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- NSW, Newstralya
@Bagshot, at 3 meters, what is a sensible area to get drilled a day ?I've done about 400 ha with my 3m now.
The discs are like razors now, much sharper than new.
I've been doing 40 acres in a short ish day.@Bagshot, at 3 meters, what is a sensible area to get drilled a day ?
You use to use a kv 6 meter machine I believe, which can fair eat the area.
Max flow through a single half inch spool valve is about 100 L/min, so without the fan you can use all the tractors hydraulic power lifting the drill.We are using a case puma 155 which is supposed to have 100 litres per minute.
Thank you , and any initial findings/thinking around blackgrass emergence ?I've been doing 40 acres in a short ish day.
In the winter wheat it's very difficult to find any, even in known areas.Thank you , and any initial findings/thinking around blackgrass emergence ?
Any freshly shed seed seems relatively easy to get with pre ems, any deep seed in the soil is the problem as it still comes up for years after
The current Puma 150 can be speced with up to 160 l/min hydraulics. Even 100 L/min is a far cry from where tractors used to be, I use a drill with hydraulic fan on a 70 L/min CCLS tractor quite happily. The only time its been a problem was when I used a MF2680 to finish a field which only had a 55 L/min gear pump open center hydraulics and I could hear the fan speed drop every time I turned the steering wheel.Yep that explains it well and you have to wonder about design of the system of hydraulics, if a reasonable horsepower tractor can't maximise the functions of the drill on the GD. What you are saying is that a flow rate of 140 l/min would be needed to maximise the lifting while maintaining airflow.?
What hydraulic flow rate requirement do operators of the 4.8 metre drills have on their tractors?
We have just received our 4.8 metre drill and are finding it easy to pull but having trouble with lifting the drill up and down while the fan is operating. The up and down Rams go 50 percent slower when the fan is running. Have all spool valves at 100 percent except the fan.
Thank you.In the winter wheat it's very difficult to find any, even in known areas.
The winter beans are clean and growing like bloody hell, I'd hoped for less vigorous haulm growth, doesn't look like that's happening.
The osr is pretty good, but in the worst two fields there's a very low levelof bg, the initial flush was taken care of well by centurion max, followed by propyzamide, possibly a bit early with hindsight, then there's been another flush come from deeper which we applied crawler but I don't think there's been enough rain since to make it work properly.
Won't know till harvest really now.
It's going wheat next and will get belt and braces.
Any freshly shed seed seems relatively easy to get with pre ems, any deep seed in the soil is the problem as it still comes up for years after