You’ll be fine in the dry, you’ll struggle when it gets wet
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Perhaps that would make me wait for good conditions before I get the drill out!
In late October you might struggle
Very true, however I am slowly bringing in more spring break crop which will hopefully shorten the time needed in the autumn. I might ask if its possible to have another demo, this time on my own tractor, although I suspect that this might be too much hassle for them.
yellow belly
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if you use a 6 m instead of a 4.8 you can aford to do more acres in the optimum conditions
i pull a 9 m with a t7260
it has to work on hills drilling beans when the hopper is full
travelling at 8 k instead of 11 k is always better
less wheelings and less turns
Evening, I’m new to the forum so bear with me. We have been claydon drilling for 8-10 years and think we are moving on to a GD. We are on some heavy ground but over the years it’s improved as we are mainly beef so there’s plenty of fym and a good rotation. We have been given the choice of airless or pneumatic press wheels. Would either be better if the ground gets sticky? Thanks Ed
Pulling a Caddy GD 6m with 230hp, 1500 rpm and doesn't know its there ( 1st year with it ) @ 6pkh pretty sure you'd be ok with 180hp, if I had a free
flow return on the 130hp tractor I'd try that out of curiosity. I also carry up to 1600 litre of liquid fert as well, so quite a lump when the seed carts full as well, but had no issues. Didn't chose the 230hp for the job, was the tractor I had.Go airless
Don't think airless clean as well when its sticky, just a thought
Hmm I’m not to sure, In very sticky heavy ground I’ve had tyres stop turning as they’ve licked that much. I have a lot of trouble with flat tyres so I would go solid.
I may be wrong, usually am
If punctures are an issue then airless
yellow belly
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Go airless
if it is too sticky you should not be drilling get the widest drill you can stretch to cost per acre is not a lot different
discs wear on the basis of how many miles they go
when it is hard and dry going slower is much better in terms of depth but also wear on discs and bearings
these are the best conditions for notill ,when it is very dry the days are also longer
damp nights can stop drilling in October where there is no green
Ruston3w
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Well I have learnt a lesson on the GD (3m) mounted- we bought their demonstrator a couple of years ago to drill spring crops (better depth control than the simtech) and for reduced disturbance than the simtech where we have grass. I got tempted to send it off drilling cover crops as I can put it behind a smaller tractor we had on sensible wheels whilst my "drilling" tractor was stuck on row-crops lifting spuds.
We are mostly sand/gravel with a lot of small stone, the discs were worn (I expect you boys on here probably wore them out doing demos) and pivot bushes were a bit sloppy but now they are all for the bin.
Mostly we were running about 8kmh, not silly, and obviously only radish/forage rape sort of depth.
I guess it's back to the simtech for drilling next August, this has been an expensive lesson.
For those folks who have fitted their worn large disc back as the new inner disc with a new opener, how do they look with the remains of the cutaway still visible? We have enough trouble now with tiny stones lodging against the disc frame and stopping the discs, even with fine-tuning the bearing shims.
Richard.
We are mostly sand/gravel with a lot of small stone, the discs were worn (I expect you boys on here probably wore them out doing demos) and pivot bushes were a bit sloppy but now they are all for the bin.
Mostly we were running about 8kmh, not silly, and obviously only radish/forage rape sort of depth.
I guess it's back to the simtech for drilling next August, this has been an expensive lesson.
For those folks who have fitted their worn large disc back as the new inner disc with a new opener, how do they look with the remains of the cutaway still visible? We have enough trouble now with tiny stones lodging against the disc frame and stopping the discs, even with fine-tuning the bearing shims.
Richard.
have the cover crops not come then? Why is it an expensive mistake cost of parts or crops not performing?
Ruston3w
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Sorry, yes cost of parts. We drilled around 350 acres when it was quite hard , but not before we had some rain, and it really did some damage. Crops look fine. We did wear the simtech discs and break the spacer bushes they have between each pair of discs but to nothing like this level. I tried lifting the simtech discs out of work but barley straw particularly was a problem if the discs didn't cut a slot through it, possibly the disc gang could come off altogether....
You reckon? We had two identical 200hp tractors up until July this year, one on 20.8r42, the other on 620/70r42.
The one on the 20.8's would run rings round it's mate when it came to putting the power down, it's superb. The one on the wider boots didn't cut in as much in soft going, but would lose traction far quicker.
The masters of drilling in the wet (team triton) would advocate at least 100hp/m, and tracks.
Personally? I'd go for the widest mounted GD you could - so you can at least achieve some weight transfer, and get yourself out of the poop when everything grinds to a halt. On tyres just wide enough to hold you up.
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I‘m new to GD drilling and deliberately went straight to it because of its absolute minimal disturbance. Hence minimal BG disturbance.
Some of my ground is quite stony, but hasn’t effected the drill in any way. Mine has the conventional air filled tyres on it.
The biggest lesson I have leaned is that we need to drill 2 weeks earlier in the autumn. For me this will mean wheat going in in Mid Sept, which usually will mean drilling in very good conditions.
I like this idea A LOT!
Some of my ground is quite stony, but hasn’t effected the drill in any way. Mine has the conventional air filled tyres on it.
The biggest lesson I have leaned is that we need to drill 2 weeks earlier in the autumn. For me this will mean wheat going in in Mid Sept, which usually will mean drilling in very good conditions.
I like this idea A LOT!