Weaving GD user thread

We rolled after drilling but this was on cultivated land. I was after a better pre emergent spray efficacy and saw the surface as being a bit loose and cloddy straight after the drill. I guess a none rolled test area would have been a good idea.
 

tr250

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We rolled after drilling but this was on cultivated land. I was after a better pre emergent spray efficacy and saw the surface as being a bit loose and cloddy straight after the drill. I guess a none rolled test area would have been a good idea.
Did you have yours delivered this June I think they took one to near rugby on the same Lorry ours was delivered on
 
I have a 9 m gd
on notill after beans with the hopper half full it crabs down hill a long way the down hill discs pull down more than the uphill discs because we have lower weight per coulter with 54 coulters this would be less with a narrower drill
filled the caddy wheels with water and keep the hopper full but this also adds weight to the tractor
the solution will be a weight on the caddy just in front of the big wheels enough to balance the tool bar when it is up all the extra weight will help with slot closing and consolidation on cultivated fields
my aim is not to cultivate as it does not help with slugs or pre em efficacy
I also found the big disk needed more weight when planting beans in the spring when the ground was drying out but solved it by heaping up the hopper
in a loose cultivated situation the big disc needed much less weight

not had a blocked coulter on but 3 flat tyres had a top link end break when drilling
on the road I ratchet strap the tool bar to the front of the caddy to take the weight of the top link
drilling speed 8 k to 10 km with rolling after at higher speeds

for 2017 enough weight to avoid rolling giving enough weight on the press wheels with only 1 tonne in the hopper

any one weighed their drill and calculated the coulter weight on their set up
 

willy

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Rutland
Ok first frustrating day today. The wheels are picking up the pea haulm and the bunging the wheels and then sledging!!! Flipping frustrating as conditions are pretty good.

So I rang weavings and they said drop the tyre pressure to 12psi to aid in flexing-- no better, then they said try turning the wheels back to fron, will try tomorrow
 
i had this problem with beans and put it down to being too wet
in the same conditions it would be too wet for a big disc

I have come to the conclusion that on sticky land it is best to drill wheat earlier when it is dryer if bg is a problem then drill in the spring and ignore all pressure to drill wheat later slugs will also be worse with later wetter conditions

I am now going to wait for dryer condition later next week or plant in the spring
 
Ok we appear to have fallen at the 1st hurdle. Direct drilled wheat into direct drilled linseed stubble. The linseed followed a cover crop that seemed to have helped the slugs thrive. Linseed was OK. But the wheat is being hammered by the slugs. Seed hollowing, grazing and lots of slug eggs in the slot. We cultivated a large proportion of the field because we are concerned about DD. The cultivated land is fairing far better. The conclusion I have come to is that on the heavy land the slot has been closed better after cultivation as the soil was loose. Light land seems OK.

Is anyone metering slug pellets into the slot along with the seed? Is it simply better to loosen heavy land and over time this will improve?
 

Tractor Boy

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Location
Suffolk
Ok we appear to have fallen at the 1st hurdle. Direct drilled wheat into direct drilled linseed stubble. The linseed followed a cover crop that seemed to have helped the slugs thrive. Linseed was OK. But the wheat is being hammered by the slugs. Seed hollowing, grazing and lots of slug eggs in the slot. We cultivated a large proportion of the field because we are concerned about DD. The cultivated land is fairing far better. The conclusion I have come to is that on the heavy land the slot has been closed better after cultivation as the soil was loose. Light land seems OK.

Is anyone metering slug pellets into the slot along with the seed? Is it simply better to loosen heavy land and over time this will improve?
I'm putting slug pellets down into the slot along with wheat with a 750. First wheat after beans is great, second wheat into trash has been hammered by slugs. All deter dressed. Deter is hopeless against slugs, I found this out a few years ago after Osr. Even had Bayer out to it and they admitted the difference is only about 10% better than control!!!
 

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
We tried deter in normal cultivated drilling and it made no difference to slug control at all. In one field we changed to single purpose half way across and there was 0 difference in slug damage
 
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We have applied a 2nd dose of slug pellets and seem to have overcome the problem. The area in question is a bit thin in places but will not need re drilling.

A few observations now the crop has emerged. Where we cultivated, pressed and rolled before the drill the crops seem to look thinner than where we just cultivated and pressed. Where the low disturbance tine was used followed by the drill, this looks better than the direct drilled area next to it. The proof will be the yield in the end but emergence generally looks good and considering how dry it is we have had very even establishment. We rolled purely to prevent moisture loss on the heavier ground but i think we ended up over doing it.
 

kiwi

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Given all the issues of hair pinning,coulter blockages, sledging on hills and penetration , how have all of you with these drills got on, now that you have more experience with these drills in true direct drill conditions?
 

Alistair Nelson

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Mixed Farmer
Location
E Yorks
Very pleased with ours and found weaving's incredibly helpful. Yes it is a learning curve how to get the best out of it but weaving are with you all the way and afterall look at what you need todo to a jd to make it sing.
 
We are very happy with our GD. Most crops did well, we did have one disaster but that was our doing rather than any fault of the drill. We drilled winter wheat into tilled land and spring wheat into winter tilled and cover cropped land. Both yielded well. We will put slug pellets in the slot with the wheat seed especially after OSR. As mentioned we rolled afterwards which added too many wheelings, added to Avadex application wheelings. This year we have fitted an avadex applicator to the drill and with probably not roll after the drill.

The failure was linseed, drilled too early along with a bit too deep and a lot of slugs. Showed promise early on but ultimately should have been killed off. But as stated the drill was not at fault.
 

kiwi

Member
Thanks for your replies. How wet a soil condition will it handle.? With hoe coulter we can drill as long as the soil is not building up on the press wheel . This has been especially so this wet spring and having to lower the press wheel tyre pressure to get flexing.
The weaving looks to handle straw well in the videos without to much hair pinning, but their was one post of difficulty in pea hulm so how was that overcome?
 

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