Weaving GD user thread

[Wombat]

Do you get marketing rights? https://www.weavingmachinery.net/drills/mounted-GD-drill

 

[kiwi]

Just posting some thoughts after first year with a GD. Mostly that very low desturbance alone won't ensure great weed control.

I agree with your statement.
While it has less disturbance visibly afterwards the moment of soil up and then down is enough to initiate a weed strike.
My other find is that it will hairpin like any other disc drill in high straw loadings.

 

[clbarclay]

I think it is more that seeds on the soil can still grow without any man made disturbance.

 

[jack6480]

I think it is more that seeds on the soil can still grow without any man made disturbance.

I don’t see why this a problem?

 

[Case290]

Which bearings ? For the discs are best or last the longest I’ve used some which haven’t done very well 60 acres & not just one

 

[jack6480]

Which bearings ? For the discs are best or last the longest I’ve used some which haven’t done very well 60 acres & not just one

Excuse me?

 

[Badshot]

As far as I know there is only the peer bearings weavings supply.

 

[Case290]

I’ve tried some other ones there shocking wast of time basically the 20 I changed need redoing if I can find the box I can say which ones not to use .
Standard trip to field unfinished breakdown. Weekend can’t get parts.

 

[Case290]

Py3 ZEN don’t bother with them they won’t last 5 minutes.

 

[Badshot]

Py3 ZEN don’t bother with them they won’t last 5 minutes.

Where do they fit?

The peer ones are a disc/hub assembly.

 

[Case290]

Y

 

[clbarclay]

I don’t see why this a problem?

You might if I had posted pics of some of my crops. Apart from the spring barley and oats, I've had a very poor year for weed control, despite it all being late-ish spring planted and for most of it, using possibly the lowest disturbance drill there is.

 

[jack6480]

did you just spray off and use no pre em??

 

[Adeptandy]

You might if I had posted pics of some of my crops. Apart from the spring barley and oats, I've had a very poor year for weed control, despite it all being late-ish spring planted and for most of it, using possibly the lowest disturbance drill there is.

Is it the drill or the time of drilling ?
I had my first spring of DD with a Moore Unidrill and a demo of a Weaving GD. I compared this to my normal establishment with the Vaderstad. All crops were poor, but I did notice that anything DD'd where there was heavy cover crop of a place that laid wet over winter the Spring crop was a lot better than where there was bare earth showing. I drilled to late, the land dried far quicker than I anticipated. S Barley with the Vaddy 1t/a, Moore Unidrill 1.25t/a, GD drilled 7 days later 0.75t/a. Interstingly the Vaddy had the best chance as was the first drilled, but cultivations dried the soil, Moore had the best chance as it drilled into more thick cover than the GD. I did leave the worst field for the GD, so not suprised it struggled to perform, very little cover and soil moisture was dropping fast. I did note that all the DD drilled germinated evenly, the Vaddy was more suseptible to drying out and was patchy in emergence. So rubbish yields, but an interesting lesson learnt.

 

[Case290]

To dry even when you saved the moisture by direct drilling.

 

[Two Tone]

From the ridiculous to the sublime!
Or is it the other way round?

I’m in transition to going away from ploughing to DD, but some of my land needed ploughing one more time

Then followed by the Combi

But today I took it off

And put this on and used it.

Hopefully it is moving from the ridiculous to the sublime and not the other way round!

I’d like to thank and credit the following for all their help and advice:
Simon Weaving
Ed Pocock (Weaving Machinery)
James Warnes (@Warnesworth) Soil First Farming.

 

[YELROM]

why did the field need ploughing one more time?

 

[Two Tone]

why did the field need ploughing one more time?

Several reasons all adding up to ploughing some of my land one more time (though I wouldn’t be afraid to do it again if needed):
Levelling the fields and getting the headland furrows on the very edge of the fields.
Level of Blackgrass requiring the seed to be buried.
I’m more cautious about DD’ing Winter Barley as opposed to Wheat.
Sorting out one or two Compaction problems.

I’m very keen to go all DD and I favour the GD drill because it is the least most Soil surface disturbance drill I know of. However I don’t regard DD as a religion and will remain flexible to going back to the plough where and whenever I think it will work best when necesscary.

I reckon I am saving at least £50/acre by DD or GD’ing.
I also believe that ELMS will pay us at least another £50/acre to DD instead of ploughing. But we are not quite there yet!

 

[clbarclay]

did you just spray off and use no pre em??

I would have to check, but pretty sure no pre EMS this year. The worst weed problems though we're with the later drilled fields which really suffered from not enough moisture after drilling to get the crop established well.

Regards the moisture, fields which were left with long stubbles at last harvest definitely had the advantage here this spring. Unfortunately I have had to leave short stubbles on most fields this year. At least everything got chopped though, including the linseed.

 

[jack6480]

are these ready for a change would you say