some in places, haven't had any real problems, we slow down, and just let the drill trickle through, the proof will be in the spring, when we see how thick the leys are. Having used contractors for several years we have been disappointed with leys, not to blame the contractors, but they want the quickest in and out time, and perhaps ground worked a bit shallow, or not firm enough, and of course cross drilling is £30 acre, and by the time you have (or paid) to plough and work, cost of grass seed etc, its got expensive. We started to roll plough ground before power harrow, and noted an improvement in 'take', and to go back to doing the lot ourselves was daunting !! Rolling behind the vaderstat, we have been surprised at how firm it is, normally you can see your tractor wheel marks behind the roller, not any more. We will have 35 acres of hybred rye to go in yet, we will see how it works then. So far, we are like kids with a new toy, and with careful use of a sward lifter, to break any pan, its going to alter the mathamatics of reseeding here, and will enable us to 'top' up thin grass, at our convenience, and a lot cheaper.
Shame it wasn’t a 4m !
we could only afford a 3m, because they are not wide enough for you arable boys !!
As long as it does what you need , we can only pull 4m up our hills!
really slowed up on ours, ours is 3m, apparently arable boys think they are to small, the field of grass sown last week, just showing, very even, and looks promising. One thing we have really noticed, is how accurate you can get, with seed, seedlings are really evenly spaced, i expect you can see i'm really pleased with it. If it works out like we hope, it is going to blow a massive hole in our reseeding costs, basically, grass seed, deisel, and a bit of time ! Also, anything looking thin, we can just whip over at 1/2 rate seed, at our conveinence.
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