travel. my wet
whether insurance payed off for me

 

[D14]

you are all jealous, i'm drill up and you are not,i get text up dates about the drill's setting,new blade designs on a mailing list
now on 156 mm of rain from 22 sept not saying this drill is for every one, just go's well in wet when tractor will travel. my wet
whether insurance payed off for me

Only 156mm. We are over 400mm. Any drill would be drilled up after only 156mm.

 

[farenheit]

you are all jealous, i'm drill up and you are not,i get text up dates about the drill's setting,new blade designs on a mailing list
now on 156 mm of rain from 22 sept not saying this drill is for every one, just go's well in wet when tractor will travel. my wet
whether insurance payed off for me

So you are publicly saying that Triton has a mailing list which shares commercial information to non employees?

 

[Fraserb]

you are all jealous, i'm drill up and you are not,i get text up dates about the drill's setting,new blade designs on a mailing list
now on 156 mm of rain from 22 sept not saying this drill is for every one, just go's well in wet when tractor will travel. my wet
whether insurance payed off for me

Were drilled up and had 156 in 2 weeks never mind 2 months.

 

[T Hectares]

Over 400mm here and drilled up also, 156mm since September 22nd must be the driest area of the UK ???
Maybe you have used Tritons calculator to add up the rainfall..