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I will get them in morningCan you take a close up Photo of how the broadcaster outlets are mounted Next time your near the machine. Thank you looks a tidy setup?
thanks
Alistair.
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I will get them in morningCan you take a close up Photo of how the broadcaster outlets are mounted Next time your near the machine. Thank you looks a tidy setup?
thanks
Alistair.
What Hp are you pulling that withGot set up today with new drill doing cover crops what a fantastic job it doing should have had one before and one of the compulsory dog photo
Thank you.I will get them in morning
It’s 165hp on it limits when it comes to a bankWhat Hp are you pulling that with
167mm row spacingLooks wide row spacing
Are you moving away from a GD or upgraded? Do you use the drill on any rolling hills? What is it like for crabbing on hillsides?Sell my 3m Trailed GD if anyone’s interested. https://www.classifieds.farm/listing/15379/Weaving-GD3000.html
Honestly, it’s a very well built drill and a good design. We’ve encountered some difficulties with crabbing (on rolling hills) and inconsistent seed depth (on stony ground), I think this is because we’ve jumped into disc drilled no till straight from a plough/min-till system and I don’t think our soils are ready for this drill yet, I’m also having doubts about how well any no-till disc drill can cope with our shallow stony Cotswold brash. So we’ve decide to take a step back and look at some direct tine drills.Are you moving away from a GD or upgraded? Do you use the drill on any rolling hills? What is it like for crabbing on hillsides?
Without wanting to detract too much from the purpose of this thread and what I believe is the brilliant GD drill, I completely understand your opinion as it is the exact same position I find myself in, what tine drills do you like the look of at the moment? My concern with tine drills is them pulling stones up in the early years, hopefully reduced forward speed can mitigate this, I'm on deep sandy loam with quite a lot of stone (small stone that I keep getting told will create havoc with a disc opener... so a different scenario to brash land but interesting to discuss opinions all the sameHonestly, it’s a very well built drill and a good design. We’ve encountered some difficulties with crabbing (on rolling hills) and inconsistent seed depth (on stony ground), I think this is because we’ve jumped into disc drilled no till straight from a plough/min-till system and I don’t think our soils are ready for this drill yet, I’m also having doubts about how well any no-till disc drill can cope with our shallow stony Cotswold brash. So we’ve decide to take a step back and look at some direct tine drills.
We have had no issue with stones getting in the discs and/or stalling the discs.Without wanting to detract too much from the purpose of this thread and what I believe is the brilliant GD drill, I completely understand your opinion as it is the exact same position I find myself in, what tine drills do you like the look of at the moment? My concern with tine drills is them pulling stones up in the early years, hopefully reduced forward speed can mitigate this, I'm on deep sandy loam with quite a lot of stone (small stone that I keep getting told will create havoc with a disc opener... so a different scenario to brash land but interesting to discuss opinions all the same
You have obviously a lot of experience now with the weaving gd so how have you got on setting depth without being to deep or to shallow and putting seed on the top?I find in brash field going slower is the only option
more weight has no benefit
I have less than 10% of this soil type so can put up with slower work rather than a separate drill
if I was all brash i would have a narrow knife coulter dale or similar
I do also keep travel speeds down for more accurate seed placement same horse power but one and half times the width
with regards to wear you do 1.5 times the area before changing discs bearings aLao last a lot longer
when we had a 4 m moore at 14 km the discs and bearing got warm in hard dry conditions
When they came to demo drill I thought there was some seed left on the surface but in hindsight they new what they were doing so it takes some getting used toall disc drills throw some seed Out of the slot especially at high speed and with a damp disc
if you seed some seed on the top setting the depth deeper then puts most of the seed too deep
with small seeds the majority can be hard to find In the seed trench coloured seed helps with some dressed seed
with beans big seed needs a lot of care to get it in deep enough without taking all the weight off the press wheel
and leaving an open slot
In a dry spring Winter cover crops And a layer of straw Help prevent the Top 2 inches of soil drying out too much
spring drilling early is not essential or desirable in a wet spring Reducing weed germination by later drilling has big benefits
I have a 9 m drill (controlled traffic) which with small seed crops or only 1 tonne of seed in the hopper ( end of a variety ) the weight on the press wheel has been not high enough even with Water in the drill wheels
this spring we added 3 tonnes of weight For the small seeded crops
this is a lot less of a problem with a 6m or less drill
we are now looking at ballasting
the latest gd drill with the coulters under the hopper and the airless tyres increase weight per coulter
As Posted above with brashy soils slower speeds allow the coulter to keep depth this does not slow overall drilling capacity because we can start this field a few days earlier than the heavy land we have often have to wait for the heavy land to be dry enough
many Of the wide drills I see In the usa Australia ect do not go that fast
fast drilling in the uk was used because we cultivated and had narrow drills for road Access
You will need to get the gps from the tractor as the drill isn't accurate enough for vary rate.Hi looking at doing variable seed rate with gd drill (not isobus) using soyl maps what do I need to do to acive . Drill control box is an Artemis 8000 tractor is jd 155r with 4600 screen gen 4 with premium activation any thoughts thankyou